Finance & Banking

Experienced individuals involved in financial services, including banking, investment, insurance, and real estate

Monica Inez Lessa Caldeira

Monica Inez Lessa Caldeira

Especialista em agilidade organizacional e transformação digital no Banco do Brasil, com atuação na evolução da governança do Modelo Operacional Ágil. Colabora no desenvolvimento de lideranças e na conexão entre estratégia, execução e geração de valor em ambientes complexos.

Especialista em agilidade organizacional e transformação digital no Banco do Brasil, com atuação na evolução da governança do Modelo Operacional Ágil. Colabora no desenvolvimento de lideranças e na conexão entre estratégia, execução e geração de valo... Show more

Surya Chandra Damerla

Surya Chandra Damerla

Surya Chander Rao Damerla is a Data Engineer with experience across multiple domains, including healthcare, banking, and pharmaceuticals. He has worked extensively on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), building scalable data pipelines and real-time data processing systems. His expertise lies in designing cloud-native architectures, data validation frameworks, and large-scale data migrations. Currently working on healthcare eligibility and reporting systems, he focuses on improving data quality, automation, and compliance through policy-driven and AI-augmented solutions. He is passionate about building reliable and efficient data systems that solve real-world problems.

Surya Chander Rao Damerla is a Data Engineer with experience across multiple domains, including healthcare, banking, and pharmaceuticals. He has worked extensively on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ... Show more

Avinash Sabat

Avinash Sabat

Avinash Sabat is a Principal Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms for large, regulated organizations. His work centers on platform engineering, developer enablement, and operational excellence, creating scalable, secure foundations that allow teams to move faster without sacrificing control. He brings a systems-level perspective that connects cloud engineering, governance, and business outcomes.

Avinash Sabat is a Principal Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms for large, regulated organizations. His work centers on platform engineering, developer enablement, and operational excellenc... Show more

Martin Gjesdal

Martin Gjesdal

Produktleder i Storebrand og Profesjonell Flisespikker

Martin has 25+ years of experience within development and design, and is currently product manager for all digital initiatives in SKAGEN Fondene in Storebrand. He is also 50% of the Flisespikkeriet podcast.

Produktleder i Storebrand og Profesjonell Flisespikker Martin has 25+ years of experience within development and design, and is currently product manager for all digital initiatives in SKAGEN Fondene in Storebrand. He is also 50% of the Flisespikk... Show more

Rytis Tekorius

Rytis Tekorius

Leading a FinTech banking core team by day, making videos by night — Rytis is an IT consultant with 12+ years of experience, too many hobbies, and a rewritten Danish Tax System somewhere in between.

Leading a FinTech banking core team by day, making videos by night — Rytis is an IT consultant with 12+ years of experience, too many hobbies, and a rewritten Danish Tax System somewhere in between. Show more

Rakesh Kumar Jha

Rakesh Kumar Jha

Rakesh Jha is an accomplished IT leader and enterprise architect with over 21 years of experience delivering mission-critical solutions to Fortune 500 insurance clients. Based in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Rakesh currently serves as Manager of Application Delivery at DXC Technology, where he leads large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives and modernization projects.
Specializing in life and annuity administration systems, Rakesh has built a reputation for automating manual processes, optimizing efficiencies, and generating significant cost savings. His technical expertise spans multiple domains, including policy administration, financial reconciliation, cash management, and compliance automation. As a Certified Scrum Master and Associate of the Life Management Institute, he brings both methodology discipline and deep domain knowledge to his projects.
Throughout his career at organizations including DXC Technology, Webilent, Genpact, and TCS, Rakesh has consistently delivered high-impact results. His recent achievements include developing a modern Ledger and Disbursement System projected to save $1.5 million annually, architecting an enterprise-level compliance solution for MetLife, and creating a transformative Common Remitter Tool that modernized group remittance processing across a large financial ecosystem.
Rakesh excels at leading global cross-functional teams across development and production environments. His approach combines strategic vision with meticulous execution, ensuring technology initiatives align perfectly with business goals. He is particularly adept at architecting complex legacy-to-modern transitions, developing hybrid solutions that integrate mainframe systems with cloud-native infrastructures.
A two-time recipient of the DXC Achievement Award, Rakesh continues to drive innovation while maintaining operational excellence for mission-critical systems. His unique blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and insurance domain knowledge makes him a valuable partner in enterprise transformation initiatives.
Rakesh holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur.

