NEAL CROSS

Corporate, Social and Startup Entrepreneur, Board Advisor, Former Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank

Neal Cross is a globally recognized corporate, social and start-up entrepreneur with a long track record across bluechip technology, finance and data companies. Most recently Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove the their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the worlds best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 from Euromoney. He has personally been awarded the worlds most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards.

In his spare time he has built social enterprises to help save the endangered orangutans and coral reefs in Sumatra. Cross is passionate about solving problems in an elegant manner and deploys world class programs to engage the entire work force in the business of innovation. Cross has advised hundreds of the major brands in Asia and is a trusted adviser to several leading CEO’s, government agencies and startups.

CYRUS TAHERI

Global Head of Alliances, Infosys Finacle

Cyrus joined the Finacle leadership team to head the Global Alliances and Ecosystem Unit. Previous to Finacle, Cyrus successfully led the Global Financial Services and Banking Ecosystem for Accenture. He brings 16+ years of experience across market strategy, investments and acquisitions, banking technology and business transformation. Throughout his career, he was particularly focused on the definition and execution of partner strategies, go-to-market, offering development, value proposition, delivery excellence and innovation leveraging the ecosystem to generate value for the client.

He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he remains very active in the local Fintech community pursuing his passion for innovation. He holds an MBA from the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina and a bachelors degree in Production Engineering.

DEEPAK PANIGRAHY

Vice President – Product and Business Strategy, EZMCOM

Deepak works as the Vice President of Business and Product Strategy while heading the operational director role for EZMCOM UK. His experience spans from Research & Development to Product and Business Management in the domain of Security, Mobile and Cloud for more than 13 years. He has been influential in building and nurturing the Finacle-EZMCOM relationship globally and has worked with both large firms such as Motorola Research Labs and Oracle and startups, including founding one of them

ARUN RAVEENDRAN

Director – Partnership & Alliances, Whatfix

Arun is a banker turned entrepreneur with venture focussed on solving the perennial problem statement in the Education Industry. Currently in his role at Whatfix – A Digital Adoption Platform, he leads Partnerships & Alliances globally.

Helping Fortune 500 companies enhance User Experience and Digital Adoption, he truly believes that, “Banks must be able to deliver an easy to navigate, a seamless digital platform with enhanced user experience; that goes far beyond a typical online banking offering.

SHALINI WARRIER

Chief Operating Officer, Federal Bank

Ms. Shalini Warrier took charge as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Federal Bank on 2nd November 2015. Ms. Shalini Warrier is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and was the First Rank Holder in 1989. She is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers.

Having more than 25 years of banking experience working with Standard Chartered Bank in multiple disciplines across various geographies that include India, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates, Ms. Warrier was the CEO and Head of Consumer Banking of SCB in Brunei. She brings first hand global experience in Branch Banking, Process Management, Service Quality and Client Experience, Project Management, Operations, Technology, and Compliance with special emphasis on Client Due Diligence and Anti Money Laundering.

The key assignment of Chief Operating Officer is to systematize the digital strategy and enhance operational excellence through automation and digitalization designed to improve client experience. She also plays a key role in all initiatives designed to deliver greater value to our stakeholders by functioning as the Controller of IT, Operations, Corporate Services, Service Quality, Credit Administration and Digital Banking. COO is responsible for formulating the Bank’s future direction and partner with the Board and the Top Management team to drive strategic initiatives designed to enhance shareholder value, ensuring all the relevant support functions run smoothly and are able to create the right systems to support business growth of the Bank, confirming right support architecture is implemented in the Bank and through which the Bank is able to grow and prosper. She is responsible for the entire policy formulation with respect to IT, Operations, Service Quality, Corporate Services, Credit administration, Digital banking and also for the implementation of the same. Ms. Shalini Warrier plays a key role in all initiatives designed to deliver greater value to stakeholders.

PUNEET CHHAHIRA

Head – Marketing & FinTech Engagements, Infosys Finacle

Puneet leads global marketing and FinTech engagements for Finacle at EdgeVerve, a product subsidiary of Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for charting out marketing strategies, enhancing brand differentiation, and driving growth.

