AJIT KADREKAR 917-***-**** Email: adwnql@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

• 20+ years of Product Management experience driving business strategy, digital transformation, business technology innovation and process improvement initiatives in Financial Services, Content Management and Marketing domains.

• Effectively managed and delivered large scale transformations from conceptualization to implementation that involved ideation, building roadmaps, designing solutions and leading teams spread across multiple locations

• Effectively led product, operations and engineering teams for several key product launches in agile execution model

Education

• Cleared Level III exam of CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) program

• MBA from IIM Calcutta – Specialization: Finance & Marketing

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics from VJTI, Mumbai Professional Experience

eBay Sr Director (Jul 2021 - Till date)

In eBay, my primary responsibility is leading product development and program management for Customer Growth & Marketing. I have also performed additional role of interim Engineering lead for Marketing technology that required managing a team of 90 comprised of engineers, product managers and program managers. Role & Contribution:

• Directed product strategy, roadmap development and execution of AI-driven CMS platform spanning data science models, mobile, front-end, and back-end systems.

• Led a team of product managers and operations team responsible for orchestrating customer marketing campaigns with features such as customer personalization, audience management, standardized tracking, experimentation and localization.

• Reengineered and launch Feeds platform to support eBay Partner Network, Google, Facebook and Pinterest feeds.

• Conceptualized roadmap for Customer 360 platform to manage centralized audience targeting across all channels and led audience strategy across lifecycle core and sub audiences.

• Drove General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance for marketing and advertising

• Migration of content authoring & orchestration functionality from Adobe tools to internal next-gen marketing platform resulting in enhanced functionality and annual cost savings of $2.0m.

• Led development of Performance Marketing Platform which operates at the scale of >$10 billion GMB annually. Capgemini Financial Services Director (May 2003 - Jun 2021) In Capgemini, my primary responsibility was leading consulting assignments for clients in financial services industry and building solutions in analytics domain. I have also been performing the role of Practice manager that requires working with Account Management team and supporting business growth and new initiatives within client development space. Key responsibilities:

• Conceptualize solutions that can be pitched to financial services clients while building PoVs and case studies as sales collateral. Worked on solutions in the space of Credit risk management, LIBOR transition, ESG investing solutions such as ESG-Linked Goals Based Advice, ESG Insights and ESG Screener.

• Responsible for managing and growing relationships within client account

• Formulate growth plans and strategy for the account based on market trends and client requirements

• Consulting practice management, sales proposals and offer development

• Oversee managed service project delivery that involved revenue forecasting, cost/margin management and people management

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Key Client Engagements:

Platform migration & New Product launch (Client: Goldman Sachs Bank USA) Jan 2019 – Jun 2021 Product Director Capgemini (New York)

Details:

This was a large program ($50M+) for transformation of core banking platform to deliver an industry leading Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform on cloud architecture and launch new retail banking product. Role & Contribution:

• Worked with C-level executives and busines leaders to evaluate options and develop an agreed solution with product roadmap.

• Established the operating model of the program and baselining scope for multiple program phases with business stakeholders and external vendors.

• Create product roadmap and develop product briefs for product launch of Checking account including product features, money movement features, content management processes and debit card management.

• Key focus on communications and content management by integrating with 3rd party data vendors and implementing advanced analytics to track engagement.

• Provide leadership and strategic direction to the product development, operations & technology platform teams Digital Transformation (Client: Moody’s Investor Service) Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 Transformation Lead & Senior Product Manager Capgemini (New York) Details:

This was a major multi-year digital transformation project to deliver a Quote to Cash platform that would improve execution of the agency’s business processes thereby accelerating delivery of ratings products and services to the market. Role & Contribution:

• Led the analysis of end-to-end current state business processes and development of detailed future state roadmap enabled by digital technologies and aligned to new Target Operating model.

• Led the team of product managers and product owners that generated requirements and user stories for consumption by agile development teams.