Rakesh Jha is an accomplished IT leader and enterprise architect with over 21 years of experience delivering mission-critical solutions to Fortune 500 insurance clients. Based in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Rakesh currently serves as Manager of Applic... Show more

Caio Cesar Soares

Caio Cesar Soares

Caio Cesar Soares is a Staff Platform Engineer at Banco do Brasil, where he builds developer platforms and AI agent systems and leads mainframe-to-cloud modernization. He champions coding agents and InnerSource across thousands of developers through the bank's Internal Developer Platform.

Caio Cesar Soares is a Staff Platform Engineer at Banco do Brasil, where he builds developer platforms and AI agent systems and leads mainframe-to-cloud modernization. He champions coding agents and InnerSource across thousands of developers through ... Show more

Simon Mudd

Simon Mudd

Simon is an Englishman who has been living in Madrid for over 35 years.

He has also lived in the UK and the Netherlands, working in IT and the financial markets.

He is an expert who has been working with both MySQL and MariaDB, managing this infrastructure at scale.
Prior to this he worked with replicated Sybase clusters used for real-time trading systems.

He has two children, enjoys tech, travel and photography.

Simon is an Englishman who has been living in Madrid for over 35 years. He has also lived in the UK and the Netherlands, working in IT and the financial markets. He is an expert who has been working with both MySQL and MariaDB, managing this in... Show more

Aric Rosenbaum

Aric Rosenbaum

Aric serves as the Chief Technologist on Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division and was co-founder/CTO of several FinTechs in equity and FX trading.

Aric serves as the Chief Technologist on Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman S... Show more

Frédéric Valentin

Frédéric Valentin

Head of Wealth Planning - SGPB Europe https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-valentin-ab313920 | Member of Cercle des Fiscalistes (https://www.lecercledesfiscalistes.com) | Member of the IACF - Institute of Tax Lawyers https://www.iacf.fr | Membre of Estate Planning Skill Group (https://epsg.international/fr/)

Head of Wealth Planning - SGPB Europe https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-valentin-ab313920 | Member of Cercle des Fiscalistes (https://www.lecercledesfiscalistes.com) | Member of the IACF - Institute of Tax Lawyers https://www.iacf.fr | Membre of E... Show more

Eduardo Orta Salazar

Eduardo Orta Salazar

Software Engineer | Linux Geek | Coffee Lover | Co-Organizer at Calzada Code

Software Engineer | Linux Geek | Coffee Lover | Co-Organizer at Calzada Code Show more

Joe Eifert

Joe Eifert

Eifert is a software engineer and IT consultant at Oepfelbaum IT Management in Zürich, currently creating at the private bank LGT its next-generation data platform. His team runs automated AI merge request reviews in production. He uses several hundred million LLM tokens a month for programming, so his lessons learned come from daily work, not from demos.

Before banking he co-founded databaum, an agritech startup that onboarded 100 customers in its first season.

Since 2017 he has taught machine learning, web and mobile development at ICT-Berufsbildung Zentralschweiz.

Eifert is a software engineer and IT consultant at Oepfelbaum IT Management in Zürich, currently creating at the private bank LGT its next-generation data platform. His team runs automated AI merge request reviews in production. He uses several hundr... Show more

Max Morgunov

Max Morgunov

Max Morgunov, CFA, serves as Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Oceanic Partners, a private markets investment firm based in Sausalito, California, founded in 2014. The firm makes principal investments in secondary private market opportunities, participates selectively in direct venture capital investments across stages of company development, and offers liquidity solutions for individual and institutional holders of private equity. Oceanic Partners has executed thousands of private transactions valued at over $3 billion across hundreds of companies, which gives Max transaction-level visibility into secondary market pricing and private market liquidity.

