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Feb. 2025
HSBCInnovation Program Manager
Sep. 2024 - Dec. 2024London Area, United KingdomI am helped manage/run an Innovation Program of work spanning multiple projects/initiatives to adopt AI/ML technologies in the Operations Areas of the Bank. We were a horizontal supporting all business verticals and across all markets globally.
FileTrailChief Operating Officer
Mar. 2024 - Sep. 2024London, England, United Kingdom
Advanceris Founder
Jan. 2024London Area, United KingdomWorking with start-ups and founder led companies to scale/ business model pivoting or specific steering/ building of the business/ launching in new regions/partnerships etc. Working with specific internal ventures at large organizations for structure, strategy and planning for execution. A few key assignments listed below - Portfolio Program Manager – Innovation Portfolio - HSBC – London-Contract (Sep – Dec 2024) Helping structure, an Innovation Program of work to adopt AI/ML technologies in the Operations Areas of the Bank. Primary task to build the 2025 Strategy, working with 15 Program managers and 10 Product owners of the fifteen programs, helping allocate $25+ M of funding to innovation ideas (~ 15) which were part of $120 M+ overall portfolio of budget. - COO/ Board Advisor at FileTrail Inc, London / Austin (Global Role) – Contract (Jan– Sep 2024) As the COO I was helping transform the firm into a professionally run firm globally with more than 300+ customers and $18M+ in ARR revenue. Advising & setting up on Business Model, Strategy for exit, due diligence to Board as part of Management Team. Leading the implementation and delivery globally ( with own and partner teams), ownership of P&L for all of Implementation ( Professional services), Support, Customer Success & outsourced teams ( R&D). Leading global support across all customers/ regions, and customer success in UK&I, EMEA & Asia Pac. - Advisor to Start ups for Scaling/ Building – LaunchPad Techno- Contract (June 2024 Onwards) Helping a portfolio of six founder led companies ( which are in Asia) with building the business/ venture to the next stage, business builds, new region launch, partnership advisory and leveraging global network.
Advanceris Chief Operating Officer
Jan. 2024London Area, United Kingdom
FileTrailVice President Operations
Jan. 2024 - Feb. 2024London, England, United Kingdom
FintechOSClient Director ( Insurance/ Banking)
Nov. 2022 - Dec. 2023London, England, United Kingdom
FintechOSDirector Ecosystems
Jun. 2021 - Dec. 2022London, England, United KingdomFintechOS provides fully integrated fintech infrastructure, helping bring together everything needed to build next-generation financial services that are digital-first, automated, and customer-centric. FintechOS supports rapid innovation in lending, savings, mortgages, insurance, BNPL and embedded finance. - Identifying, recruiting, onboarding, and activating partnerships with Big4, GSI’s, Boutique consultancies and technology plays for FintechOS.
- Leading GSI partnerships globally (UK, US, Europe) and two of the four Big 4’s.
- Ownership of end-to-end partnership lifecycle including commercial negotiations and contracting.
- Identification, business case building, commercial modelling, and execution for offerings with joint GTM with partners.
- Lead cross functional collaboration between Product, Marketing, Sales, Pre Sales, Legal, Professional Services and Partner on GTM motions for sell-with, sell-through and point solutions.
- Generating partner qualified leads through the partnership ecosystem working with sales teams of partners and help in qualifying and provisioning support to the sales process from internal FintechOS teams.
- Commercial modelling for solution pricing and working on pricing models and deal structure for partner led sales
Sapiens DECISIONDirector of Account Management
Apr. 2020 - Jun. 2021London, England, United KingdomSapiens Decision, a subsidiary of Sapiens International Corporation $ 470+ Million (NASDAQ: SPNS), transforms how businesses are approaching change, by modernising traditional business rules management. - Building trusted advisor relationships with Accounts & Partnership Ecosystem and helping with consultative selling.
- Won a prestigious global insurance award jointly for an innovative claims’ automation solution with a UK client in Mar 2021.
- Transitioning our business from an on prem to almost 100% SaaS model over the past 24 months. - Managing UK/EU accounts for Decision – License renewals, new sales, professional services and solution sales
- Leading globally the creation external partnerships for Sapiens Decision.
Sapiens DECISIONDirector of Practice UK/SA/EU/Asia
Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020London, United KingdomMarket facing
► Overseeing all Consulting engagements as the head of Professional Services in the UK/Europe Region
► Evangelizing the usage of the product and methodology to Client/ Prospects Business challenges/opportunities/ Use cases to lead to a solution/approach.
