Ramakrishnan Gopalan — CEO
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in digital lending and payments across Asia Pacific.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 24 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Payments
- Product Management
- Customer Acquisition
- Digital Marketing
- Digital Partnerships
- Customer Engagement
- Marketing
- Lending
- Credit Optimization
- Digital Lending
- Customer Experience
- Fulfillment Process
- Collections Management
- Risk Management
- Product Strategy
Career 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.
Work Experience
Visa
Chief Product Officer, India and South Asia (4 yrs)
Citi
Director, Strategic Initiatives (1 yr 4 mos)
Country Head of Cards and Loans, Citi Taiwan (5 mos)
Director, Head of Client Acquisitions and Engagement (1 yr 9 mos)
Director , Head of Unsecured Lending Product , Asia Pacific Cards and Loans (3 yrs 11 mos)
Senior Vice President & Country Head - Credit Initiation , Consumer Assets (2 yrs 11 mos)
Vice President & Head - Collections Strategy and Recovery (3 yrs)
AVP Cards Product Management (3 yrs 2 mos)
Product Manager (2 yrs)
Nestle India Limited
Marketing Executive (1 yr 3 mos)
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Software Engineer (9 mos)
Education
MBA at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
B. Tech at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
12th Std at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhawan Chennai