Sahil Lakdawala

About Sahil Lakdawala

Top-performing executive leader with 16+ years of experience overseeing the product vision, roadmap, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets across global financial institutions. Recognised for building and scaling high-performing product, design, and engineering teams and for leading transformative digital initiatives in identity, access, authentication, onboarding, AI chatbots, payment APIs, and customer experience. Influential change leader who partners with senior executives in Fraud, Cybersecurity, Business, Engineering and Analytics to launch secure, scalable, and customer-centric solutions that align with enterprise goals.A strategic problem-solver with a proven record of reducing fraud losses by $XX million and above targets, achieving cost efficiency, enhancing reusability and reliability, and unlocking new revenue opportunities. Accomplished coach and mentor to students, startups and product managers, drawing from my extensive teaching experience in product management to develop future leaders and drive adoption of best practices of design thinking and agile methodologies for solution discovery, market research, prototyping, and product delivery.Confident communicator and storyteller who engages stakeholders through data-driven insights, compelling presentations, and clear narratives that influence decision-making and accelerate business growth.Working closely with teams across North and South America in the Retail, SME and Wealth business lines to solve technical and functional problems by asking questions, defining problems to build a unified IAM platform across geographies that will be consistent in both technology and experiences and understanding the technologies and approaches in use and those we should be using to drive our objectives for those technical products.

Experience

1. Mentor

   Apm Toronto

   Jan 2025 — Present · Toronto, ON, CA

   Product Management mentor and instructor for the ‘25 Cohort

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

• University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

  Rotman Senior Leadership Program , Business Administration and Management, General

• FLAME University

  MBA, Finance & Marketing

Skills

• Market Research
• Brand Development
• Competitive Analysis
• Blogging
• Advertising
• Wordpress
• Microsoft Excel
• Media Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Business Strategy
• Social Media
• Management
• Marketing
• Copywriting
• Web Design
• Project Management
• Online Marketing
• Brand Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Business Analysis
• Team Management
• Digital Media
• Business Development
• Digital Marketing
• Business Strategy Formulation