Nitesh Thadani

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ABOUT NITESH THADANI

Technology and product leader with commercial awareness and passionate about leveraging the power of technology to transform business models and launch platforms/products to drive top and bottom line improvements. Always enjoyed learning new technologies, building autonomous engineering teams (nothing better than self motivated teams), and solving complex business or technology challenges, with the goal to pursue competitive advantage and/or commercial efficiencies. I’ve also had the privilege of starting two product companies and a consultancy.Appointed by VC / PE firms to serve as a CTO/CIO for portfolio of businesses, driving product launches, making data driven decisions, carve outs, conducting technical due diligence, cloud migrations, digital transformations and post acquisition integrations.Provided support to CEOs and CFOs, evaluating the viability of products and services, crafting comprehensive revenue plans spanning five years, and devising technology and product strategies aimed at improving annual recurring revenue (ARR). Experienced with a wide range of financial services and management of technology programs in fintech & related vertical. Some instances of changes & growth delivered - Led a cohort of 8 starts-ups from Idea to launch- Led Barclays\' corporate lending systems across 17 countries (Asia, Europe, and Africa), including a platform rollout- Led the technical due diligence to facilitate for the acquisition of a £100M business- Launched a B2B payments and procurement platform, and embedded finance solutions like escrow, split payments, invoice factoring and currency conversions- Pivoted a CMS product to a quantitative SaaS data product with metered-billing; Increased revenues by ~25% from £26M to £32M- Designed and developed applications in regulated sectors and implement required controls for compliance and certifications like ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPPA- Product launch in UAE / Caribbean and managed operational, legal and regulatory requirements, along with associated cost implications, with a focus on data laws and retention - Working with UK DSIT on digital identies and advising on the trust framework Core Competencies:Technology & Product Delivery, Architecture, Private Equity, Banking, Scale-ups, Product, Digital & IT Strategy, Data Strategy, SaaS, Financial Services, FinTech, Digital Transformation, Cloud Migrations, InsureTech, Media & Publishing, Machine Learning, IoT, Digital ID, Mortgages, Architecture, Visual Contracts