Apart from marketing, Puneet is also responsible for global FinTech engagement programs. In this role, he is responsible for curating a robust FinTech ecosystem around Finacle offerings. This includes selecting and onboarding promising FinTechs, designing joint value propositions, crafting and executing go-to-market plans, and ensuring market success for the joint offerings.

Puneet has been at Infosys for over 14 years. During his tenure, he has led multiple consulting engagements with banks globally. He has also been a part of product management team and holds a patent in the wealth management space. He brings along a deep understanding of financial services industry, application of modern technologies, and marketing channels, to nurture global brands and drive business growth.

Prior to joining Infosys, Puneet was a regional head at Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance – one of the largest life insurers in India. Puneet holds an engineering degree in computer science and specialized in Marketing & Finance during his post-graduation.

SAMIR KHARE

Group Chief Information & Digital Officer, FMB Capital Holdings

Samir Khare is the Group Chief Information & Digital Officer at FMB Capital Holdings. Samir is a senior banking professional with extensive experience in the Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI) domain across design, implementation, program management and technology infrastructure. He has a deep understanding of banking and financial products across corporate, retail and microfinance banking. He has substantial exposure on emerging technologies in the space of Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud computing and cybersecurity. Previously, Samir has been the Chief Information Officer at State Bank of Mauritius. Prior to that he has been the Director, CRISIL Risk Solutions (a Standard & Poors global company), India’s premier rating and risk solutions company and Chief Information Officer of Fullerton India Credit Company, a Temasek Holdings entity and one of India’s leading NBFCs. Prior to Fullerton, he was with Citibank Global Corporate & Investment bank as a part of EMEA Technology Office. Samir holds a Masters in Management Studies (Finance) and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

RAHUL WADHAVKAR

Associate Vice President, Global Product Manager, Infosys Finacle

Rahul is a seasoned Corporate Banking professional with over 20 years of experience in Product Management and Information Technology roles in leading banks across North America and Europe. In his current role he heads the Product Management and Compliance function for the entire Finacle Suite for North America.

KASPAR SITUMORANG

Executive Vice President – Digital, Bank Rakyat Indonesia

Kaspar is a digital enabler at BRI, and is responsible to accelerate digital transformation at BRI as the growth catalyst beyond merely improving business efficiency. He is formerly the Regional Program Manager at Silicon Valley’s hardcore DNO specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software and telco industry. Kaspar is highly skilled in Analytics, Design Thinking, Big Data, and Digital strategy execution. He also a strong programme and project management professional with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) focused in Computer Engineering from Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Kaspar leads the team at BRI to focus on leveraging machine learning to create the best credit scoring services, utilizing mobile first strategy and emphasizing on customer journey for every digital initiatives.

HITESH SACHDEV

Head – Startup Engagement & Investments, ICICI Bank

Hitesh Sachdev is a veteran banker with ICICI Group, with a highly rich and diverse 19 years of experience across innovation, FinTech, private equity, investment banking & asset financing. Hitesh presently heads the Start-up Engagement and Investments at ICICI Bank. He has played an instrumental role in setting up the Innovation team and executing cutting edge technology led projects for ICICI Bank in collaboration with FinTech start-ups. Hitesh also leads FinTech Investment Fund for investing into emerging FinTech start-ups.

As part of his current profile Hitesh also plays a key role in “Blockchain Infrastructure Company” (BIC), India’s first blockchain based banking consortium. BIC was conceptualized by Hitesh in early 2018 and since then he has been the primary evangalist of the BIC consortium in India and overseas. He has played a key instrumental role in bringing together 11 private & PSU banks to participate in BIC as founding members as well as equity holders.

Prior to this, Hitesh played a pivotal role in setting up the Emerging India Fund (EIF) and has successfully led the investments in Agri Logistics, Education & Healthcare from EIF. Prior to setting up EIF, Hitesh led the investment banking vertical focussed on Mid-Market and Agri business group and executed multiple M&A and Private Equity transactions.

