Rakesh Pozhath

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Digital Payments and Transaction Banking.
  • Led multi-year transformation programs for major banks.
  • Deep expertise in Fintech and Banking technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with deep experience in Banking technology and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Transaction BankingDigital TransformationCustomer Experience TransformationIt Strategy

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAnalyticsArchitecture DesignBlockchainBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCash ManagementData AnalysisData MiningDigital LendingDigital PaymentsDigitizationFinTechFinancial Modeling

About

Several years of Management Consulting experience, specialised in working with Financial Services majors across India, South East Asia and Europe - primarily Banks, Fintechs and NBFCs. Currently leading our Payments practice for APAC. Deep expertise in Transaction Banking, Banking tech, Blockchain, Payments and Retail lending. Significant experience across Growth strategy, Customer experience transformation, Digital transformation, New product design & monetisation, Operating model redesign and Performance improvement.

Experience

Bain & company

2 roles

Partner

Jul 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Principal

Jul 2012Present · 13 yrs 8 mos

  • Part of India Financial Services Practice leadership; Affiliated to FS, Customer and IT practice and capability areas at Bain
  • Extensive experience in Digital Payments working with multiple global and Indian payment infrastructure providers and large banks on real-time A2A payments, Credit cards and Payment tech
  • Significant experience in India across Digital Lending, Neobanking, Digital wealth management and Open Banking / Banking as a Service working with both incumbents and Fintech insurgents
  • Significant exposure to Fintechs in Payments, Lending, Wealth Management and Consumer/SME FS ecosystems in India and globally
  • Led multi-year Customer Experience transformation programs at leading regional & local banks
  • Significant experience in post COVID operating model design, WFH enablement and new ways of working for large banks
  • Extensive experience in Transaction Banking and working in multiple APAC markets, especially Singapore, UK, Thailand and India
  • Deep expertise in Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Cash Management
  • Led multi-year Transaction Banking transformation programmes at major regional banks covering Strategy, Client value proposition, Technology and Operating Model
  • Led multiple multi-year IT transformation programmes at banks, covering Strategy, Architecture, IT procurement, Design and multi-year Implementation
  • Deep knowledge of the Banking tech space covering Transaction Banking, Distributed Ledgers, Open Banking, Real-time payments, IOT, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence etc. - multiple programs on DLT/Blockchain with global/regional banks and DLT platform providers
  • Deep knowledge of IT product vendors, Systems Integrators etc.
  • Organizational restructuring, Credit strategy and Wealth management strategy at leading Indian NBFCs
  • Private equity: Multiple due diligences of targets in various sectors such as Financial Services, Agrochemicals, pharma, healthcare, media, IT-services, logistics and FMCG
Digital PaymentsCustomer Experience TransformationTransaction BankingDigital LendingNeobankingOpen Banking+3

Jpmorgan chase

Summer Associate

Apr 2011Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Singapore

  • 4 week stints each at Commodities Trading, Structuring and Sales desks
  • Commodities Structuring – Regressed 4 GSCI indices against 10 Asian inflation numbers & structured optimal portfolio for inflation hedging; Generated 2 crude oil vol trading ideas with supporting research
  • Commodities Sales Group – Researched capacities, products, ownership & capital structures of 30 LBMA gold refineries to select suppliers; Prepared 8 agricultural commodities primers for clients & internal use

Ibm india research labs

Summer Intern

Apr 2009Jun 2009 · 2 mos

  • 1 of the 2 recipients of prestigious Blue Scholar Internship, IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore (May - July ‘09)
  • Research in Data Mining; Algorithm designed called Tree Clustering
  • Won 1st place in the all-India IBM IRL research poster contest competing against 55+ other interns
Data MiningAlgorithm Design

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2010Jan 2012

KU Leuven

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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