BankTech Executive Summit, Hong Kong 2012 CIO Insights Panel
Global Technology LandscapeI have worked across three continents and six countries during the course of my career leading high performing teams in almost a dozen geographies, where I lived and travelled. 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. I have built and led teams in New York, London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Sydney, Saudi Arabia, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bahrain, and Manila.
Finance
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 in India and Philippines and leading Enterprise Platforms Services in DevOps, private Cloud and APM; and leading the cloud modernization effort and building a first line Technology Risk function at The Hartford.
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.