Hitesh has longstanding experience in dealing with SME & Mid Corporate clientele & played a pivotal role in scaling up SME business at ICICI Bank.

He is mentor to many entrepreneurs / companies through various platforms like Grow Your Business Program, The Sounding Board, ASCENT, TiE etc.

SANAT RAO

Chief Business Officer and Global Head, Infosys Finacle

Sanat Rao is the Director at EdgeVerve. Sanat has over 26 years of experience in international banking and technology led business transformations. His experience spans strategic partnerships with clients through their digital journey across multiple markets globally. In his present role, Sanat is responsible for growing the Finacle business and driving industry leadership with innovations in the banking space. Having started his career at ANZ Bank, a global financial institution headquartered in Australia, Sanat has had stints with marquee global financial technology organizations. In his previous role as Vice President and Senior Partner at IBM, he was responsible for a portfolio of offerings including cloud consulting services, CIO Advisory, core banking, digital foundation and payments in the BFSI space. He was also deeply engaged with FinTech companies in identifying and nurturing new partnerships that could prove disruptive in the market. Prior to that, for nearly 14 years till 2013, Sanat played a variety of global roles as part of the Infosys Finacle organization, helping build and scale the brand, with the last position as the Global Head of Client Services and Alliances. In this role, he was responsible driving global sales, client engagement, and strategic alliances for Finacle globally. Sanat’s expertise of the banking and financial technology industry is exemplary, having previously been responsible for Infosys’ global banking product strategy for the entire Finacle suite. Sanat is based in London but spends much of his time travelling globally to engage with clients.

CHANDRAMOULI KUNDAGRAMI

Senior Industry Principal, Infosys Finacle

Chandramouli has over 25 years of work experience in the banking platforms industry with expertise across the areas of Digital Banking, Channels, core banking, CRM and wealth management solutions. As Senior Industry Principal he is responsible for Digital Business Consulting Center of Excellence, and helping in implementing the same in the product and evangelizing the strategy across stake holder groups internally and externally.

Chandramouli has worked with and for banks in evolving and implementing their channel strategies and has experience of how this has evolved in terms of customer and other stake holder expectations. As a part of the bank, he has worked with e-commerce companies in setting up payment partnerships and merchant partnerships from the bank’s perspective. Chandramouli holds 4 patents in the channel offering area and has being a long standing thought leader in this domain.

SAJIT VIJAYAKUMAR

Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Infosys Finacle

Sajit has over 22 years of experience and has played various Delivery, consulting, and sales & engagement roles in US, India, and the UK. He has been with Infosys for 18 years and primarily worked with Oracle and SAP Practices where he helped clients drive value from large package enabled transformational programs in the Finance, HR and Supply Chain functions. Prior to joining Infosys, Sajit worked with ICICI Securities , a joint venture between ICICI Ltd and JP Morgan, in their Financial Control functions.

SAUMER PHUKAN

Director of Sales – Key Accounts, Intel India

An experience technology veteran who has worked across – USA (Bay Area), Taiwan and India; Saumer Phukan currently works as the Director of Sales – Key Accounts in Intel India. His portfolio extends to cover key financial institutions like SBI, ICICI and LIC. Prior to his current role, Saumer also managed the Global System Integrators across Asia Pacific and Japan and accounts like NTT Data, TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Tech Mahindra.

PHANINDRA YARLAGADDA

Head of Global Digital Banking & Data Engineering, Silicon Valley Bank

Phani heads the Global Digital Banking and Data Engineering at Silicon Valley Bank. He is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience. He has previously worked with global brands such as Amazon and Visa.

Phani is currently driving a major Digital Transformation for Client On-boarding, Online Banking, Mobile, and API banking at SVB. Phani manages a global team to provide seamless world class client experience, blend digital and physical business/customer experiences while improving operational efficiencies and organizational performance. He is responsible for a multi-year roadmap to develop, launch and grow a global digital platform to support SVB products and services for our global clients. He is instrumental in transforming the Traditional Data Organization to build a Data Platform and world class Data Products to support SVB’s business using AI, Predictive Analytics & BI.

