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Silverlake AxisChief Technology and Product Officer
Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2024Singapore• Define vision and strategy for Silverlake Axis, a leading banking product and services company in ASEAN • SGX Key Management Person
• Be the ‘Face of Silverlake Axis’ and speak at external events – Popular Business TV channels, IDC, AWS, MS, Banking Forums, etc
• Work with client representatives to ideate, workshop and define capabilities to be developed in the future. Refine and shortlist capabilities through a combination of data driven analysis, and leadership intuition. Finally work with Sales to prioritise capabilities, to create a publicly shareable product roadmap.
• Trial new ideas and product features with friendly clients, to ensure that beta-versions of product match client’s expectations, before roll-out. • Lead the build of the new Data and AI platform, and take use-case to clients so to refine the models
• Lead Silverlake’s cross-functional Product teams (approx. 400) to evolve Silverlake’s cloud native SaaS next generation core banking (and Artificial Intelligence) solution Möbius, to enable Silverlake to run a managed service on behalf of a bank. • Re-organise the Product team to become domain aligned, fully introduce shift-left DevSecOps, automated integration, and make the platform multi-tenant to simultaneously host hundreds of banks to get economies of scale and produce a cheap platform so Silverlake Axis can enter a completely new market – Unbanked and Under-banked customers, which is approximately 40% of ASEAN.
• Work with Sales to identify sweet spot for Product suitability in each market and segment, and provide a product suitability matrix (‘Customer-right-fit’) to assist Sales, so there is clarity on exactly what product should be sold to which customer, and so avoid internal competition.
• Be at critical Sales meetings to assist in closing the deal – typically with big clients
• Hire / poach exceptional talent
Oliver WymanFinancial Services Technology Partner
Nov. 2020 - Oct. 2022SingaporeArchitect behind COSMIC - Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Information & Cases (COSMIC)
KPMG SingaporeHead of Financial Services Technology Advisory
May. 2018 - Nov. 2020SingaporeResponsible for Technology Advisory practice across all sectors(mostly on Banking and Insurance) in Singapore and Indonesia. Accountable for strategy, management and performance for Technology driven projects. Technology services offered cover enterprise architecture, strategy, effectiveness, cost reduction and agility through cloud technologies and program delivery. Typical projects cover multi-year and multiple services at the same time. Current focus is on business development and growth of the analytics, cloud and DevOps.
Icon Solutions (UK) LtdPrincipal Architect at HSBC
Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2018London, United KingdomEnterprise Architect for HSBC Corporate Bank (CMB). Defining the IT strategy, road map, high level costs and future state architecture for the conversion from monolithic legacy to micro service based architecture. Future state to be Digital, DevOps, Public Cloud with OpenBank API. The work moves the Corporate bank to massively simplify the current state by using STP, AI, Robotics and Analytics resulting in very significant FTE reduction in Operations. Global Architect for Digital Transformation of Corporate Merchant Bank. Responsible for the conversion of legacy systems to RESTful microservices. Philip progresses the platform with the introduction of DevOps and Agile releases. Budget $2BN. Global Solutions/Enterprise Architect for Financial Crime Compliance. Responsible for the solution design of the global implementation of the Name Screening program. Philip lead and created the design with other architects and pushed the solution through the architectural review process from inception to sign off. Philip had to submit the solution design to the Monitor, and other global regulatory bodies for acceptance. Philip had to lead the aggregation, and name screening of 280 source system, into a central data repository, so all HSBC customers would be screened every day (circa 220 million customers). Philip was the design authority over the program with a budget $150million over 3 years.
Bank of AmericaHead of EMEA Wealth Management at Bank of America (CTO)
Jan. 2011 - Apr. 2014London• Accountable for$ 30 MM annual spend with multi-year programs
• Accountable for all aspects of delivery from inception to delivery into production (concept to cash)
• Accountable for production support and ensuring that SLA internally and externally are adhered to
• Put in place a platform improvement program to reduce bottom line costs and reduce risk profile • Team lead of approx 45 total staff (20 permanent staff, 12 contractors and resource pool 10-20 vendor resources). Team located in London, Geneva, Mumbai and Chennai
• Manage all aspects of vendor management from contract renegotiation, adherence to SLAs and vendor feedback
• Internally re-aligned software development lifecycle processes with other technology teams and operations to ensure a consistent approach resulting in a higher quality standards and fewer defects entering into production and less rework
• Enforced the adherence of architectural standards to ensure that deliverables onto the platform aligned to the strategic vision to reduce platform cost and risk
• Put in place forum between Operations and Technology to ensure that business change was correctly communicated and co-ordinated to minimise cross programme re-work
• Turned around an underperforming team through working on root cause of morale issues
• Collaborated with other technology teams and Operations to create a strategy document and future state target architecture
• Work with architecture to ensure on going simplification and modernisation of the platform
• Protagonist across Technology and Operations for issue resolution and process improvement and pushing forward the EMEA regionalisation programme of single process with local specialisation
Rule FinancialProject / Programme Manager
Sep. 2008 - Mar. 2011• Programme managed new portfolio risk platform from concept to production for front office Deutsche Bank Prime Brokerage for OTC and ETD: including client migration, on-boarding of new clients, legacy system decommissioning, project managing Deutsche Bank project managers and teams, business process and technology alignment. • Project managed the conversion of the prototype to a fully production ready system using Agile methodology.
