Bharat Pathiavadi

Managing the Global expansion of Citi's Wholesale Cards Product processor platforms (Prepaid and Commercial cards across 50+ countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas). Scope of the role includes but is not limited to managing:
- Business, Ops, Tech Infrastructure & Vendor/partner relationships
- Projects being executed globally and releases on existing platforms.
- Application Support groups across Europe, Asia and the US.
- Process Improvements & Best practices, Strategic planning, Budgets, Enterprise-scale Solution Patterns, Global application deployments.
- Business, Process, System and Application Architecture including Service oriented architectures.
- Structured methodologies and transformational technologies.

Our EMEA platform migration/standardisation project won the Technology Award in 2008 for CORE BANKING from 'The Banker', and was featured in the June 2008 issue of 'The Banker'.

On-site and offshore roles including but not limited to:
- Sales support, Market intelligence and Business development
- Technology Project/Operations Management
- Process analysis & standardization and Business analysis

The scope of the role encompassed the complete SDLC for Processor/Datawarehousing Platforms and related systems such as Decision Support Systems, MIS/EIS, CRM, Campaign management / Analytics and BI/BPM/Business Analytics projects in the retail banking, enterprise/corporate banking & wealth management domains at several multinational banks.

The role also included deputation to work at client sites with two major clients:
- Hyundai Group (Hyundai Capital/Hyundai Cards) on behalf of GE Money for work on a CRM/Campaign management Analytics project
- Citi for work on an Executive Reporting BI Platform and work on building a Commercial/prepaid cards processor platform

Accenture GmbH (Previously known as Andersen Consulting ASG).
Financial Services - Banking: Development, testing, version & configuration management in a business cum technical engagement for Deutsche Bank, building their online brokerage site – Maxblue.
A functional testing role with Commerzbank on Project I-PLUS, Frankfurt, Germany: Functional Testing on the datamart/CRM system used by Client consultants (Kundenberaters) to service 6 million customers across Germany.

Heading the management consulting business (1995-1999) in India and South East Asia including client acquisition & client services such as project feasibility, research, management & finance (startups/SMEs), accounting information & internal control systems (design/review), general management, human resources etc. Specific areas included but were not limited to:
1. Business strategy
2. Business process improvement
3. Change management
4. Organizational development
5. Outsourcing core / non-core processes
6. Legal services - Corporate Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property and Contracts