Experience

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  Sahamati - driving Open Banking with Account Aggregator

  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • COO

    • Sep 2020 - Mar 2024
    • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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  Onemoney

  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Management Consultant

    • Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
    • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Helped drive product strategy for one of India's first-ever, licensed Account Aggregators, the latest entrant to India's fintech story.

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  Mahindra Comviva

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • Senior Vice President, Mobile Financial Solutions

    • Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Head of product management and product marketing for portfolio of mobile financial products aimed at the telecom and the banking industry.

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  VSoft

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Chief Product Officer

    • Jul 2013 - Jan 2015
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    My responsibilities include defining strategy for VSoft's product lines globally, establishing a product planning and control process, communicating roadmaps to internal and external stakeholders and drawing up product marketing strategies.In short, taking an idea from "mind to market".

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  VSoft Technologies Private Limited

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Vice-President

    • Jul 2004 - Jul 2012
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    VSoft Corporation is a US-based global provider of software products and services in the domains of core banking and payment processing. VSoft Techologies Pvt. Ltd was established in 2004 as the Indian arm.- Joined as the second employee and helped set up the organization. Over eight years, we built a strong cross-functional technology innovation team of over a hundred and fifty professionals. - Led teams across the core banking and payment domains, building, launching and marketing new core banking and payment processing products in the US and APAC market.- Led business transformation efforts in partnership with banks in the US and India to implement and evangelize complex technology solutions for core business processes.- Over eight years, revenues grew three-fold, our core banking product won the cover page slot and the Annual Innovators Award (2010) of Bank Technology News and attrition was remarkably low.Served as President of VServe (India) for a brief period. VServe is the managed services division of VSoft Corporation, a global provider of software products and services for the financial marketplace.- Led a hand-picked team of people comprising operations, product management, implementation, infrastructure management and HR and launched efforts to improve the division's performance.- Provided outsourced image-enabled payment processing services across all major cities in India to banks of all sizes.

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  iLabs Private Limited

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Product Specialist, Bio-informatics and Media divisions

    • May 2001 - Jun 2004
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    iLabs is an early-stage investor and an incubator of innovation-driven businesses. Bio-informatics was one of the areas that iLabs invested in. - Joined the team at an early stage and helped drive product development in conjunction with sales partners and customers based out of the US and the UK. - Set up systems and policies that had a salutory effect on employee retention and knowledge management.- Was the lead co-ordinator for partnership programs with key scientific bodies. Three scientific papers and multiple products were developed over a period of three years.- Led efforts in product marketing and communications.I was then moved to another division in incubation that was in the process of launching the state's first 24 by 7 News Channel (TV9). I was part of a four-membered setup team that helped launch the channel successfully.

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  Ticklewit.com Pvt. Ltd.

  • Kolkata Area, India

  • Co-founder

    • Apr 2000 - Apr 2001
    • Kolkata Area, India

    It was the age of the dotcom. A couple of friends from IIM Calcutta and I launched what was possibly India's first gaming site that had a virtual currency concept. We failed to sustain our efforts beyond a year but the experience is cherished by us as most memorable.

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  Asian Paints

  • Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam

  • Branch Manager

    • Jun 1998 - Mar 2000
    • Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam

    I led sales and marketing efforts at Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam for a year each. After my first year, I was adjudged one of the four best trainees, for my stint at Vijayawada. In my very first independent stint at Visakhapatnam, I uncovered fraud being committed by a senior functionary and was instrumental in getting him removed. The team that I led in those days continue to be very good friends through the years.