ANGIE BRIEL

Business Owner, Digital Channels and Digitization, Personal and Business Banking, Standard Bank Africa Regions

With more than 20 years’ experience in Retail Banking, Angie has gained extensive experience ranging from Core Product Management, Rewards Programme Management for Intermediaries in the Home Loans business, Digital Channel Management and most recently overall Bank Digitization. Her vast knowledge in traditional Retail Banking with a passion for making the lives of customers in Africa much easier, Angie has yielded many meaningful milestones in her career, some of which include heading up the team to deliver on the first Smart Banking app in 10 countries in Africa, the delivery of an Enterprise Online Banking solution and the digitization of the first unsecured lending solution in Africa regions, to name a few.

Angie is no doubt a Banker at heart. She is also a mother of 4 children and is an avid artist in her free time, although she admits that she is not very good at it.

JOHN FORD

Chief Executive Officer, Australia Military Bank

John Ford is an experienced CEO with a track record of delivering strong organic growth and innovation in consecutive roles.

A strong strategy and marketing background drives John to “an outside in approach” to ensure the customer is at the forefront of considerations. John also enjoys challenging the status quo and inspiring his team to continually improve in a competitive environment. Australia Military Bank’s recent banking system conversion was driven by the Bank’s desire to become a modern, nimble and ultimately successful niche bank.

Having worked for a variety of listed banks (e.g. Suncorp / St.George), insurance companies (Suncorp / GIO), building societies and credit unions John gains great satisfaction from leading a member owned organisation with a clear commitment to serving the Defence community.

Outside of his role at Australian Military Bank, John is a director of Shared Lending Pty Ltd which provides a platform to support the syndication of mortgage loans.

RATAN SANJAY

Director, Partner Development-Cloud, ORACLE INDIA

Ratan Sanjay is Director- Partner Development-Cloud at Oracle India. In this role, Ratan is responsible for leading and driving partner GTM strategies, Business & Technology development, Enablement, capacity and capability building, customer success efforts across Oracle’s cloud portfolio.

He is a industry veteran with close to three decades of rich experience. Has held numerous leadership positions in Business Development, Consulting, Program Management, Sales , Pre Sales , Service Delivery and Technology functions at DEC, Nortel Networks, HP, IBM,CA Technologies

He is a thought leader and very passionate about how cloud based paradigms are key catalysts and enablers towards driving & accelerating Digital transformation for organizations to achieve the next level of growth.

Ratan has done B.E in Computer Engineering from University of Pune. He has PMP and ITIL certifications and is a Certified Member of “Leadership Excellence Community” at Harvard Square

SONAM WANGCHUK

Monk, Engineer and Innovator

Sonam Wangchuk was born in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh in J&K, India.

Though a Mechanical Engineer by education, he has been mostly working in the field of education reform for more than 27 years. In 1988, just after he finished his engineering studies he founded SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) www.secmol.org, which aims to bring reforms in the government school system in Ladakh. In 1994 he was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope, a triangular collaboration of the government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government schools system. The programme involved formation of Village Education Committees to take ownership of state schools, training of teachers in child friendly ways and re-writing and publishing localised text books for Ladakh. As a result the pass percentage at 10th grade (matriculation) rose from the dismal 5% to 55% in seven years and 75% these days.

For students who still failed in their state exams he founded the SECMOL Alternative School Campus near Leh, a special school where the admission criteria is failure in exams and not grades. However with the supportive and creative environment at the school, the so called failures have excelled in their chosen fields and risen to international acclaim as entrepreneurs, film makers, politicians, teachers and so on.

As an engineer Sonam Wangchuk has been teaching innovation at the SECMOL Alternative School, where together with the students he designed and built solar heated buildings that are low cost, made of earth/mud but maintain +15 C even when the outside temperature is – 15 C in Ladakhi winters.

