Leadership

Arun founded Intellect Design Arena with the dream of delivering world-class IT products, platforms, and technologies from India to the global financial sector. Working with global leaders in this space for over three decades as co-founder of Nucleus Software and as founder of Polaris Software provided him with domain expertise, which was blended with superior technology to realize this vision.

Intellect Design is the world’s first full-spectrum financial technology company in banking, insurance, and capital markets. It sells enterprise-grade products and platforms in 57 countries and serves 270 leading global banks and financial institutions.

Arun is a proponent of Design Thinking and champions its adoption and practice in Industry, Academics, Government, and Entrepreneurs. He is passionate about Design Thinking as a science and philosophy to create the most significant impact on individual and organizational performance. Integrating his deep FinTech expertise and Design Thinking passion, Arun’s latest creation is eMach.ai – the world’s largest, most comprehensive, and innovative open finance platform that empowers global banks to compose their signature solutions.

Arun, as an Institution Maker, has founded:

School of Design Thinking, focussed on shaping the thinking of young minds and professionals across different sectors through Design The Thinking© philosophy.

Mission Samriddhi is a social impact enterprise dedicated to the holistic development of rural India through the design and development of projects that are sustainable and capable of scaling to positively impact the larger population.

Ullas Trust recognizes academic excellence in students from economically challenged sections of our society and encourages a ‘can do’ spirit in them to chase their dreams and aspirations.

Arun has authored books, namely “UnMukt: Science and Art of Design Thinking”, “Digital: The Art of The Possible”, and “From Teenager to Achiever: The Power of 5 Minds”.

He also leads/participates in Government Forums and Startup Ecosystems to further the spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the IT space viz (i) Chief Mentor of FinBlue – A Financial Technology Center of Entrepreneurship by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) in association with ELCOT, Govt of Tamil Nadu, (ii) Member of National Software Product Mission (NSPM) of MeitY, Govt of India, (iii) Member of STPI Chennai’s Standing Executive Board and Advisory Council for Incubation Facility  (iv) Chairperson of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi.

He has been honoured with many awards, prominent among them are the Dronacharya Award by TiECON Chennai and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

As CEO and Co-founder, Ranga, strategizes and spearheads Maveric’s pursuit to become one of the world’s top three Bank-Tech solutions specialists transforming digital ecosystems of retail banking, corporate banking, and wealth management.

For more than twenty years, Ranga’s laser focus has created an organization that learns, experiments, and innovates through its passionate people and ‘free radical’ practices. His customer success obsession is evident in Maveric’s industry-renowned solutions across pressing challenges in CX, Digital Ops, Regulatory compliance, and connected core domains.

Having amassed versatile skills across Management Consulting, Business Strategy, and People management through pivotal roles in World Bank, AMEX, Polaris, E&Y, and AT Kearney, Ranga, offers exceptional insight into Maveric’s growth trajectory.

Postgraduate in HRM and IR from XLRI and based in Bengaluru, Ranga brings his abundant love of the outdoors and adventure into crafting Maveric’s self-transformational Himalayan programs. Deeply caring about organizational building, Ranga’s philosophy is powerful: “Who you are with on the bus is more important than where the bus is going.”

As co-founder of Maveric Systems, N. N Subramanian (Subbu) leads new client acquisition for the UK and Europe and focuses on building and nurturing relationships for Global Accounts. His role encompasses developing strategic plans and identifying growth opportunities critical to Maveric’s quest to become one of the top three global BankTech providers by 2025.

Over the course of his journey at Maveric, he was instrumental in establishing governance rhythms that delivered on the organization’s strategic priorities and burnished the brand’s reputation in the industry.

A veteran of business development and management consulting practices, Subbu, has been with Maveric since its inception and championed 100-plus banking transformation journeys. Subbu holds a master’s in business management studies from the Management Development Institute. Based in Chennai, he unwinds by listening to music, watching cricket, and going for long drives.

Mahesh is a co-founder and director at Maveric. In his role, he singularly focuses on strategizing and driving growth across our strategic banking customers. He provides the robust leadership and blueprint for aligning our high-demand business units and services to create contextualized solutions that address key CXO level challenges across our strategic customers.

With over 22 years of experience in the IT industry in the area of solutions design, delivery, and quality, Mahesh has a wide range of experience in delivering complex testing solutions to clients in Europe and the US through innovative models of offshore and onsite service delivery. He has also been instrumental in building and scaling the telecom vertical organically at Maveric.

