Ashutosh Dubey

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Architected frameworks for asset tokenization and CBDC.
  • Led cross-functional teams in high-impact transformation programs.
  • Pioneered innovative digital payment strategies impacting millions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in digital payments and product innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital StrategyTechnical Product ManagementPaymentsAsset TokenizationCbdcProduct StrategyInnovation ManagementProduct DevelopmentBusiness AnalyticsBusiness AnalysisProduct ManagementProject Management

Other Skills

AS400 systemAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementArtificial IntelligenceB2GBacklog ManagementBankingBlockchainBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCapital MarketsCo-creationConsultingCore BankingCreativity and Innovation

About

As a fintech leader and principal product architect, I build future-ready digital payment systems, delivering strategic impact across UPI, CBDC, asset tokenization, and regtech platforms. My work at NPCI and major banks drives breakthrough growth like architecting the Asset Tokenization Framework, pioneering CBDC solutions, and lifting cross-sell results by 30% with data-driven communication models. I lead high-performing teams to launch scalable, regulatory-compliant products that accelerate digital transformation for India’s financial ecosystem. Let’s power the next wave of fintech innovation together

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Kotak mahindra bank

Senior Vice President

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Developed and executed digital payment strategies (UPI, IMPS, AEPS, Cards, CBDC), driving streamlined governance and program execution across diverse payment channels, impacting over 50 million transactions monthly
  • Led innovation experiments utilizing advanced model context protocols and large language models, resulting in a 30% uplift of cross-sell conversion rates and improved internal communications efficiency
  • Architected and modeled scalable programmability frameworks for Asset tokenisation and CBDC, directly enabling new use cases adopted by 5+ business units and boosting stakeholder engagement across bank and regulatory teams
  • Directed UPI switch migration with zero downtime, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and enhancing system resilience, reducing Technical declines by 18% year-on-year.
  • Managed KPIs, delivered continuous improvement, and spearheaded digital transformation initiatives across payment infrastructure, aligning project delivery with national fintech priorities and regulatory benchmarks
  • Enabled real-time payments innovation (merchant acceptance, infrastructure modernization), resulting in a 25% reduction in transaction failures and accelerated customer onboarding cycles.
  • Led cross-functional teams (10+ engineers, product owners, payment specialists) in high-impact transformation programs, ensuring project milestones were met on time and within budget.
  • Orchestrated regulatory engagement and coordinated audit readiness, achieving top compliance scores and enabling seamless certification for new digital payment products.
Digital StrategyTechnical Product ManagementPaymentsFinTech

National payments corporation of india (npci)

2 roles

Senior Lead - Innovation Management

Promoted

Jul 2021Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • 1 Lead the Product development for India CBDC (App, Payment, Tokenised Assets using blockchain) and usecases like Programmability, Offline, UPI imteroperability
  • 2.Innovation strategy design and identification of Feasibilty and success criterias of Minimum viable product with technology teams.
  • 3.Managing team of 10+ members in innovation projects catering product and business requirements.
  • 4.Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements related to Distributed ledger Technology, AI, IOT, Secure Element.
  • 5.Defining the vision for the team’s product based on payment using Tokens
  • 6.Creating a product road map based on this vision
  • 7.Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
  • 8.Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development
  • 9.Developing user stories
  • Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process and introduction innovation by bringing insights from existing market and product roadmap.
  • 10.Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates. Stakeholders include - Regulator, Banks, FinTech's and Internal departments.
Backlog ManagementProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentProblem SolvingProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement Definition+23

Lead -Business Analytics and Innovation

Nov 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • 1.Gain a deep understanding of the market, competitive landscape, and client experiences.
  • 2.Strategize projects around different technologies like Blockchain, API platform, Data science, Automation etc.
  • 3.Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product functional gaps and generate new ideas to grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
  • 4.Design, scope and prioritize requirements based on business and client impact.
  • 5.Develop product strategy and road-map by analyzing product performance, identifying and filling product gaps and generating new ideas that grow market share, improve client experience and drive growth.
  • 6.Identify new trends and solutions, partner with suppliers and/or internal R&D to test and bring new or enhancements to market
  • 7.Define messaging and value propositions and be accountable for the overall go-to-market plan, including the revenue forecasts, adoption goals, pricing, annual pricing strategy, and service strategy.
  • 8.Generate product buy-in with key stakeholders.
  • 9.Translate product strategy into product requirements and prototypes.
  • 10.Represent the company by visiting and meeting with clients to solicit feedback on products and services.
  • 11.Collaborate with marketing, sales, and operations to develop product pricing, positioning, and promotional plans that are aligned with product strategy.
  • 12.Identify target market segments, segment sizing and ideal customer targets, and design forward-thinking positioning approaches for company products and services.
  • 13.Drive product launches with other key internal and external stakeholders.
  • 14.Provide cross-functional project management oversight for product development initiatives, including pilot projects, product enhancements, and new product development with startups.
  • 15.Develop a clear product launch and commercialization process and methodology to ensure success at all levels; internally and externally
Backlog ManagementProblem SolvingProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement DefinitionEmerging TechnologiesPosition Papers+17

Rebit | reserve bank information technology pvt ltd.