Max Morgunov, CFA, serves as Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Oceanic Partners, a private markets investment firm based in Sausalito, California, founded in 2014. The firm makes principal investments in secondary private market opportunitie... Show more

Dhruv Dangwal

Dhruv Dangwal

* Helping engineers build faster, smarter, and more reliable data platforms.
* Making large-scale data engineering practical—from architecture to production.
* Sharing real-world lessons in Spark, Databricks, AI, and cloud engineering.
* Bridging modern data engineering and machine learning in production.

* Helping engineers build faster, smarter, and more reliable data platforms. * Making large-scale data engineering practical—from architecture to production. * Sharing real-world lessons in Spark, Databricks, AI, and cloud engineering. * Bridging ... Show more

Srinivas Lakkireddy

Srinivas Lakkireddy

Srinivas Lakkireddy is a seasoned Cloud and Big Data Architect with over 20 years of experience in building enterprise-grade data solutions across the banking, financial services, and media domains. Currently serving as Senior Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, he leads the architecture and modernization of large-scale Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, focusing on high-performance cloud data pipelines, scalable design, and secure, real-time frameworks. Srinivas is an expert in Apache Spark, AWS (Glue, EMR, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS), Databricks, and Terraform, with deep expertise in designing cloud-native, event-driven architectures. Prior to his current role, he held leadership positions at Discover Financial Services , Nielsen and Northern Trust, where he spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to modern data lakes, architected reporting frameworks, and improved data reliability and performance using advanced analytics platforms. Srinivas is certified as an AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Professional and holds a Databricks Data Engineer Professional certification. His strong foundation in Java, Scala, Python, and cloud technologies is complemented by his commitment to building secure, resilient, and future-ready data ecosystems.

Srinivas Lakkireddy is a seasoned Cloud and Big Data Architect with over 20 years of experience in building enterprise-grade data solutions across the banking, financial services, and media domains. Currently serving as Senior Vice President at JP Mo... Show more

Alex Reich

Alex Reich

Alex Reich is a hands-on .NET engineering leader with 20+ years building secure, scalable systems across banking/fintech, media, e-commerce, and SaaS. He’s currently a freelance consultant specializing in the dotnet stack w/specializations with finance and security systems. Alex has been working full stack development in .NET/SQL/Angular/React while mentoring engineers and driving modern architecture patterns. Currently, Alex serves as a Senior Principal Software Architect at Deltek. Previously, he served as VP/Director of Software Development at Mechanics Bank, leading cross-functional teams and helping deliver a PPP platform that processed more than $1.2B in loans.

Alex is also Co-founder/CTO of Acorn Jr, a modern SaaS platform built on React, .NET, SignalR, Docker, Postgres, Redis, and AI-assisted tooling—focused on real-time workflows and reliability at scale. He contributes to open source and enjoys turning hard-earned “production lessons” into practical patterns teams can use immediately. He is also a contributor to Microsoft RulesEngine and authored RulesEngineEditor, a Blazor-based rules editor.

Outside of tech, he teaches meditation and is an endurance runner, including the Avalon 50 Miler.

