Santosh Panvalkar, Mba Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Responsible for technology and platform transformation, formation, direction, and governance of IT vision & strategy, and stewardship of enterprise-wide systems and technology solutions. Orchestrated strategic alignment, planning, and innovation to build a collaborative culture for effective and efficient management of U$20M+ technology division consisting of 70+ staff to consistently deliver business expectation covering new products, business process optimization, and Data & Analytics modernizations across the organization that add value to the business capability together with cost reduction and enhanced customer experience.• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business needs and automation opportunities. Evaluated and prioritized needs into strategic planning, budget, and intake processes to build a continuous pipeline for critical use case execution and accelerated business value realization.• As a member of executive leadership team, instrumental in leading regular ideation sessions with diverse group of senior business and IT stakeholders for continuous innovation.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Championed direction, governance, and implementation of data strategy and stewardship of enterprise-wide core banking and payment platforms for all lines of business. Alongside CIO and CDO, led effective management of data functions, including U$100M+ technology division, to meet business demands covering data management, process streamlining, and data utilization across transformational and critical initiatives. • Spearheaded adoption of big data / cloud by transforming enterprise data warehouse on Google Cloud. Applied innovation techniques to leverage ML / AI capabilities on Google Cloud Platform.• Coordinated with business to devise a roadmap to transform business intelligence (BI) and analytics, management information (MI) environments, and capability to GCP. • Established data architecture and engineering practice to introduce and govern data lineage, data quality, reference architecture for data ingestion to cloud, trusted source and data control frameworks, and standardization of data assets and data dictionary. • Executed compliance initiatives: BASEL II / III, BCBS 239, OSFI and FINTRAC, and GDPR. • Pioneered adoption of Agile & DevOps.• Developed high-performing teams of 300+ resources. • Gained global experience through international secondments.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Handpicked as top-performing Executive and seconded to HSBC Technology Centre in Pune, India on ex-pat terms. Built IT team of 150+. Provided leadership and management of all IT functions with direct budget and P&L responsibility of U$10M+.• Successfully developed/deployed innovative wealth and transactional FX product systems within HSBC global landscape.• Instrumental in building a highly engaged team. Recognized for identifying key talent to implement succession planning. • Migrated entire program to be executed from an offshore location, resulting in annual sustainable cost savings of U$2M+.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Led multi-year payment modernization program across HSBC global landscape. Transformed and migrated legacy payment systems, including billing and liquidity systems, to vendor platforms interfacing with customer and staff-facing OMNI channels. • Headed IT Product and Program Management and Business Consulting of payments portfolio with annual budget of U$10M+. Formalized area technology plan and roadmap. • Chaired business prioritization, requirements management, gap and impact analysis, change management, and design authority boards by applying precise articulation skills.• Oversaw a team of BA’s and Program Managers, and influenced 90+ Development and QA staff onshore and offshore. • Demonstrated extensive global knowledge of domestic and cross-border payments and collections (direct debits). Payment clearing frameworks included ACH and RTGS. Payment compliance included SWIFT, PSD, and SEPA. • Championed program deployment in 52 countries via a structured 3-year rollout plan. Formulated a standard deployment methodology and toolkit that provided an accelerated rollout pattern.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Oversaw design, development, and implementation of Global Core Banking and Payments Platforms, AML, Risk, Finance, and Sanction screening applications across multiple HSBC locations globally.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Gradute In Business In Americas (Americas Mba), Business Management, Stratergy, Innivation, Corporate Governance, Ventures, And M&A

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Certified Program & Project Management

Certified Business Analyst