Responsible for the Banks, Broker Dealers, and Speciality Finance segments for International Corporate Bank Americas.- Leading a dedicated team running multiple portfolios of financial institutions with 450+% growth over the last two years through focussed delivery of client requirements.- Direct client coverage of broad collection of high priority customers focussed on clearing, payments, FX, credit and fund mobilization, along with coverage integration for investment banking relationships.- Building the Specialty Finance portfolio through trans-Atlantic partnership, strategic collaborations, mining wallet share and winning new business mandates across products and services.-Actively in-charge of complete risk ownership as bank's first line of defense and improving risk mitigation and oversight controls for the New York branch.

Leading a dedicated team managing a portfolio of financial institutions (US regional banks, international banks and hedge funds) for achievement of revenue targets through consistent sales execution and risk management • Winning sales bids and building relationships with customers by working in a coordinated manner with global sales teams, product, risk management and operations teams and bringing strategic thought to exceed customer expectations across a range of products & services and delivering strong return on equity.• Exceeding targets on new liquidity strategy and generating new deposit pools and opportunities by implementing process changes while delivering on regulatory framework’s requirements with regular positive contributory interactions with regulators, monitors, consultants and auditors.• Successfully delivering cross-functional projects for regulatory compliance while maintaining complete risk ownership as the bank’s first line of defense with focus on Financial Crime Risk, Regulatory Compliance and Credit Oversight.• Building awareness of the market trends and advocating to align processes to deliver on the clients’ need.• Contributing proactively to various internal bank-wide risk committees for effective risk mitigation, governance and oversight controls to ensure positive results on the broader financial institution portfolio.

Key person responsible for ensuring that the Correspondent Banking offering is in line with the industry best practices and governance benchmarks and ensuring the underlying processes and policies are fit-for-purpose.• Created from scratch and oversaw the bank’s global and regional Correspondent Banking governance forums to enable executive oversight of the Correspondent Banking business with the objective of leading the way in regulatory and Financial Crime risk management.• Ran the Correspondent Banking Project Steering Group for successful delivery of the work-streams under the Correspondent Banking Action Plan, part of the bank’s Financial Crime Risk Mitigation Program.• Satisfactorily synchronizing responses to the regulatory requirements and expectations around Financial Crime Risk in Correspondent Banking, including S166 Skilled Person Review and Monitor Engagement.• Worked with the global sales teams and built strategic insights and awareness, developing an understanding of industry and clients impacting the bank’s risks. • Delivering close to 100 academies and training seminars to clients & counterparties through the ‘De-risking through Education’ initiative on financial crime compliance standards and becoming their trusted advisory on financial crime risk mitigation.

Building relationships with global multilateral & bilateral institutions, sovereign agencies and non-government organizations in a consultative & solution-oriented manner, in areas of investment management, risk management, capital markets, funds deployment and impact assessment, based on a keen understanding of investment aid flow.• Originated multiple deals and generated flourishing business opportunities with double digit growth numbers every year by covering the clients’ vast global network of regional reporting structures.• Achieved structured bespoke solutions with international Development Financial Institutions aimed at economic relief to the developing markets, while providing balance sheet management, risk mitigation and returns enhancement, during the Great Financial Crisis. These deals won acclaim and international awards: Best Partner Bank for Innovative Solutions – awarded by the World Bank  Best Trade Finance Deal for 2009 – awarded by Finance Asia, GTR & Trade Finance  Best Trade Finance Deal for 2010 – awarded by Trade Finance  Best Deal for Year 2013 – awarded by Trade Finance • Accomplished advocacy and influenced policy makers in areas of governance, sanctions, credit treatment and financial inclusion.

Led teams managing portfolios of domestic & international investment banks, broker-dealers, mutual fund houses and insurance companies in India to generate revenues across a range of products and services including structuring financial markets products, demonstrating team management skills and strong credit aptitude, including the ability to manage complex relationships across myriad types of counterparties and clients and showing motivation and dynamism in delivering results.

Managed a portfolio of International Multilateral, Bilateral Institutions and International Non-Government Organisations based in India to assist in delivering their development mandates in India and the South Asia region by developing a deep understanding of the civil society landscape in India.

Managed a Premier Banking portfolio and servicing of High Net-worth customers of all their banking needs by sourcing of various assets and liabilities products of the bank’s Retail segment, and organization of promotional activities to push sales of assets and liabilities products of the bank.