Shalini Sankarshana — CEO
Critical leadership roles in building enterprise SaaS products, leading product & technology functions, offering solutions and services to world’s largest institutions and building transformational GCCs. My current stint allows me to impact the wide range of customer base across 5000 institutions across the globe and across industry verticals through their digital transformation journey. Built, shipped and ran multiple products and platforms of various sizes and spans, with customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Consistent delivery against business goals, with a Client-first outlook, and building sustainable and high-performing teams has been a key focus. Opportunity to influence the industry & build the community has been highly gratifying. Leading Change: Thriving in a culture of Intrapreneurship and Innovation, continue to drive the same fast-paced culture within the teams; Leading change and delivering continuous innovation in business model, delivery model, product. Transformation of multi-million dollar revenue business and driving growth of the portfolio. Building Businesses: Set up strategic capabilities across the organization, driving practices across the Product Development lifecycle (Engineering, Product, Strategy, Business Development, Client onboarding, Innovation, Services) hands-on, building global products ground-up having gone through all phases of the product/business lifecycle. Adept at shaping the business functions and teams; consistent focus on strong execution and delivery. Platform, Product Leadership: Proven experience in building/rationalizing/driving enterprise-grade, large scale products and platforms serving the industry. 2+ years of SaaS experience in BFSI/Fintech, transforming into API-driven, User-Experience focused solutions. Serving world’s largest banks, broker-dealers, investment firms and large corporate institutions. Building front-to-back systems that service end-to-end investment lifecycle. Building Organization: Consistently building large high performing, multi cultural and multi dimensional teams in a world of highly interconnected global setting (global customers, global solutions, global teams). A committed proponent of diversity and equality in teams. Building the Industry Ecosystem: Industry Thought leadership (Fixed Income Post Trade Processing, Operational Risk Management etc.), Building the India Software Product ecosystem being part of NASSCOM Product Leadership; Working with industry, academia and government initiatives to mentor start-ups and enable innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS leader with extensive experience in product management and strategy.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 23 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Capital Markets
- Business Development
- Fixed Income
- Corporate Strategy
- Securities Processing
- Business Analysis
- Product Engineering
Career Highlights
- Led product management for next-gen post trade processing solutions.
- Built high-performing teams in global settings.
- Drove digital transformation for 5000 institutions globally.
Work Experience
Planview, Inc.
Managing Director (3 yrs 8 mos)
Broadridge
Head - International and Asset Management (Broadridge Financial Solutions India), Sr. EVP (3 yrs 8 mos)
Executive Vice President, Global Product Leader (3 yrs 5 mos)
VP - Strategy, Head of Product Mgmt - GTO(India) (2 yrs)
Associate Vice President, Strategy & Business Development (2 yrs 8 mos)
Executive, Strategy & Business Development (1 yr 4 mos)
ADP
Manager - Business Analysis (2 yrs 2 mos)
Project Leader - Business Analysis (1 yr 2 mos)
Team Lead (1 yr 10 mos)
Wilco International Systems
Software Development Lead (4 yrs 2 mos)