BankTech Executive Summit, Hong Kong 2012 CIO Insights Panel

I started my career in New York City in technology developing products and services in consumer electronics, telecommunications and finance before expanding my leadership impact and influence to Europe, India, the Middle East.

As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO), I have led high performing teams across three continents in New York, London, Zurich, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Beijing, Seoul, Manila, Jeddah, Bahrain.

Global Technology Landscape

Keynote Speaker: “Data Center Trends for the Future; UBS Data Center Best Practices”

IDG Data Center Paradigm Shift Conference. Seoul, Korea

My 25-year career in financial services spans many generations of Technology from early versions of messaging and distributed systems to the use of the World Wide Web; building the first private PaaS platform in banking at Deutsche Bank; developing Goldman Sachs’ revamped DR/BCP strategy post-9/11, helping the adoption of thin clients, desktop virtualization and WAN acceleration at Goldman Sachs India; pioneering the use of Data Visualization and Self-service BI at UBS; consolidating various offshore Technology centers at Wells Fargo India and Philippines, and globally leading Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Platforms Services in DevOps, private Cloud and APM; leading the Cloud modernization effort and building a first line Technology Risk function at The Hartford.

Finance

Telecommunications

At Verizon (NYNEX Science & Technology Labs) I worked on launching the first voice-AI product in the market: VoiceDialing (TM) featured in The New York Times.

Consumer Electronics

At Philips N.V., I worked on algorithms for self-parking vehicles and robotic task planning software before the current wave of Machine Learning. The work on autonomous vehicles received US Patent #5220497.

  • "When embarking on transformation, you have to have a very clear sense of purpose in the organization as a contributor; You have to make sure you have the sponsorship to pay for innovation; And humans are not an afterthought. Make sure the people can embrace and champion change and are part of the journey. Even with AI, you have to take a humane approach to humans-in-the-loop."

    Three principles of transformation in organizations, Sandeep Mehta

  • "The responsibility and liability of AI outputs always lie with the company, both for the acquisition of the data for the models and the output of those models."

    On Responsible AI, Sandeep Mehta