Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

• Leading the Customer Solution Center (CSC) for the Americas, a strategic, cross-functional team supporting all participants in the 4-party payments model — issuers, acquirers, merchants, and fintech partners.
• This role is particularly exciting as it marks my first regional leadership position after years of global experience in product strategy and go-to-market (GTM) execution. It also represents an expansion of my mandate beyond data and analytics, allowing me to focus on driving core deal-making, go-to-market execution, and customer-centric technology solutions at the intersection of payments, AI, and agentic payments innovation.
• The core responsibilities include designing and delivering technology-enabled solutions across core payments, real-time payments, cybersecurity, open banking, digital identity, and data & analytics.
• Partner closely with global and regional product, engineering, go-to-market, and sales teams to accelerate customer success, reduce time to value, and support strategic growth initiatives.

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Proud to continue serving on the board of Sikhs of Missouri.
• In this role, I collaborate with fellow board members to guide strategic initiatives, strengthen partnerships with local organizations, and advance community-driven projects that promote social justice, diversity, and mutual respect. Together, we strive to make a meaningful impact by giving back to the community and supporting those in need.

Jan 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Leadership position responsible for driving innovation in, and engagement with, Consumer permissioned data (enabled via Open banking), & scalable data-enabled decisioning systems. Highly cross functional role driving transformation across Financial institutions, FinTechs, & Merchant partners through compelling data-driven, needs-based solutions.
• The group’s focus is to help customers turn their vision of being a “Data-Driven” org into a reality. Helping our customers design and implement effective strategies to drive business outcomes in Open Banking, and Data Strategy & Analytics.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

• Data Transformation solutions focused position. Responsible for helping customers design and implement effective data management, data estate modernization and commercialization strategies.
• Designed and executed a multi-year strategy to mitigate the impact of changing Privacy landscape on the Data and Analytics business. Oversaw the successful migration of European data to the cloud in compliance with GDPR. Designed and implemented innovative solutions to leverage Privacy Enhancing Technologies and RegTech to protect and grow the analytics business in Europe.
• Developed and commercialized an advanced analytics platform that democratizes the power of AI/ML via a self-service click through interface. The platform significantly shortens time-to-prediction by enabling customers to leverage their data in combination with MA data in a cloud environment. The solution conceptualized and developed in its entirety during the pandemic is currently live in 30+ countries.

Mar 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Proud to serve as a board member for Sikhs of St. Louis, an organization dedicated to fostering community engagement, promoting selfless service, and supporting initiatives that enhance social equity and inclusion. The organization focuses on humanitarian efforts, including providing free meals (Langar) and educational outreach, to create a positive and welcoming environment for all individuals.
• In this role, I collaborate with fellow board members to guide strategic initiatives, strengthen partnerships with local organizations, and advance community-driven projects that promote social justice, diversity, and mutual respect. Together, we strive to make a meaningful impact by giving back to the community and supporting those in need.

Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater St. Louis

• Data technology focused role bringing business view to the Enterprise Architecture Team leading Data Architecture team. Mandate to develop, and execute on an organization-wide data architecture strategy that enables Mastercard to pursue data as a long-term strategic differentiator. Partner with teams across MA to foster a competitive advantage rooted in the next gen data fabric sitting on top of market leading tools, and technologies to meet the organization’s current and future business information demand. Leveraging the latest in AI/ML to create a state-of-the-art data ecosystem sitting on top of a corporate ontology that is content and context sensitive. Led initiatives focused on semantic models & knowledge graph.
• Designed approaches and architectures for inter/intra-enterprise data sharing and integration. Systematically addressed regulatory complexities (e.g. GDPR) & compliance (e.g. customer consent, on-soil, right to forget etc) via Data localization and Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

• I’m proud to serve as a mentor with American Corporate Partners (ACP), supporting U.S. veterans and active-duty spouses as they transition to civilian careers. Through one-on-one mentorship, I help guide career development, share industry insights, and open doors to professional networks. It’s a deeply rewarding way to give back and apply my experience in financial services to empower those who’ve served.

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Leadership role focused on designing, and delivering the Advisors Platform strategy globally. Remit to leverage Big Data, and emerging technologies including Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to design/deploy market leading, highly scalable self-service analytical tools, and platforms.
• Envisioned and implemented a President’s-award winning global knowledge center platform focused on delivering self-service descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive insights. The platform solved for critical challenges such as real time data, persona/user journey support, localization, multi-language and multi-currency support, self-service, collaboration etc.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Global position responsible for managing world class analytical, and information products delivery for MasterCard clients worldwide.
• Designed Mastercard's analytical environment which is used by a worldwide team of analysts and modelers to prototype, develop, and deliver Advanced Analytical solutions to traditional and non-traditional verticals including: Merchants, Issuers, Acquirers, Commercial Real Estate etc.
• Expanded analytical resources through a Global Center of Excellence in India. Instrumental role in recruiting, training and integrating team into ongoing operations.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos

• Diverse role in financial analytics firm, partnering with top US finanicial institutions for a variety of analytic and strategic engagements. Provide industry expertise and proprietary consulting services to optimize strategic initiatives for credit card and retail banking sectors.
• Focus on payments usage and strategy for acquisitions, wallet share, product alignment, marketing, and opportunity capture particularly through competitive benchmarking.Lead team of analysts to manage client relationships, sales and execution of analytical projects.

Jan 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs