Avinash Deshpande

About Avinash Deshpande

I am a business leader experienced in software & services. I specialize in my ability to manage the triage of people, product, and market / customers As part of a rewarding career, I have been navigating dynamic organizations, adapting to different ways of workings, driving growth via business centric software and services primarily in Fintech domain. I have developed and empowered teams across geographies (GDM). Specifically India, US, UK, Nordics and Baltic countries leveraging onshore-nearshore-offshore models for operational scale and efficiency.I leverage my global leadership experience to bridge gap between strategic vision and operational reality via alignment of cross-functional teams, communication to deliver organizational OKRs.Key Impact Areas: • Growth Focus: Turned around Wealth software business from cash-cow to profitable growth with the rule-of-40 mindset in the Nordics market. Drove capitalized development to launch new offerings in existing market. I engage with customers directly to identify and resolve business challenges. • Global Operations: Empowered multi-cultural distributed organization of more than 400 to drive fully integrated software product lifecycle management, aligning market needs with product roadmaps and professional services. Focus on reduction in technical debt, improvements in CI/CD pipelines and service governance. Resulting in higher NPS and eNPS. • Fintech Innovation: Built and delivered business case to enable SaaS business model for existing on-prem software suite. Focus on cloud strategy, pricing and contract model, investments. • Cultural Leadership: Breaking silos was the primary people agenda for the organization, Established multiple communication channels, forums. Encouraged cross location line organizations and travel fostering \"One Team\" mindset and collaboration across environments and work cultures. • Transformation: A major market event resulted in three parallel mission critical deals (sales to implementation), involving large-scale migrations of trading platforms from legacy to modern system including huge historical data. I was the chair of strategic steer-co with customer CxOs. • Organizational Strategy: I co-developed long-term business strategies and financial frames to prepare the organization for public listing. I played a key role in drafting investor presentations and participating in analyst interviews, ensuring our growth narrative and operational metrics resonated with the investment community.

Experience

1. Vice President of Engineering

   Impetus

   Apr 2026 — Present

Education

• Pune Vidhyarthi Griha's College Of Engineering And Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1991 — 1995