Selected prior speaking / community leadership
• Presented at Microsoft Developer Days (III–V) and developer groups including OCSQLUG, TRINUG, FANUG, LA Django, and IBM OCEAN.
• Delivered an MSDN Webcast on ASP.NET security (October 2004), scoring 7.9—above the event average.
• Served two terms as President of the Orange County Visual Basic Users Group: brought the group out of debt, established its first web presence, and produced DevCon ’98 with industry speakers (including Paul Sheriff, Allison Balter, and Ken Getz), ultimately creating a cash surplus.
• Founded and led additional .NET user groups (Triangle .NET Users Group and Findlay Area .NET Users Group), including bylaws, domains, and officer mentoring.
• Co-authored VB 5.0 Unleashed (Sams Publishing, Volumes 1 & 2).
• Built consumer apps including Oops I’m Late! for Smartphones and Calendar To Map; previously a member of the Microsoft-curated Southern California .NET Influencers Group.

Alex Reich is a hands-on .NET engineering leader with 20+ years building secure, scalable systems across banking/fintech, media, e-commerce, and SaaS. He’s currently a freelance consultant specializing in the dotnet stack w/specializations with finan... Show more

Suneel Kumar Rawat

Suneel Kumar Rawat

Suneel Rawat is a senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) leader with over 20 years of global experience delivering enterprise-scale security and identity solutions across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, IGA, and SSO technologies, having led complex implementations and transformations for Fortune 500 companies and highly regulated organizations in financial services, healthcare, telecom, and government sectors.
Currently serving as Principal Engineer - Identity Access Management at Navy Federal Credit Union, Suneel drives IAM strategy, architecture, and delivery, focusing on scalable, compliant, and secure identity frameworks. His expertise spans leading platforms including Saviynt, SailPoint IIQ, OKTA, Oracle OIM/OIG, and CyberArk, with deep proficiency in RBAC, SOD, lifecycle management, access certifications, and audit readiness.
Throughout his career, Suneel has architected and delivered mission-critical IAM programs for organizations such as UBS Switzerland, Kaiser Permanente, Charles Schwab, Verizon, IBM, and SMBC Capital Markets. He is known for designing custom connectors, advanced workflows, and automation that streamline identity governance while strengthening enterprise security posture.
A certified professional across multiple IAM platforms, Suneel combines strong technical depth with executive-level leadership, cross-cultural collaboration, and a proven record of driving innovation, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance at scale.

Suneel Rawat is a senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) leader with over 20 years of global experience delivering enterprise-scale security and identity solutions across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a recognized Subject Matter Exp... Show more

Anny He

Anny He

Anny was a Staff Engineer at LegalZoom and Imply, and worked as an engineer at companies including Salesforce, Splunk, and a seed stage AI startup.
She founded Allpaca AI study group https://luma.com/allpaca?period=past, an online engineering community, and created #financial-buddy, a personal finance group at Splunk. She focuses on the intersection of technology, personal finance, and wellness, and lived in San Francisco for 8 years before moving to Henderson, Nevada.
She blogs about mindful AI at https://aiturtle.substack.com/

Anny was a Staff Engineer at LegalZoom and Imply, and worked as an engineer at companies including Salesforce, Splunk, and a seed stage AI startup. She founded Allpaca AI study group https://luma.com/allpaca?period=past, an online engineering commun... Show more

Nina Grygorenko

Nina Grygorenko

Nina Grygorenko is Product Owner for Sales and Services in Digital Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank with over 9 years of experience in the financial industry.
A seasoned professional in Business Analysis and Product development, Nina Grygorenko embarked on her career as as an intern in Operational Risk Management in Deutsche Bank and transitioned last year in Digital Corporate Bank, leading Sales & Services product development as IT PO in multicultural team.

Nina Grygorenko is Product Owner for Sales and Services in Digital Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank with over 9 years of experience in the financial industry. A seasoned professional in Business Analysis and Product development, Nina Grygorenko emba... Show more

Aki Asahara

Aki Asahara

Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performance engineering for large-scale AI training and inference workloads. His work spans autonomous driving, finance, healthcare, and industrial AI applications, with expertise in distributed training, mixed-precision optimization, and cluster-level observability on NVIDIA H100/H200/B200 architectures.

