Venkatesan Gopalan

About Venkatesan Gopalan

Highly dedicated IT professional with over 24 years experience. Extensive experience in establishing and managing Payments Practice organization/CoE, Delivery and Program management in Banking and Financial Services applications across multiple geographies. Held leadership positions with the responsibility of client engagement, Go to Market, solutions, revenue growth, delivery and profitability. Proficient at leading initiatives from ideation, solutioning, planning till Execution. EXPERIENCE AREA Business – Banking - Payments, Channels, Travel & Hospitality Technology – Open Systems, Web Enabled Systems. General – Consulting, Solutions, Delivery

Experience

1. Practice Management Engagement Delivery

   Capgemini

   May 2016 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   India Practice Head for Payments CoE - Revenue 32 Mn Eur-Ideation and product build/servicing catering to client needs for deals of various sizes-Managing exec relationships to co-create and co-invest solutions-Consult, Design and Implemented SEPA Instant, ISO migration, Payment Hub roadmap solutions-Developing accelerators, working with Payment Hub Alliance partners viz, FIS, Finastra for GTM and delivery support-Delivery: Managed the Budget, Milestones, Scope and Margin in T&M and fixed price engagement- Implement controls and governance to ensure on-time, on-budget and quality outcome.Go-to Market- Anchor proposals and solutions across various Geo locations- Driving Alliance partnership with Industry solution providers – FIS, Finastra- Topic based proactive pitches and response to RFPs across Globe (E.g: ISO20022, CBPR+, SEPA Instant, PSD2)Relationship Management- Senior Leaders and CXO relationship - Industry events and Alliance partnership- Technology trend updates and opportunitiesInception to Delivery in Banking (Budget ~ £ 20 M)-Strong Delivery Experience with global banking clients viz, Nordea, Lloyds, HSBC, BOA, SCB, YBS, BAJ in Retail and Corporate Banking-Ability to work with and influence large teams (500+) in delivering large scale IT programs within schedule, quality and cost-Multi country Payments program roll out (15Mn Eur) – DD mandate, duplicate check, Channels-Multi Channel integration and optimization for Retail-Multi country Business releases for Internet and Mobile baking Sales and Service functions (18 Mn GBP)

Education

• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

  Diploma in Advanced Computing

  1999 — 2000

• SRM Engineering college, University of Madras

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• IT Strategy
• Sdlc
• Soa
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Pre-Sales
• Agile Methodologies
• Solution Architecture
• Global Delivery
• Project Management
• Integration
• Program Management
• Service Delivery
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Business Relationship Management
• Unix