In order to solve the water crisis facing mountain regions due to climate change and fast melting glaciers he invented the Ice Stupa artificial glacier which stores the wasting stream waters in winter in the form of giant ice cones or stupas and releases the water in late spring as they melt… just when farmers need water.

Sonam Wangchuk was granted several awards and titles, such as :-

The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2018, The GQ Men Of The Year Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 in India, The Rolex Award for Enterprise 2016 in Hollywood USA, The Terra Award 2016 for World’s best Earth Buildings in Lyon France, The UNESCO Chair for Earth Architecture for India in 2014, ,: ‘Real Heroes’ Award by CNN IBN Channel in 2008, ‘Green Teacher’ Award by Sanctuary Asia Magazine in 2005, Ashoka Fellowship by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in 2002, ‘Man of the Year’ by The Week magazine in India in 2001 and the Governors Medal by the J&K State Government in 1996.

SANKARSON BANERJEE

Chief Information Officer, RBL Bank

Sankarson Banerjee is the Chief Information Officer at RBL Bank. He is an accomplished technology professional with over 23 years of multi-faceted experiences in the industry.

In his current role at RBL Bank, Sankarson is responsible for Information Technology, optimizing legacy IT Systems, identifying and adopting innovation and enabling digital transformation of the Bank. Prior to joining RBL Bank, Sankarson was Chief Technology Officer at the National Stock Exchange. He has worked in both sides of the divide i.e. IT companies like IBM, MPhasis & Accenture – wherein he lead their Technology, Cloud & Mobility practices for India and user organizations like Future Group & IIFL. He has also been part of a venture capital firm helping review technology investments.

Sankarson is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur & IIM Calcutta.

SIDDHANT TANEJA

Senior Industry Principal, Infosys Finacle

Siddhant currently leads our Finacle Digital Engagement Suite of products. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) degree from St.Stephen’s College and an MBA from IIM Bangalore

Siddhant is an ex-banker with 17 years of product, sales and strategy experience at Citi and ING. He led multiple, award-winning digital and business transformation projects at ING that unlocked significant revenue, led to a surge of adoption and resulted in deeper customer engagement. Siddhant currently leads product management for Finacle Analytics. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) degree from St.Stephen’s College and an MBA from IIM Bangalore

SRINIVASAN SAMPATH

Senior Vice President, Head IT PMO, First Abudhabi Bank

Srinivasan Sampath has more than 25+ years of experience in the banking technology. He holds ACIB from Institute of Financial Services (UK) and B.Sc (Hons) in Financial Services from Manchester University (UK). Sampath is working as Senior Vice President in First Abudhabi Bank. As a member of the Technology Leadership Team his responsibility includes contribution to technology strategy, policies, process and successful delivery of large transformation programs. Sampath recently delivered a larger integration program of merger of two large UAE banks. In his capacity he has successfully delivered several large mergers and acquisitions technology integration programs. His key strength is to deliver these large programs successfully with aggressive timeline and budget.

In the recent years Sampath has also been involved in leading the digitization program covering end to end digital customer experience and process automation. He was also involved in implementing the first cross border block chain remittance transaction between two major banks. In his previous capacity Sampath was working as Head of Business Information Technology in a leading UAE Bank.

VIKRAM LODHA

Vice President & Head – Trade Product Management, Supply Chain Finance & PSL – Global Transaction Services, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited

Vikram currently spearheads the Trade Products and Supply Chain Finance (SCF) for Kotak Mahindra Bank. He has been with the bank since May 2007 and was part of the initial team that was instrumental in setting up the Trade Finance division. Vikram is also responsible for Priority Sector Lending for the Bank. Vikram’s expertise in Trade & SCF, coupled with client centric approach, has helped grow Kotak’s transaction banking business manifold. Vikram has over 16 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining Kotak, Vikram was part of Citibank N.A.’s O&T team.

VENKATRAMANA GOSAVI

Senior Vice President & Global Head of Sales, Infosys Finacle

With almost 30 years of sales and operations experience, Venkat is responsible for Finacle sales globally.

