Ramakrishnan Gopalan

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India24 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led billion-dollar balance sheets across 17 APAC markets.
  • Innovated digital lending solutions using big data analytics.
  • Achieved 23% YoY improvement in client acquisitions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in digital lending and payments across Asia Pacific.

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Skills

Core Skills

PaymentsProduct ManagementCustomer AcquisitionDigital MarketingDigital PartnershipsCustomer EngagementMarketingLendingCredit OptimizationDigital LendingCustomer ExperienceFulfillment ProcessCollections ManagementRisk ManagementProduct StrategyNew Product DevelopmentCross-sellingSales

Other Skills

Client PartnershipsData AnalysisData AnalyticsDistributionRe-engineeringCost SavingsBusiness AnalysisLogistics ManagementPortfolio ManagementMortgage LendingCredit AnalysisOperational Risk ManagementLoansCredit CardsBanking

About

Business Leader with proven experience in lending including payments, BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later),, new product development, portfolio building , digital journey optimization, credit operations activities in the Asia Pacific Retail Banking Industry. Has leadership experience for building and managing billion dollar balance sheets and P&Ls across 17 markets here in Asia Pacific including on-ground experience in India, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. Built Digital lending propositions using Big Data Analytics and a "Mobile First" approach. Partnered with Digital Eco-systems (PayTM, HKTV, Coles etc) and built data driven customer journeys to acquire new customers as well as provide innovative payment and lending solutions My skills are understanding retail banking business models, solving customer pain points, growing them from ground up to significant scale during expansionary credit cycles and perform risk mitigation and manage them during recessionary credit cycles as well as business transformation through digitization and big data analytics . Specialties: Asset risk management Payments Digital Lending Digital Marketing Building Product Profitability Relationship Management Customer Acquisition and Service

Experience

Visa

Chief Product Officer, India and South Asia

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs · Mumbai · On-site

  • Drive Visa’s payment and money movement vision for the South Asia market
  • Innovate with new solutions and capabilities that are custom built for the target segment
  • Partner with clients - banks, merchants, fintechs as well as payment aggregators and enhance Visa’s relevance in the market
PaymentsProduct ManagementClient Partnerships

Citi

8 roles

Director, Strategic Initiatives

Promoted

Nov 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Build and Roll-out a new customer acquisition framework incorporating customer level P&L as well as alternative data
  • Ramp-up digital acquisitions in Citi's key markets using this alternative framework - serving new risk and commercial paradigms
Customer AcquisitionDigital MarketingData Analysis

Country Head of Cards and Loans, Citi Taiwan

Apr 2020Sep 2020 · 5 mos

  • Leading a highly profitable cards and Loans franchise for Citi (3rd largest franchise for Citi in Asia Pacific) across marketing, distribution and lending; Leader of 900+ employees in the organization
  • Launching key partnerships with local digital eco-systems, e-commerce and wallet companies to achieve new customer acquisition as well as cards usage and instalment sales goals
  • Transitioning out of the role for personal reasons.**
MarketingDistributionLending

Director, Head of Client Acquisitions and Engagement

Promoted

Jan 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Built new data aided digital acquisition partnerships(Coles, HKTV, PayTM etc) through APIs that will bring more top of the funnel traffic to Citi as well as improving targeting mix and conversions that aids in reducing cost of acquisitions (average digital CPA down by 12% YoY).
  • Crafting "Regionally Consistent" Digital Journeys for new customer acquisitions that minimizes customer friction as well as increases conversions; Driving Innovation through STP (Straight Through Processing) capabilities as well as as through Apply and Pay(enabling instant wallet provisioning through tokenization) . Launched Digital Card feature that allows customer to instantly spend on their card immediately after opening of the account
  • Driving calibrated business growth for new client acquisitions balancing returns and risk appetite as APAC markets recover from pandemic
  • Responsible for delivering new client acquisition goals - delivering 23% YoY improvement in 2019-20
Digital PartnershipsData AnalyticsCustomer Engagement

Director , Head of Unsecured Lending Product , Asia Pacific Cards and Loans

Promoted

Jan 2015Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Responsible to optimize Credit Cards and lending P&L across 17 countries in the Asia Pacific Region covering both program management as well as portfolio optimization. Significant interaction with In-Country and Regional Risk Management teams to capture profitable customer's share of wallet; Built guardrails that allowed us to build balances while adhering to our risk management framework.
  • Built Digital lending propositions including Card Loans as well as "Buy Now Pay Later" products across several APAC products. Led a team of Data Scientists on roll-out of Machine Learning Pricing and Propensity Models to enhance conversions for Digital Lending solutions
Credit OptimizationRisk ManagementDigital Lending

Senior Vice President & Country Head - Credit Initiation , Consumer Assets

Jan 2012Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Leads and manages fulfillment process for all consumer asset originations viz Credit Cards, Personal Loans, and Mortgages. Spearheading re-engineering to build the best in class platform with lower resources, faster turnaround and better customer experience
Fulfillment ProcessCustomer ExperienceRe-engineering

Vice President & Head - Collections Strategy and Recovery

Promoted

Dec 2008Dec 2011 · 3 yrs

  • Managed collections and risk management through times of substantial credit headwinds ; credit operations experience for all products including mortgages, credit cards and personal loans; Reduced credit losses by more than 85% and expenses by more than 2x
Collections ManagementRisk Management

AVP Cards Product Management

Promoted

Sep 2005Nov 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Key Relationship Manager of the successful and awar winning Jet Airways Citibank Partnership
  • Travel Segment Expert managing Forex Prepaid Cards
  • Work on Cards Product Strategy and New Product Development. Launched India's first transit cum contactless credit card with the Delhi Metro
Product StrategyNew Product Development

Product Manager

Sep 2003Sep 2005 · 2 yrs

  • Cross-Sell Manager through remote banking channels
  • Deliver cost saves of US $ 0.5 Million through statement on email
Cross-SellingCost Savings

Nestle india limited

Marketing Executive

Jun 2002Sep 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Responsible for culinary product sales in Delhi.
  • Worked in the Business Analyst team driving brand profitability, evaluating trade and customer promotions etc.
SalesBusiness Analysis

Infosys technologies ltd

Software Engineer

Aug 1999May 2000 · 9 mos

  • Software engineer responsible for building logistics management solution for Kent Electronics - an electronics reseller in US
Logistics Management

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

MBA — Finance & Operations

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

B. Tech — Mining Engineering

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Padma Seshadri Bala Bhawan Chennai

12th Std — Science

Jan 1992Jan 1995

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