Prior to joining Maveric, he founded Adarsh Technologies, an IT solutions company which catered to clients in the retail segment in the US, and provided solutions for co-operative banks in India. Mahesh started his career with Infosys Technologies and AF Ferguson.

As the Co-founder and whole-time Director at Maveric, P Venkatesh (PV) leads the global thought leadership function aimed at shaping and promoting Maveric’s perspectives as well as expertise in the banking technology space. By building relationships with industry influencers, partners and BankTech ecosystem leaders, PV drives creation of impactful frameworks, methodologies and landscape reports that provide informed perspectives on new age technologies that shape the BankTech space.  

At Maveric, PV’s stellar thought leadership has continually influenced leading banks’ growth strategies by advancing their revenue maximization, cost optimization, and regulatory compliance mandates.

A veteran of 30 years, consultant, and entrepreneur, across banking, financial services, retail, government, and urban services, PV’s deep competence in retail banking and regulatory compliance is sought across geographies.

A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Cost and Works Accountants of India, PV is passionate about forecasting trends and pursuing unchartered territory. His multi-disciplinary interests in literature, philosophy, mathematics, music, and theatre also inspire his credo: Enduring companies and communities have leaders who have beautiful minds.

A R Parthasarathy is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretary and also is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Fraud Examiner. He has rich experience of close to 3 decades, in Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Cost Control, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance and IT Advisory. He is a Senior Partner at RGN Price & Co., Chartered Accountants.

He is associated with Madras Chapters of Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has co-authored books on “IT Outsourcing – Audit Guide”, “Leveraging Data Analytics for Fraud Detection” and “AI in Financial Services – a Primer for Internal Audit and Fraud Detection” published by Institute of Internal Auditors, India.

He is an Independent Director of the Company and chairs the audit committee, providing guidance on governance, risk and compliance.

A celebrated thought-leader, Rama Sivaraman brings 30 years of diverse IT industry experience across service delivery, product development and implementation, delivery assurance, and program management. In her previous appointment, she was the Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director, and Board member of a $300M revenue IT major. From influencing several fortune 500 clients and leading global development centers, Rama has built top-notch teams and successfully delivered on complex mandates.

Sought after as a women leader and part of an elite women CXOs team, she co-founded ‘Empowering Women in IT (eWit)’ and served as its President (2013-15). Ranked as one of the Top 20 Women leaders in IT in India (Data Quest, August 2014), Rama was felicitated with a woman leadership award for excellence in the IT sector in Singapore(CMO Asia, 2016).

An Engineering graduate with an MBA in Finance and Systems, Rama is currently the President of India Operations at magedata.ai – a leading-edge AI company specializing in Data Privacy, Security, and Compliance.

As a Maveric board member, she guides the company to fulfill its aspiration of becoming one of the world’s top three BankTech solutions specialists.

Anil Sachdev is the Founder and CEO of Grow Talent Company Limited and the School of Inspired Leadership-SOIL. Grow Talent was created in July 2000 and rose to leadership in the strategic HR consulting industry by 2006. It enabled many Global and local firms to achieve breakthrough performance by realizing the potential of their people and creating a talent advantage.

In October 2008, Anil and the other co-founders of Grow Talent entered the field of Education by creating SOIL- the School of Inspired Leadership. This innovative school has been co-created by a consortium of 32 leading firms and focuses on the five pillars of inspired leadership: Compassion, diversity, ethics, mindfulness, and sustainability.

Anil’s experience in India and worldwide covers talent management, strategic change, and organizational transformation. Recognized as a thought leader in leadership development and Organizational transformation, Anil has done pioneering work with leading global and local firms. He has spoken at national and international conferences worldwide and written contributory pieces for leading publications. He has been adjunct faculty to leading business schools such as the Indian School of Business, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, GMI, Flint, Michigan, Antioch University, Seattle, Ohio University, and University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Anil began his career with Tata Motors in 1975 after completing his MBA from the University of Pune. He joined Eicher in 1978 and worked in HR, operations, and TQM. He is the Founder of Eicher Consultancy Services and was its CEO till 2001.

He is active in management circles and has held several public offices, such as Chairman of the National Committees on Leadership Development, Human Resources, and Industrial Relations of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Anil is a member of the Academic Committee of CEDEP, the leading Leadership Institute of Europe, located at Fontainebleau. He is a member of the World Compassion Council and a Trustee of the Chinmaya Mission.

Marquis published his biography in “Who’s who of the world” in 1991.