Venkat’s inclusive leadership style and passion for Finacle has enabled him to deliver consistent results for Infosys Finacle in various roles for over 15 years. Over the years, he has diversified Finacle’s portfolio and strategized to win marquee banking logos, thus ensuring continued market leadership for Finacle across regions. Prior to joining Infosys, Venkat worked with Ramco Systems Ltd in the ERP market and Wipro Infotech.

Venkat has an engineering degree in electronics and communication and an MBA with a specialization in marketing and entrepreneurship.

MATTHEW GRIFFIN

Award winning Futurist, Advisor and Founder 311 Institute

Matthew Griffin is an award winning Futurist and Founder of the 311 Institute, a global futures think tank working between the dates of 2020 and 2070, described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers.” Regularly featured on AP, CNBC, Discovery and RT, his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of revolutionary emerging technologies on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled. Recognized for the past five years as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts Matthew is an international speaker who helps governments, investors, multi-nationals and regulators around the world envision, build and lead an inclusive future.

A rare talent Matthew sits on the Technology and Innovation Committee (TIAC) for Centrica, Europe’s largest utility company, and his recent work includes mentoring XPrize teams, building the first generation of bio computers and re-inventing global education, and helping the world’s largest manufacturers envision, design and build the next 20 years of devices, smartphones and intelligent machines. Matthew’s clients are the who’s who of industry and include Accenture, Bain & Co, BCG, BOA, Blackrock, Bentley, Credit Suisse, Dell EMC, Dentons, Deloitte, Du Pont, E&Y, HPE, Huawei, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, McKinsey, PWC, Qualcomm, SAP, Samsung, UBS, the USAF and many others.

ROBERT LEVINE

Global Business Development & Chief Operating Officer, Uniken

Robert is seasoned executive and an established cyber security “insider” with 30 years of international experience having built and exited 2 firms in Cyber Security.

Robert has a deep well of experience in the sub-cyber security field Identity & Access management (Authentication, Authorization, Access & Governance). He brings a broad knowledge of the overall market place that provides critical insight for making sure the solutions deliver the utmost security and also enhancing the customer experience. Having built two firms from the ground up, he understands the challenges and brings a conclusive, relentless and realistic approach to his work.

Robert’s experience includes senior management roles in financial services technology, private equity investment banking (EIR), software products and IT Services. His international experience includes starting and operating domestic and international firms inclusive of USA, UK, India & Australia.

Robert was President & CEO of SENA Systems, which he sold Aurionpro Solutions and subsequently sold to KPMG . Robert was the founder, interim CEO and VP of Business Development of Transindigo, a security product firm sold to RSA (now EMC) having spun this technology out of his Deutsche Bank department along with the Series A capital raise. He was a Managing Director in Technology & Operations at Bankers Trust Company where he led Architecture and Strategy for $300M of technology spend. He was also a Managing Director in Early Stage Technology Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. Robert also served on the board of IQ Financial, a global financial services software supplier that was later sold to Misys.

KRISHNASWAMY SUBBARAO

Vice President, Global Head of Strategy & Products, Infosys Finacle

Krishnaswamy Subbarao has a diverse professional experience of 27 years and contributes as head of product strategy and product management in Finacle. Prior to this he co-founded Practicworks, a niche advisory and consulting firm and was the CEO of EXILANT GmbH, a company focused creating products in the Industry 4.0 space using IOT. He has experience in driving transformational sourcing models, heading product engineering groups and managing large engagements.

Krishnaswamy’s sectoral experience extends across BFSI, Manufacturing, retail and logistics.

SUBRAMANIAM MEENAKSHISUNDARAM

Engineering Leader, CTO Office, IBM

Subramaniam Meenakshisundaram (Subbu) leads the Engineering team for the CTO Office, ISA. He is an Executive IT Specialist by profession and leads the charge on AI & Cloud Native PoCs with customers.