Aki serves as a Session Chair and Speaker at HPC Asia 2026 and has delivered invited talks at multiple GenAI-focused conferences in Japan. He also represents Fixstars as an exhibitor at the Supercomputing Conference (SC). He contributes to publications in AI systems performance engineering and leads industry projects that significantly improve throughput and cost efficiency.

Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performanc... Show more

Sai Turlapati

Sai Turlapati

Sai Turlapati is the Founder and CEO of DStrategyTech, a technology consulting and AI solutions company focused on helping organizations embrace digital transformation. He leads initiatives across AI, enterprise applications, data, security, and Microsoft technologies while building practical solutions that create measurable business value. Sai is also the author of the weekly *Enterprise AI Digest* and an active researcher in AI, enterprise systems, and financial cybercrime.

Sai Turlapati is the Founder and CEO of DStrategyTech, a technology consulting and AI solutions company focused on helping organizations embrace digital transformation. He leads initiatives across AI, enterprise applications, data, security, and Micr... Show more

Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is a published author, Enterprise Architect, Collaborator, Unifier. Shaping Comerica Bank/Fifth-Third AI evolution with real solutions via technology, strategy, security, and deployment.

Peter Serzo is a published author, Enterprise Architect, Collaborator, Unifier. Shaping Comerica Bank/Fifth-Third AI evolution with real solutions via technology, strategy, security, and deployment. Show more

Prajakta Talathi

Prajakta Talathi

Prajakta Talathi is a Strategic Analytics and Marketing Performance leader with over 16 years of experience across FinTech, consulting, and the services industry. She specializes in building enterprise-wide reporting and analytics ecosystems that enable organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions.

Her work focuses on optimizing acquisition marketing funnels, developing forecasting and planning models, and delivering channel and segment performance measurement frameworks that improve marketing efficiency and business growth. Prajakta is also deeply involved in data modernization initiatives, helping organizations transition from legacy reporting environments to scalable, cloud-based data and analytics platforms that support real-time insights and advanced analytics.

She is known for bridging the gap between technical data teams and business leadership, including the C-suite, translating complex analytics into actionable strategic insights. Prajakta has led the transformation of traditional reporting functions into intelligent, cloud-enabled, self-serve platforms by leveraging automation and AI—enabling faster strategic planning, improved decision-making, and greater operational agility.

Prajakta Talathi is a Strategic Analytics and Marketing Performance leader with over 16 years of experience across FinTech, consulting, and the services industry. She specializes in building enterprise-wide reporting and analytics ecosystems that ena... Show more

Victor Mambu

Victor Mambu

Victor Mambu is an Information Systems professional, IT Auditor, youth advocate, and dynamic public speaker from Sierra Leone with a strong passion for digital transformation and inclusive governance in Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), University of Sierra Leone, a Master’s degree in Information Systems with a specialization in Project Management at Njala University.

Victor currently serves as an IT Auditor at Rokel Commercial Bank Sierra Leone Limited where he contributes to strengthening technology governance, cybersecurity oversight, digital risk management, and institutional resilience within the banking sector. His professional interests include IT governance, cybersecurity, digital policy, and the role of emerging technologies in advancing sustainable development across Africa.

Beyond his corporate role, Victor is widely known as MC VIKMA an accomplished event host and communication professional recognized for engaging diverse audiences and facilitating high-level conversations across public and private sector platforms. He is deeply committed to youth empowerment and believes that young people must play a central role in shaping Africa’s digital future.

Victor actively advocates for greater youth participation, gender inclusion, digital literacy, and equitable access to digital opportunities. Through his work, he seeks to bridge the gap between technology, governance, and community impact, championing a digital ecosystem where young Africans are not just users of technology, but active contributors to policy and innovation.

