Amit Kumar

About Amit Kumar

An experienced business leader having 23+ years of experience across Product, Technology,…

Experience

1. Senior Vice President - Head of Product and Market Operations

   Indian Energy Exchange (IEX)

   Nov 2018 — Present

   Part of the 4-member management team responsible for planning and driving the growth of the core Exchange platform business, and for identifying the diversification business opportunities- Board of Director Member at International Carbon Exchange Private Limited (my DIN Number – 10••••95), which is a 100% subsidiary of Indian Energy Exchange - Member of three key Board level committees at Indian Energy Exchange – Risk Assessment and Management Committee (RAMC), Market Surveillance Committee (MSC), Settlement Guarantee Fund (SGF) Management Committee, and each of three committees are headed by an Independent Director of the company’s Board of Directors- Lead the Product Management team to drive revenue growth for the Exchange platform through the launch of new Products, and through enhancement to the existing Products - Lead the Market Operations team to manage all functions of the Exchange Platform (Registration, Bidding, Scheduling, and Clearing and Settlement), to ensure Regulatory and Process compliance, and to drive Customer Experience improvement - Build a high-performance Market Operations and Product Management team - Define and implement the Digital and Process Transformation initiatives for the Exchange platform, and for the internal business processes - Build Analytics solutions to enable effective business decision making for the Market participants - Currently, I also hold the responsibility of the interim CTO role and lead the Software Development, Software Audit, Enterprise IT, and Production IT teams to launch customer experience transformation and volume growth technology solutions, and also to ensure High Availability, Security, and Scalability of our technology platform

Education

• Saint Xaviers School, Bokaro Steel City

  10th Standard, ICSE

  1984 — 1994

• Delhi Public School

  12th Standard, Maths and Science with Accounts

  1994 — 1996

• Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering

  1996 — 2000

• Indian School of Business

  MBA, Strategy and Finance

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Business Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Retail
• Pre-Sales
• Training
• IT Strategy
• Key Account Management
• Business Process
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• Management
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Competitive Analysis
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Product Management
• Software Project Management
• Team Management
• Global Delivery
• Team Building