He has 19+ years of experience working in IBM across multiple roles, products, and technologies. In addition to his primary role, he is the Professions Leader for Technical Specialists in India and is a member of the IBM Academy Leadership Team.

SUDHINDRA MURTHY

Global Product Marketing Manager, Infosys Finacle

Sudhindra leads global product marketing initiatives for Finacle Corporate Banking Suite at EdgeVerve, a product subsidiary of Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for building sales pipeline, enhancing brand visibility, generating client advocacy, and improving mindshare among influencers for Finacle Corporate Banking suite of solutions.

In the current stint, Sudhindra has been at Infosys Finacle for over an year now. He has successfully aided business objectives by providing value partnership in identifying the key business offerings, building value propositions and credentials, creating the right go-to-market messaging, developing sales enablers and driving influencer outreach programs.

With a strong technology and marketing experience of over 14 years in IT services and products, Sudhindra has a proven track record of conceptualizing and developing sustainable initiatives, delivering measurable results to external and internal stakeholders.

Sudhindra holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

VIKRAM K

Senior Director, Industry Verticals, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India

Vikram is the Senior Director Industry Verticals at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in India. In this role he Drives the Strategy and Sales for all Industry verticals – FSI, Telecom, MDI, Public Sector and Key Accounts for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products, i.e. Servers, Storage and DC Networking.

With 26 years of experience in IT Sales, Services and Software Business, he in the last 8 years has held strategic leadership positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise deploying key IP’s & developing human capital

In his previous roles at HPE, he was Senior Director HIT India managing the revenue, P&L, sales and presales and moves after 8 years of managing the business in its various forms– DCHC, Servers, ISS and the likes. These years had unprecedented growth and success with almost all products having the largest or second largest market share across categories.

Having been a part of HPE since the last 21 years, he specializes in Enterprise Business Services, Infrastructure Products and Software. His strengths lie in customer acquisition, P&L Management, Managing Growing Markets, Driving Revenue Growth, Heading Mergers and Aquisitions, and leading teams to greater heights.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from one of India’s renowned institute, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and MBA from Mumbai University.

A.S KIRAN KUMAR

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Mr Kiran Kumar is a highly accomplished space scientist and engineer with a distinguished career spanning over four decades in ISRO in the satellite payload and applications domains.

He has made immense contributions to the design and development of Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors for Airborne, Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Orbit satellites starting from Bhaskara TV payload to the Mars Orbiter Mission payloads.

Mr Kiran Kumar was instrumental in evolving the successful strategy for steering the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft towards planet Mars as well as its Mars Orbit Insertion. He has also made significant contributions for evolving the observation strategy encompassing land, ocean, atmospheric and planetary studies.

Mr Kiran Kumar is a recipient of many national and international laurels/awards including the Padma Shri Award conferred by the President of India in 2014, International Academy of Astronautics’ Laurels for Team Achievement Award for Cartosat in 2008 and for Chandrayaan-1 in 2013, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) Award for the year 1994, VASVIK award (Electronic sciences and technology) for the year 1998, Astronautical Society of India Award (Space Sciences and Applications) for the year 2001, ISRO individual Service Award 2006, Bhaskara Award of ISRS in 2007 and ISRO Performance Excellence Award 2008.

RAJASHEKARA V. MAIYA

Vice President & Head – Business Consulting Group, Infosys Finacle

Rajashekara Maiya heads the Business Consulting Group at Infosys Finacle. He represents the company while interacting with external stakeholders such as analysts and the media. He has played several roles across diverse areas, including product management, solution architecture, implementation, and pre-sales over the last 19 years at Infosys.

Maiya specializes in core banking, risk management, regulations, and compliance. He has been quoted on these and other topics in reputed publications such as Forbes, The Banker, Banking Technology, The Economist, Business Line, BBC Radio, and the Economic Times. He is on the expert panel of the McKinsey Quarterly; is a member of the XBRL Abstract Modelling Task Force (AMTF) Group; and is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Maiya holds several patents and has pending patents in the areas of partner portals, delivery channels, offline banking, and customer experience.