Victor Mambu is an Information Systems professional, IT Auditor, youth advocate, and dynamic public speaker from Sierra Leone with a strong passion for digital transformation and inclusive governance in Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree ... Show more

Lehel Iszlai

Lehel Iszlai

I'm a software engineer and engineering leader with 15+ years in backend and distributed systems, specializing in fintech and investment banking. Currently, I focus on ledger systems and reconciliation, building scalable, high-performance solutions.
I've led multiple teams (up to 20 engineers) from Series B to IPO, scaling payments, ledger, and reconciliation systems while driving key processes like incident management, career frameworks, and coaching. With a strong product engineering mindset, I bridge engineering and business needs to deliver real impact.

I'm a software engineer and engineering leader with 15+ years in backend and distributed systems, specializing in fintech and investment banking. Currently, I focus on ledger systems and reconciliation, building scalable, high-performance solutions. ... Show more

Alan O'Shanghnessy

Alan O'Shanghnessy

I'm a Solution Architect working in New Zealand's banking sector, and I consult and advise on AI, Data, and Enterprise Architecture. I've spent years designing and delivering technology solutions in enterprise environments. Some of them worked beautifully. Some of them taught me more than I expected.

That's probably the most honest thing I can say about my experience: I've been close enough to the mistakes to understand why they keep happening. Organizations that over-invest in credentials while under-investing in trust. Teams that confuse effort with progress. Leaders who chase tooling trends and wonder why the business outcomes never follow. I've been in those rooms. I've made some of those calls myself.

What I bring to a stage is not a framework or a methodology. It's pattern recognition from delivery, the kind you only get from building things, watching them break, and figuring out what actually went wrong (not what the post-mortem said went wrong).

My advisory work sits at the intersection of technology strategy and business performance. I work with executives and technical leaders on enterprise data and AI maturity, cloud architecture, and the operating model decisions that quietly determine whether a technology investment delivers value or just burns budget. I also advise individuals and businesses on performance improvement, because, in my view, the same patterns that stall organizations tend to stall careers.

I'm currently pursuing a Master's at MIT and I hold Azure architecture certifications. But I'll be the first to say: credentials open doors. Trust is what keeps you in the room.

I speak on common mistakes in AI and data strategy, enterprise architecture anti-patterns, and the gap between what organizations plan and what they actually ship.

I'm a Solution Architect working in New Zealand's banking sector, and I consult and advise on AI, Data, and Enterprise Architecture. I've spent years designing and delivering technology solutions in enterprise environments. Some of them worked beauti... Show more

Marina Pochinok

Marina Pochinok

Professor of Practice | Corporate Governance| Organizational Transformation|Leadership|Talent management
Independent Director | Executive Coach | Author | Forbes Columnist
UAE
📧 pochinokm@gmail.com | +971 52 300 9280
Brief profile
Global business leader and professor of practice with over 20 years of international experience in corporate governance, organizational behavior, leadership development and large-scale transformation. Brings a rare combination of hands-on business leadership, governance experience, academic depth and coaching practice — a mix enabling students and executives to develop sound judgment, leadership maturity and decision-making in complex and uncertain environments.
Academic Appointments
• Visiting professor of Pleakhanov University, Dubai
• Professor of business practice, Skolkovo School of Management, Matena Business School (Armenia)
• Teaching experience: 15+ years (high and exective education)
Teaching areas
• Personal strategy and career development
• Talent management and HR
• Organizational behavior and leadership
• Change management
• Teaming
• Future readiness and resilience
• Managing mind to achieve great results