► Supporting Sales bids and the entire life-cycle of the sales process after they are a qualified prospect in a leading role for solution design, business architecture, proof of concepts, days of discovery, pilots Inward Facing
► Leading the consulting team in the region (recruitment, training, capability building)
► Delivering the regional financial targets for Consulting revenue
► Participate in business planning, performance monitoring and representing the region
Sapiens DECISIONDecision Architect: Consulting & Business Architecture
Jan. 2015 - Mar. 2017London, England, United Kingdom► Leading the Product & Methodology helping with adoption of the product,product training, delivery and solution architecture
► Key contributor towards building Decision Management best practices for internal as well as external audiences
► Provide feedback and guidance based on the local client and market demand on product gaps and new features as well as helping in prioritisation of product roadmap and increments.
► Internal SME on Agile Methods and helping client delivery teams adopt agile methods for delivering their projects. Also, working as an Agile Coach across a few delivery projects for client facing deliveries.
Sapiens DECISIONDelivery & Methodology, Practise Lead - QuickSTEP
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2014McLean, Virginia, United States► As the lead Business Architect played the role of proxy Product Owner & Agile Coach on a $30+ Million transformation program for developing a portfolio risk assessment application. Trained team on Agile and designed the project process.
► As part of the KPI Consulting team Lead and delivered clients with high impact consulting/business engineering solutions for quicker realization of business goals.
KPI was acquired by Sapiens in August 2014, also Ravisun Corporation merged operations with the entity which became Sapiens Decision.
Ravisun GroupCEO - Ravisun Corporation
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2014McLean, Virginia, United StatesEstablished a fully owned subsidiary of Ravisun Technologies in the US, and built a consulting team for supporting clients - Knowledge Partners International (KPI) & Sapiens. Merged operation with Sapiens after the acquisition of KPI by Sapiens.
Ravisun GroupEntrepreneur
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2014Pune - India, McLean VARavisun was comprised of a few smaller firms which engaged in Technology consulting & Training, trade activities and investment banking work for the natural resources sector. The firm incubated several business ideas in the technology space helping product startups with technology support and execution of ideas. (Sales revenues of ~$1.5 Million (US operations) & 20 Million INR (India operations)) As an entrepreneur set up a Product building consulting business with offices in US and India, and clients spread across US, Canada, Asia Pacific. Built a product analysts and development team of 15+ staff for helping build products for 3 American startups. Leading, negotiating, and finally concluding the merger and acquisition talks for my start up separate for US and the India businesses.
ThoughtWorksRegional Head of Resource Management & Part of India Management Team,
Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2009Bangalore, PuneThoughtWorks (TW) is a global software consultancy, with 25+ years of experience working with leading enterprises to solve their most complex problems with technology. With a team of over 8000 global experts, and trusted partners TW build the capabilities required to transform and succeed in a rapidly changing digital landscape. TW is passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences, and helping achieve clients their unique business goals with end-to-end services, combining strategic consulting, innovative experience design and world-class software engineering helping solve enterprises their most complex problems with technology.
Played several roles - Head of Resource Management, Member India Management Team, BA & Project Manager
► Set up of the new office in Pune (became a 180+ center over 2 years). ► Liaison with internal stake holders in Sales, Recruitment, and Delivery to staff projects across US, UK, Oz, and Canada. ► Designed and ran the mentoring/coaching program for career management and planning, and appraisal process for India staff. ► Interviewing client stakeholders for understanding and finalizing project/product scope and requirements.
Wipro, Shinsei Bank, NIIT Ltd, Bajaj Hindusthan, Avalon ConsultingVarious Corporate Roles
Jul. 1999 - Sep. 2006Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Tokyo, Bangalore- As the CoE lead at Wipro, helped design outsourcing programs, and provided pre-sales consulting services to clients in the US. - At Shinsei Bank lead the IT Infrastructure planning team, worked with CIO on various Bank wide change initiatives. Working closely with vendors of the bank across projects. - As Project Manager at NIIT worked on a Banking client in India implementing one of the largest learning platform for their new core banking. - In a Corporate Strategy role at Bajaj worked closely with the Chairman and CEO getting innovation in management practices and molding the organization with the goal of becoming a large diversified conglomerate in Sugar, Power and industrial alcohol.
- At Avalon Consulting, as a Management consultant worked on industry and sector analysis, corporate due diligence, market research, formulation of market entry strategy and business diversification assessments
- June 1996 to July 1997 : As a Graduate Trainee Engineer (GTE) at Tata Motors worked in design of automobile body and styling along with design of external surfaces for electrical fitments for the first passenger vehicle project (Car) project.
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