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Kedar joined Citicorp
Overseas Software Limited (COSL)
in 1985 and has grown with the organization
since then. Kedar heads “The
Capital”, Polaris’ Hyderabad
Center, which specialises in technologies
for Capital Markets, Treasury and
Wealth Management. He has rich experience
in delivering global solutions across
banking verticals, such as private
banking, credit cards, corporate
banking, cash management and capital
markets.
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An alumnus of Indian
Institute of Science (IISC) and
a Chartered Financial Analyst, Ramaswami
has built successful enterprises
as well as nurtured innovation thru
flagship horizontal practices such
as Polaris Application Certification
Enterprise, .NET center of excellence,
content management, etc. The diversity
of his experience from government
to corporate projects has enabled
him to contribute significantly
to the SEI CMM forum, in developing
risk as a process component.
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In his previous stints,
Ramaswami was the CEO of Realsoft,
the software arm of Reliance Industries
and President & COO of Indchem
software, a Sanmar conglomerate.
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Manish Maakan has
joined Polaris as the Executive
Vice President & Global Head
Retail Banking, based out of London.
Manish joins us from GE Money, India,
where he was CIO. Manish has an
impressive career record spanning
over 15 years, as a Technology Strategist
and an innovative and inclusive
leader in Global Financial Institutions,
Big 5 Consulting firms and Fortune
500 Majors. He has been an avid
practitioner of Six Sigma for last
7 years.
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He
has been a recipient of multiple prestigious
awards during his career, including
the recent "IT Growth Leader
2006", awarded by the GE Global
CIO, for his outstanding contribution
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Manoj is the Business
Centre Head for Corporate Banking
Solution Group which provides innovative
solutions and services for Working
Capital Management, Portal Solutions,
Business Process Management, and
Information Security. He has an
Electronic and Telecom Engineering
degree and is an alumni of IIM Calcutta.
He has over 18 years of varied experience
in providing Corporate Banking Technology
solutions with primary focus on
Trade Finance and Cash Management
domains.
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Pradeep has been working
as a Social Entrepreneur and Management
Consultant sharing his expertise
in a variety of areas like Corporate
turn around, Strategy, Policy Deployment,
TQM, Six-Sigma and Lean Sigma. A
mechanical engineering graduate
from BITS, Pradeep has pioneered
Policy Deployment implementation
in BPO industry and is an expert
on implementing 'manufacturing principles'
in the BPO & IT industry.
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In his earlier stints
as President & CEO of Ninestar
Information Technolgies Ltd., Executive
Director for Datamatics Technologies
Ltd and MD & CEO for Lason India
Ltd., Pradeep also pioneered the
concepts of Rural BPO, Campus BPO,
CSR BPO and distributed value chain
model in BPO industry.
Pradeep has co-authored the book
'Brand Wise' on leveraging people
for creating brand.
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In over 19 years of
his stint in the IT field, Raj Parameswaran
has worked in organizations such
as CapGemini as Vice President of
Services and Operations for India
Business Unit and Continental Europe,
and in TRADEPAQ TRM as Executive
Vice President of Global Services
and Operations.
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Raj is a strong believer
of project management principles
and continuous process improvement.
His passion includes Project and
Program Management, global delivery
management, people management, building
centers of excellence and managing
global sales and support process.
Raj is a certified Project Management
Professional (PMP®) with Masters
Degree (M.S.) in Computer Science
from University of Bridgeport, CT,
USA and an M.B.A. from Krannert
School of Management at Purdue University,
Indiana, USA.
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Amit is a well experienced
IT Management professional and worked
extensively in UK and India in senior
leadership roles as Head / CEO of
Indian operations of UK multinationals.
Amit has been deeply involved in
management, development and delivery
of Business/ IT Strategies and has
demonstrated ability to build organizations
and Centre of Excellence and has
extensive experience and track record
in successfully managing culturally
and geographically diverse teams.
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Amit joined Churchill
India (An offshore IT Development
center for Churchill Insurance,
UK) in 1995- in the Insurance industry
in UK. Amit has strong knowledge
of software operations in offshore-onshore
setups, coupled with leadership,
strategy and startup expertise.
He helped conclude a very successful
transition of Churchill India (Now
known as RBS India Development Center)
into The Royal Bank of Scotland
Group. He served as Managing Director
of RBS India till 2007.
With an experience
of 15 years in senior leadership
roles, Amit holds an Engineering
Degree from IIT Varanasi, Insurance
qualifications from The Chartered
Insurance Institute UK and is accredited
as Direct Broker by IRDA (India).
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Uppili
Srinivasan, or Oops as he is popularly
known, is Partner and head of Intellect
Global Universal Banking. Since joining
Citicorp Overseas Software Limited
in 1992, he was involved in design,
development and implementation of
a critical universal banking system
for a large financial service provider
for over 7 years. From 1999 to 2006,
Oops headed the Enterprise Group within
Polaris that specialized in services
and solutions in the Internet space.
In this capacity he built up a Center
of Excellence that partnered with
a Tier 1 bank to deliver what is regarded
as the world's best corporate internet
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then moved over to a more strategic
role in London and successfully
led corporate banking and treasury
related solutions and consultancy
initiataives for the EMEA geography.
In
his current role based out of Chennai,
India, he heads Intellect Global
Universal Banking and is incharge
of sales support, engineering and
rollout of a key portfolio comprising
Core Banking, Consumer and Commercial
Lending, Wealth Management, Internet
Banking, Payments and other strategic
Intellect platforms.
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Having
20 years of experience in the areas
of Management Consulting, Application
Development (AD), Application Maintenance
(AM) and Product & Application
Testing Services.
Established testing organizations
for Baking and Finance, Life Sciences,
Retail, Telco and Manufacturing line
of business customers. |
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in establishing delivery and test
centers operating out of India, China,
Malaysia, Europe, Australia, Egypt
etc countries.
In the past worked for
Satyam Computer Services, Sriven Computer
Solutions, Systems Research Group
and OMC Computer Services. |
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Venkatesh
Srinivasan heads the Treasury and
the Risk Management practice, which
specializes in providing technology
solutions in the area of Treasury
and Risk Management to banks and financial
institutions by leveraging the Treasury,
Liquidity and ALM products/components.
Of his 20 years of experience in the
IT industry, Venkatesh has spent 15
years in banking technology, spanning
Tata Consultancy Services, Citigroup
and Polaris. Before moving to his
current role 5 years back, Venkatesh
worked as Relationship Manager/Head
of technology for Citigroup India
Corporate Banking covering application
development and maintenance. |
Venkatesh is a member
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India and has done a Computer
Management program. He is also a
member of Global Association of
Risk Practitioners (GARP).
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Vikas
presently heads the Enterprise Solution
Center at Gurgaon and is responsible
for managing and nurturing strategic
relationships with several large customers
of Polaris in the Investment Banking
and Enterprise Solutions space. He
has been actively involved in setting
up the relationships with organizations
in UK and Switzerland. He also got
the opportunity to play a pivotal
role in team responsible for establishing
subsidiaries of Polaris in UK, Switzerland
and Ireland. |
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