Professional Experience
• Independent director and Board advisor (public and private companies)
Award: Best Independent Director of Russia, 2023
• Senior leadership roles: Auriga (IT), TNK-BP (oil and gas), Philips (consumer electronics), Sberbank (fintech)
• Vice President of Workforce, Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Led workforce strategy for 75,000+ employees and volunteers
• IOC Expert (People management and executive coaching)
Tokyo 2020, PyeongChang 2018, Beijing 2019, Baku 2019, Sarajevo 2018, Paris 2024
Publications
• Author of 3 books on leadership
• Forbes columnist (governance, leadership, organizational change)
Education
• PhD, Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Moscow State University
• Corporate MBA, INSEAD
• Strategic HR Certification, Thunderbird School of Global Management
• Strategic Innovation in Business, Oxford Saïd Business School
• Prosci Change Management Certification
• Neurochangesolutions
• Certified in Game Change Index, Immunity to Change (Robert Kegan), Leadership Maturity Framework (Susanne Cook-Greuter), Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coaching, Team Coaching (David Clutterbuck), TMSDI, and other methodologies. Additionally certified in the HeartMath Coherence Approach, integrating heart-focused practices into leadership and resilience training.
Languages
English (fluent) | Russian (native)

Professor of Practice | Corporate Governance| Organizational Transformation|Leadership|Talent management Independent Director | Executive Coach | Author | Forbes Columnist UAE 📧 pochinokm@gmail.com | +971 52 300 9280 Brief profile G... Show more

Jill Tague

Jill Tague

Jill Tague doesn't teach design — she takes you somewhere.

A Principal UX Designer with 10 years in FinTech, Jill has spent her career making complex systems human. But her talks go further than the screen. She brings design principles to life through travel stories — real moments from real places — that make you feel why something matters before you ever memorize what it's called.

Because the best design lessons aren't definitions. They're experiences you carry with you.

Jill Tague doesn't teach design — she takes you somewhere. A Principal UX Designer with 10 years in FinTech, Jill has spent her career making complex systems human. But her talks go further than the screen. She brings design principles to life thr... Show more

Ammar Jubril

Ammar Jubril

Ammar Jubril is a Technology Consultant at KPMG with experience across data science, analytics, business intelligence, software solutions, and product strategy within consulting, banking, and mobility sectors.

He has worked on analytics and technology initiatives that improved operational efficiency, strengthened decision-making, enhanced revenue performance, and supported risk and fraud management across fast-growing organizations. His work spans financial services, digital products, data platforms, and emerging technology solutions.

Beyond consulting, Ammar is the founder of Rizara, an African-origin, AI-powered halal wealth management platform focused on helping underserved investors access ethical and intelligent wealth-building opportunities through Sharia-compliant investment tools, financial education, and AI-driven portfolio insights.

His interests sit at the intersection of financial technology, artificial intelligence, wealth management, Islamic finance, and emerging markets innovation. He is particularly passionate about building globally relevant technology products from Africa that solve real financial problems at scale.

Ammar frequently speaks on topics related to data science, AI, fintech innovation, behavioral analytics, product intelligence, and the future of ethical finance in emerging markets.

Ammar Jubril is a Technology Consultant at KPMG with experience across data science, analytics, business intelligence, software solutions, and product strategy within consulting, banking, and mobility sectors. He has worked on analytics and techno... Show more

Umamaheswara Rao Kukkala

Umamaheswara Rao Kukkala

Lead Data Engineer with extensive experience designing and operating large-scale enterprise data platforms and analytics infrastructure in the financial services industry.

My work focuses on building highly reliable, scalable, and cloud-native data systems that support mission-critical analytics, regulatory reporting, and data-driven decision making.

I specialize in:

• Enterprise data platform architecture

• Modernizing legacy ETL ecosystems into scalable cloud data pipelines

• Distributed data processing and analytics infrastructure

• Data reliability engineering and operational excellence

• Large-scale cloud data platforms using Databricks and Google Cloud

In my current role I contribute to the architecture, modernization, and operational reliability of enterprise data platforms supporting critical banking analytics workloads.

I frequently collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable data solutions that align with long-term platform strategy.

My professional interests include:

• Data platform reliability engineering

• Cloud-native analytics architectures

• Scalable data pipeline orchestration

• Data engineering automation and observability

Lead Data Engineer with extensive experience designing and operating large-scale enterprise data platforms and analytics infrastructure in the financial services industry. My work focuses on building highly reliable, scalable, and cloud-native dat... Show more

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