• Project managed the development team of the Deutsche Bank Prime Brokerage portfolio credit risk platform using Agile. The project had been attempted by Deutsche Bank three times before and had failed on each attempt. Liaised with eleven different business groups and brokered a solution capable supporting the business needs. Worked with COO and IT directors, Sales and Traders to drive out acceptable solution.
• Led the technology alignment and business vision strategy for global mobile payment provider. Worked with COO, CEO and Marketing director to drive out acceptable solution.
• Led the development of a “future state” systems architecture for a rapidly growing mobile payments provider. The client had an exciting new vision for its business model and its business growth. This needed to be underpinned by an extensible and flexible architecture capable of supporting new products, new services and rapid growth in customer and transaction volumes. The project included an assessment of those aspects of the current infrastructure to be carried forward and which elements need to be developed or acquired. The assignment recommended a systems architecture to be the basis for business growth. Worked with the CTO to drive out an acceptable solution
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UBS Investment BankProject / Programme Manager
Oct. 2006 - May. 2008• Point of contact between IT Equities and business for change covering Front Office, Operations, Global1, Legal, Tax, Finance, Sub Ledger, Audit and Transaction Reporting Project size typically 3-6 months but some projects over 12 months.
• The types of changes covered new project requests for example a high touch trade exception handling system, new functionality requests, process improvement, capacity enhancement from infrastructure issues (curative and preventative), regulatory changes (Basel 2), market mandatory changes to ensure UBS was competitive in the Market (MIFID) and new products into the system including for example convertible bonds and warrants.
• The scope of changes covers the Securities and Settlement engine (SSE) and satellite systems. SSE is a cross product settlement engine for both Equities and Equity Derivatives for APAC and EMEA.
• Products covered through the full life cycle of the trade in the settlement engine include cash equities (shares), warrants, and convertible bonds.
• Change requests would be prioritised at forums and bundled for eight week release cycles using a combination of Essential Unified Process (Similar to RUP) and Agile methodology.
• Scrum meetings held each morning would review daily progress against plan and highlight any issues. Project progress would be fed to project managers of other streams and the business on a daily level on an informal basis (chat/telephone) and a formal basis at the end of each week (global email/central intranet page). Updates would go to all stakeholders and be reviewed by Managing Directors of each area.
• New project and software enhancements were developed on an Iterative basis from Inception through to Transition. New items were critically evaluated and best matched to team members to ensure the most productivity from the team. The development would team would support the change into a warranty period after it had been handed over to production support.
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Merrill Lynch Investment ManagersIT Project Manager
Sep. 2004 - Oct. 2006• Larger investors can authenticate, examine their portfolios, alter portfolios mix and receive personalised promotional content via the websites.
• Role encompassed gathering requirements from both Retail and Institutional areas, estimating work effort, providing cost and schedule estimates. Agreed projects would be prioritised and managed through the entire life cycle. • Smaller projects managed included managing BlackRock regulatory requirements changes for European Savings directive and working with fund accountants to bring our premier products (hedge funds) into our area. • The team comprised of nine analyst-developers covering both on going development and support of the BlackRock websites and fact sheets. Three of the team were recruited in India and were the offshore aspect of my team residing in Mumbai. I project managed the process of handing over support to the off shore part of my team. • The role covered fund fact sheets for our sales team. The fact sheets show highly detailed information regarding BlackRock fund performance and were used by our global sales offices as promotional material. Any inaccuracies would be financially very damaging to BlackRock and could result in litigious action by the FSA. • Vendor management for two companies that provided third party products to BlackRock. I had to ensure that they delivered the service that they have agreed to and ensure that they fulfil their contractual obligations. One of the companies created fact sheet publications while the other company developed and supports a portfolio-monitoring tool for our Retail customers.
HSBCProject manager
Jan. 2002 - Jan. 2004• Technical team lead hybrid position covering a mixture of project management and software development. • Dozens of small applications created for different areas of the bank but projects of note include creation of the HSBC Intranet. • My team consisted of twelve analyst- developers.
• Projects were created in a combination of VB 6, ASP, SQL Server, COM, Java and Lotus Notes. • The audience for the applications was front, middle or back office.
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