2 roles

Business Analyst -Research and Innovation

Mar 2019Oct 2019 · 7 mos

  • 1. Performing Requirements Life Cycle Management for projects like - Public Credit Registry, NBFC Account Aggregator.
  • 2. Creation of Business Requirement Document for the RBI Projects
  • 3. Acting as liason between business stakeholders.
  • 4. Responsible for end to end implementation of projects as Product Owner.
  • 5. Performing Vendor Assessment in terms of Business and Information architecture
  • 6. Assisting developers in the data science modelling exercise in the areas of Econometric studies.
  • 7. Creation of Request of Proposal, Evaluation Criteria and Scope of Project to select bidders for RBI projects.
  • 8. Submitting ideas in the form of whitepapers
Backlog ManagementProblem SolvingProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement DefinitionEmerging TechnologiesPosition Papers+16

Business Analyst Project Management

Aug 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Key Responsibilities include
  • 1. Work effectively in a multi-stakeholder environment and responsible for mentoring and managing the productivity of the junior team mates.
  • 2..Creation of MVP(minimum viable product) design and perform usability testing with RBI stakeholders.
  • 3.. Independently initiates, identifies and coordinates the analysis of business needs in project areas.
  • 4.. Interfaces or liaison between business owners/users and development project teams to determine, communicate and validate business requirements.
  • 5..Understands, gathers, and defines requirements of all types, and documents with process flows and diagrams.
  • 6.. Writes detailed business requirements, functional specifications and, when involved in project teams using an iterative development methodology.
  • 7. Understands business processes and products for assigned business functions and the relationships between those processes and information systems, including the impact of system changes to business processes.
  • 8.Provides on-going project management and status reporting at all levels.
  • 9.Creates and maintains project schedules by developing project plans and functional specifications, estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle.
  • 10.Provides timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts.
  • 11.Conducts project meetings with the project team(s) regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines.
  • Projects : Cybersecurity Incident Management, Setting up of Credit Registry,Operational Risk etc.
Backlog ManagementProblem SolvingProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement DefinitionEmerging TechnologiesPosition Papers+18

Accenture

Senior Business Analyst

Jun 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • 1.Enhance knowledge of Capital Markets in areas like Corporate Actions etc.
  • 2.Review, analyze, and interpret Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and providing feedback on key functionalities and technical feasibility.
  • 3.Working on Asset control tool for Post trading activities.
  • 4.Analyze and translate BRDs into Functional Requirements Document (FRD).
  • 5.Review, analyze, and interpret financial industry standard file formats (ISOXML, SWIFT messages and etc.).
  • 6.Performed mapping from industry standards to proprietary formats or database.
  • 7.Adhere to the requirements processes as well as SDLC to gather, write and maintain FRDs.
  • 7.Working on Blockchain's POC
  • 8. RPA
Backlog ManagementProblem SolvingProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement DefinitionEmerging TechnologiesPosition Papers+18

Johnson & johnson

Analytics Intern

Feb 2016Apr 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Analytics:
  • 1.Specialty market Model:
  • 1.Created a procedure based market model .
  • 2.Involved in restructuring of data and mapping of data.
  • 3.Used macros to update the model with any changes with number.
  • 4.Calculation of market using Selling price, Reuse value of Medical devices,Technology penetration in the country and Number of units.
  • 2. Sensitivity analysis sheet
  • 1.Created a model where sensitivity of introduction of new product, removal of existing product as well as Update in any of details will be tracked with the overall market.
  • 2.Sensitivity at each level is calculated.
  • 3.Helps the marketers to analyse the importance of product for a particular geography.
  • 4.Tool will be used for decision making.
  • 3. Dashboard using Tableau
  • 1. Created 7 multiple analysis points with in a Dashboard.
  • 2. Developed a way to analyse the importance of particular Business units at particular Geography.
  • 3.Creation of multiple parameters in Tableau to make the dashboard convenient and attractive.
  • 4. Captured overall picture required for a Regional head to look on and help to take decisions.
  • 5. Forecasting model
  • 1. Use of regression analysis to forecast the market at Product category across APAC.
  • 2. Automatic model where past values can be inputted and forecasting will be done.
Backlog ManagementProduct Requirement DefinitionCreativity and InnovationCustomer EngagementFit/Gap AnalysisB2G+5

Hsbc global technology india

Business Analyst

Aug 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • As Business Analyst:
  • 1. Responsible for changing settlement currency of Egypt from USD to EGP.
  • 2. All credit card settlements issue.
  • 3. Identification of skimmed card.
  • 4. Production issues like failures of job, performing settlements links availability etc.
  • As Software developer:
  • 1. Developed a link monitoring screen which runs 24x7 to display alerts of ATMs and transactions.
  • 2.Develop a tool to clear all the Emergency programs and objects which are deployed during releases to maintain uniformity in system.
  • 3. Developed a message logging program to log the messages from different links
  • Like Global atms of HSBC,Single message routing network,POS etc.
  • 4.Part of release management team for deploying objects in production.
Backlog ManagementProduct KnowledgeProduct Requirement DefinitionCreativity and InnovationFit/Gap AnalysisTest Cases+3

Education

Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Finance economics and strategy

Jun 2024Present

IMD

Executive program — Digital disruption program

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Welingkar Institute of Management

PGDM — E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce/E-business/IT management/Finance

Jan 2014Jan 2016

IPS ACADEMY, Indore

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2008Jan 2012

RC school

Class 12th — PCM

Jan 1995Jan 2008

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