Ravishankar Radhakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ga, Us

• Provided executive leadership and direction in a newly structured role with core responsibilities for managing the Enterprise Cloud platform, with four direct reports supporting 45 employees and consultants.• Served as Chair of the Global Architecture Council, which was set up to manage global enterprise architecture processes and global strategy for all subsidiaries; Developed IT asset management policy and open source software use policy. • Co-chair, Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) team, responsible for ransomware strategy and served as a member of US Security, a global entity that decides all security policies.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• In 2023, initiated concentrated efforts aimed at cost savings, including negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts with major global enterprise IT vendors such as Microsoft and Amazon.

• Joined AFLAC as one of the early employees of the Investments Technology Division with initial responsibility for the Risk Management platform, and then took full responsibility in January 2016 for Global Investments Technology. Managed the IT team of 35 employees that supported global asset management. • Ran vendor selection process for Investment Research and Risk Management platforms, negotiated contracts with selected vendors, and rolled out new systems in May 2014 along with Aladdin platform implementation. • Created a multi-year roadmap for Investments technology and got the buy-in from senior management. • Identified/reduced inefficiencies in using market data and vendor systems, realizing savings in vendor fees. • Developed a spin-off of the asset management division and integration with several external investment managers to realize the asset diversification strategy. • Interfaced with external and internal auditors and established compliance with regulatory requirements for public cloud hosting of Investment Systems.• Initiated a digital strategy for the entire firm to introduce robotic automation.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Created cloud strategy for Aflac and Cloud Center of Excellence for the migration of all the investments systems to a private cloud infrastructure that improved resiliency and recovery time objective, achieving cost savings of 60%. Enhanced support for the platform to 24x7 by setting up an offshore support team. • Saved multi-million dollars in potential tax overpayment by implementing a robotic solution for validating state tax payments for the insurance company.• Provided key leadership in 2017 for the divesture of Aflac in US and Japan regions, establishing the creation of AFLAC Life Insurance Japan, AFLAC US Insurance, and US and Japan Asset Management companies; extended the US IT infrastructure to Japan to establish support for global entities.

New York, New York, Us

Re-joined Citi in 2008 to lead the prime finance platform services and was given additional responsibility to lead the newly formed Client Facing Technology Group that covers portal, trade handling, asset servicing and connectivity services for prime finance (3/2009). • In 2010, became the Chief Strategist and architect and took over core prime foundational services, and client reporting (2010) with the added responsibility for prime workstation group (2011).• Assumed leadership for the international prime trade and custody processing systems in 2012 and managed a department of 140 people with a $25M budget. • Created a common connectivity strategy for Prime and established a single entry point for cross-asset clients for portal and electronic frontiers. • Delivered Corporate Action self-service for PB and synthetic PB clients. • Served as chief architect and strategist for Prime Finance and was a member of ICG Technology Council for markets and the markets e-commerce committee representing Prime Finance. • Delivered the Client Portal in Citi velocity and implemented a strategy to deliver client reporting for all clearing businesses on a single portal, along with integrated central clearing reporting capabilities. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Stabilized and improved the SLAs for client reporting deliveries and created four four-hour SLA cushion. • Reengineered the trade handling platform for Prime and created a plan to do a front-to-back implementation as part of a major firm-wide back-office outsourcing initiative.

Us

• Oversaw Winter Group’s information technology architecture and advised senior management on IT strategy with responsibility for trading, inventory, and middle office solutions. • Re-architected the firm’s trading and inventory application suite to scale up to the demands of the growing business. • Spearheaded implementation of an automated underwriting (rules-based) system as a private label offering and created a blueprint for leveraging the rule engine in other areas.

New York, New York, Us

• Assumed this position as a result of the Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney merger and was promoted to First Vice President in 1999 and to Senior Vice President in 2000. Grew from managing a team of 14 to managing a team of 80 with six direct reports. • Responsible for global securities lending and equity prime brokerage systems, including transition management, CRM, risk management, and cross-product margining applications. Had the additional responsibility of building a swap trading platform for the company to expand the desk’s structured finance business. • Served on several corporate technology committees involving technology management, project management, IT risk management, and architecture. • Responsible for creating and managing MATRIX, Citigroup's global securities lending platform. MATRIX supported about 400 users in front-office trading, middle-office operations, regulatory control, financial control, treasury, and trade support for various trading desks. • Devised breakthrough approaches in inter-company booking and short interest allocation and maximized profitability for the desk. Implemented EQUAL, the short interest allocator for the firm, and the P&L system for the Securities Lending desk. • Implemented a real-time inventory system for the global platform, linked to over 100 availability sources, and enabled a real-time position match system for doing electronic locates.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Created a unique platform in the securities lending industry by consolidating six systems, brought together by the merger of Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney, into an integrated suite that covers end-to-end processing of securities lending transactions. Streamlined business flows by offering localized screens, reports, and websites for Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Sydney by implementing enhancements to meet local regulatory needs.

New York, New York, Us

• Delivered solutions for Fixed Income Institutional Sales Team, Short Term CP Trading Desk, and Mortgage Research group, managing common infrastructure services for fixed income systems.

New York, New York, Us

• Responsible for Fixed Income Risk Management (FIRM), a risk management system for Corporate, Government and Mortgage trading desks at Smith Barney. The system had sector-level risk management, position tracking, and fed trades to back-office systems for booking and processing.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science & Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Physics