• Drove automation of documented fee rules to support automated pricing engine and maintenance process Counterparty Credit Risk Management (Client: JPMC) Aug 2011 – Dec 2014 Senior Product Manager Capgemini (New York)

Details: Implementation of a strategic platform for managing counterparty credit risk of OTC derivatives portfolio and migration from legacy credit risk platforms to the strategic platform. This new platform was based on Monte Carlo simulation engine and responsible for computing MTM, Exposure, CVA, DVA and Sensitivities. Role & Contribution:

• Managed on-boarding of various OTC Derivative trades such as Credit derivatives, Equity options and FX forwards

• Worked with business partners in the modeling and quantitative finance teams to understand needs and identify solutions in a fast-paced environment

• Assisted in implementing various methodologies such as Equity Relatedness, Differential Discounting, FX relatedness and Basel III Implementation rules.

• Design specifications for various reference data, market inputs, position data and downstream feeds

• Perform stress runs and portfolio level scenario analysis to test scenario impacts Analytics Platform - Private Equity funds (Client: Morgan Stanley) Sep 2007 – Jul 2011 Business Consultant & Senior Product Manager Capgemini (New York) Details: The assignment involved process re-engineering and implementation of robust financial models and automated workflow for Revenue forecasting and Investor reporting functions of Real Estate and Private Equity funds. Role & Contribution:

• Developing roadmap for transforming the process from excel based analysis to digital analytics platform

• Led development of analytics platform designed to perform valuations and support revenue forecasting and investor reporting across various Private equity funds AJIT KADREKAR

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• Build models that capture all revenue/cost components, perform waterfall analysis and predict performance indicators like forecasted revenue, projected IRR and NPV.

• Conceptualized and spearheaded design of overall process workflow and control mechanism to help finance controller group aggregate Reg W inputs and streamline data analysis

• Managing a team of Business analysts and Financial modelers Co-Brand Originations Platform (Client: HSBC Bank) June 2006 – Aug 2007 Business Product Manager Capgemini (Chicago & Pune) Details: The assignment involved driving co-brand platform strategy of Originations platform for Retail Co-Brand cards resulting in improving conversion rates and reduced cost of managing multiple card platforms. Role & Contribution:

• Evaluation of alternative platform solutions based on forecasted cost-benefit analysis and risk evaluation

• Creation of Impact Analysis report to evaluate business and technical viability of the recommended solution.

• Create feature roadmap covering multiple technology platforms supported by project plan and effort estimation Credit Risk COE (Client: HSBC Bank) January 2004 – May 2006 Product Manager Capgemini (Chicago & Pune)

Details: The project involved building expertise in the domain of credit risk management and facilitate scalable model for development of scorecard models.

Role & Contribution:

• Led a team of analytical programmers to implement credit risk scorecard models for various business units namely Credit Cards, Mortgage, Retail, Auto lending for different regions (Turkey, UK, Middle East etc.).

• Develop strategies/business rules for predictive scoring models to generate Behavior Score, Payment Projection Score and Collections Improvement Score for making product offers, product pricing and manage delinquencies.

• Validation and Champion-Challenger evaluation of scoring models using various Estimator testing tools Operational Risk Assessment – EUC Compliance (Client: HSBC Bank) July 2003 – December 2003 Business Analyst Capgemini (Buffalo)

Details: This project involved Risk assessment of various business units within HSBC bank to analyze compliance with End- User Computing policy.

Role & Contribution:

• Document workflows of HSBC Mortgage, HSBC Analytics business and HSBC Commercial Banking units

• Performed risk evaluation for non-compliant processes that helped prioritize and target risk remediation efforts.

• Recommended solutions to mitigate the risk for high-risk non-compliance processes within the business units American Express Analyst (Apr 2002 – Jun 2002)

I was a member of the internal consultancy group for American Express Ltd that specialized in Six Sigma quality projects related of Finance and Accounting processes. The projects executed were:

• Reducing the open items in Reconciliation process by 50%. This involved statistical analysis of open items data to identify the nature of open items and find trends & patterns

• Analyzing the 'Journal Voucher Review policy' to improve detection rate and minimizing the re-occurrence of errors. Tata Infotech Ltd Business Analyst (Aug 1998 – Mar 2001) In Tata Infotech, my primary role was Consulting and Development of technology solutions. Key Client Engagements executed for Tata Infotech:

• Business Analyst for developing UniTrade; a comprehensive banking product for Trade Finance activities that provides a workflow-driven solution for processing a wide range of trade finance instruments.

• Designing and developing a Data warehouse System for GE Plastics to consolidate data automatically from multiple regions and multiple sites into a common data model while providing drill-down capability on key information to facilitate analysis for strategic decision making.

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