An experienced technology and leadership expert with over 35 years in the Indian IT Sector, Partha co-founded Mindtree in 1999 and has played key roles in building the company’s technology and delivery leadership capacity. As the COO of Mindtree, Partha focused on building capacity and capabilities in a unique, high-performing, high-caring culture, which helped Mindtree create a name for itself in the highly competitive IT Services space.

At an operational level, Partha has significant experience in setting up and scaling. As a co-founder, during his tenure in Mindtree, Partha was pivotal in setting up engineering processes in the early days. As the COO, he led many innovative and business-impacting initiatives for Mindtree. In particular, Partha was instrumental in setting up the global learning center in Bhubaneswar, a one-of-a-kind learning center conceptualized on the themes of Curiosity, Courage, and Responsibility. He is also responsible for Mindtree’s merger and acquisition focus, which resulted in four successful cross-border acquisitions during an 18-month period. He has seen the company grow from a venture capital-funded startup in 1999 to a billion-dollar revenue company in 2019.

His unique background in Mathematics and Computer Science has become even more critical in new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing.

Partha has also invested personally in several startups as an angel investor. He understands the startup ecosystem well and the challenges and opportunities in the startup world at the grassroots level. Partha has experience mentoring startups in areas like technology strategy, positioning strategy when it comes to selling to enterprises, setting up the right organization structure and culture for growth, and making the right people choices.

Before co-founding Mindtree, Partha was in Wipro’s global research and development team for 15 years, from 1985 to 1999. During this period, he worked on various technology products and services.

Currently, Partha is a Managing Partner in Mela Ventures, an INR 320 crore early-stage Venture Capital fund that invests in B2B startups.

Partha served on the NASSCOM IT Services Council for four years. During his tenure in NASSCOM’s IT Services Council, he worked towards enabling startups to work closely with the larger IT Players to get market access for the startups. During the same period, he led NASSCOM’s initiative to create technology role models within the larger IT sector by creating a platform called TechNgage to identify technology wizards and give them greater exposure.

Partha holds a M.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics from BITS Pilani. He completed his M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur. In 2010, Partha completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by BITS in 2016. He is also a Founder and Director of WeLive Foundation, an NGO focusing on after-care for children leaving childcare institutions.

Shaji was the Senior Vice President & Head of FSI NA for Atos. He was brought in to help turn around a business that was experiencing faltering growth and client-specific challenges. In his very first year, he was able to deliver quarter-on-quarter growth and completely rebuild his team for continued success. He put in place a strategy for Digital growth to expand the existing footprint, integrating complex capabilities that operate at the intersection of cloud, Data, AI/ML, and Cybersecurity.

Shaji was the President & Chief Executive of the BFSI Business Unit at Wipro with annual revenues of >$2.7B (accounting for ~32% of Wipro’s revenues). The BFSI business unit served 100+ clients globally across Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth Management, and Insurance. Under his leadership, BFSI became the fastest growing unit, delivering industry-leading growth for over 4 years. This has been a remarkable turnaround story and a compelling demonstration of Shaji’s capabilities in transforming organizations. Shaji has 35 years of experience in areas such as Digital Transformation, Business & IT Strategy, Business Process Redesign, Business Value Realization, and Technology Development, and has been a remarkable contributor to innovation and thought leadership – he holds 40 technology and process patents. Over the last 20 years, Shaji has led large global organizations (with 10-30K employees, working across the globe). Prior to taking over as the Chief Executive of the BFSI business unit, Shaji led the Advanced Technologies service line at Wipro, which was created to exploit transformational opportunities at the intersection of Cloud, Analytics, Mobility, and High-Performance Technologies – this eventually evolved into the current Wipro Digital organization. During the same time, Shaji also headed Global Alliances, Strategic Marketing, and Sales Enablement functions at Wipro. In this role, he was responsible for driving a unified approach across Sales Enablement and Strategic Marketing functions to improve Wipro’s sales and marketing effectiveness.

Shaji brings a wealth of experience in the Financial Services and High-Tech sectors. Prior to joining Wipro, he held several senior-level positions at Infosys for over a decade, including Senior Vice President and Global Head of Consulting & Systems Integration across Financial Services. He also served as the Head of Banking & Capital Markets for the Americas region. Before Infosys, Shaji worked at Diamond Technology Partners, a strategy consulting firm, for four years, and spent a decade at IBM.

He holds an MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and a Ph.D. in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a recipient of several academic honors (IITB, RPI, NYU), and awards for excellence. Shaji is based in New York.