Experience

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  UNO Digital Bank

  • Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Mar 2023 - Present
    • Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

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  FMBcapital Holdings Plc

  • Mauritius
  • Financial Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Group Chief Digital Officer

    • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

    Responsible for defining the digital strategy for the banking group and contributing to delivering business value by leveraging the stable technology platform delivered over the last few years. Part of the group executive management team.

  • Group Chief Information & Digital Officer

    • Sep 2018 - Aug 2022

    Responsible for defining, executing and managing the group strategy across the 6 countries of operations. Additional responsibilities included conceptualizing and setting up a technology-driven solution architecture for a digital banking model for the group. As a member of the group executive management team, responsible for the governance, regulatory compliance, budgetary process and contributions to the P&L and Balance sheet growth of the banking group. Key technologies added to the group were cloud-hosted applications and services, colocated data centers and DR services delivering compliant Recovery Time (RTO) & Point Objectives (RPO), Managed Security services using MXDR partner services, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), ITIL based IT Service Management (ITSM) processes for service request handling, incident and change management, a group wide MPLS WAN connectivity, a fit for purpose applications stack driven by platforms and a microservices driven architecture based on ESB/API tools and employing emerging technologies and channels for delivering AI/ML driven chatbots, WhatsApp banking. Also responsible for setting up a IT GRC function (Governance Risk and Control as a 2nd line of defense) including re-defining and implementing IT policies for the banking group based on the regulatory framework in the 6 countries of operations.

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  SBM Bank

  • Port Louis, Mauritius

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
    • Port Louis, Mauritius

    Responsible for setting, executing and managing the (public sector) group technology strategy across the 4 countries of operations. Additionally responsible for conceptualizing and setting up a technology architecture to enable a digital banking model for the group. Responsibilities included managing the System Integrator (SI) partner team and their deliverables.

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  CRISIL Limited

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Director, Risk Solutions

    • Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Responsible for delivery and the business unit’s P&L for Risk management solutions and project implementations at banks and FIs in India and internationally. Responsible for Risk Management consulting practices and developing and deploying software tools to deliver statistically developed business and risk models as per BASEL norms for banking risk supervision and management. Managing a team consisting of risk consultants, developers, testers and project managers

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  Omni.Care

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Tech Advisor, Co-founder

    • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Defining and setting up the entire healthcare marketplace technology including taking decisions on web and mobile channel technologies and cloud hosting.

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  Fullerton India

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Sep 2005 - Jul 2015

    Ensuring IT team partnered with business and support functions to help achieve corporate goals. Responsible for end to end IT functions covering business solutions, IT infrastructure, data center, networks, BI and MIS, support teams.

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  Citi

  • AVP

    • Feb 2004 - Aug 2005

    Citibank EMEA Technology Office.

  • Senior Manager

    • Jun 1998 - Jan 2004

    Citigroup (CGSL)

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  K. Raheja Constructions

  • Engineer

    • Jun 1995 - Aug 1996