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Michael Araneta
Head of Research and Advisory for IDC Financial Insights at IDCMichael Araneta is Head of Research and Advisory for IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific. Araneta's work for IDC and the IDC Financial Insights team has proven that he is the go-to analyst for a broad range of strategic and tactical issues for Asia/Pacific banks and insurers. Araneta leads the research team that has built a panel of over 300 decision-makers in financial services, identifying the drivers of technology investments of the region’s leading institutions. Araneta’s team is known for thought leadership, defining the themes that will define growth and investment for the industry. In 2019, the team will focus on giving advice on mergers and acquisitions, digital banking and digital insurance, Open Banking and Open Insurance, Big Data and Artificial intelligence, customer centricity and CRM initiatives, and core system modernization.
Srikanth Venkatesan
Head of APAC Insurance at CognizantSrikanth Venkatesan is the Head of APAC Insurance business for Cognizant and an AVP within Cognizant Consulting’s Insurance Practice. He has 25+ years of experience in the insurance industry across consulting and IT services. Srikanth has managed multiple high-value strategic business and IT programs for large insurance companies in North America, South America, the UK, the Middle East, India, China, Korea, Southeast Asia and Australia. He has wide experience in consulting with various life and P&C insurance companies across geographical environments. He has helped clients with setup, business process definitions, business process reengineering, IT project and program management, managing IT operations, selection of software systems, development, implementation and support.
Srikanth can be reached at Srikanth.Venkatesan2@cognizant.com| www.linkedin.com/in/srikanthvenkatesan
Nishanth Ramesh
Lead Consultant & Practioner, Analytics, Performance & Compliance Management at CognizantNishanth is a seasoned Lead Consultant & practitioner, with proven techno-function expertise in providing solutions in Finance Analytics, Performance & Compliance management, carrying a more than a decade of experience in Cognizant. Having been part of many finance transformation implementations for Fortune 100 customers, he brings experience based thought leadership in solving complex process and data challenges in the digital era. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and crafting many solutions in the digital space including Digital CFO, Enterprise Digital BI, Agile Finance Analytics and so on. Presently, he is active in building a sizeable competence on Risk and Compliance (Including IFRS), Financial Disclosure to align with global Compliance and reporting needs. He has led and grown many niche alliances/partnerships including that of Microgen Aptitude with a specific focus on IFRS for Insurance and ensured to onboard innovation and improved market share to the business unit.
Sailaja ST
Sr. Insurance Consultant at CognizantAs a Senior Insurance Consultant at Cognizant, S.T. Sailaja holds an MBA degree, specializing in Finance and is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma.
She has over 15 years of experience in consulting and transformation. She has deep industry expertise in Insurance. Her focus is consulting lead delivery and assisting insurers re-imagine and transform their Business. She has led large Finance Transformation programs in APAC and has significant experience in driving regulatory compliance across different regions. She has helped several insurance companies digitize their processes and improve operational efficiency. She also has expertise in conducting impact assessment of changes, designing the Target Operating Model and drawing up the Implementation Roadmap.
She has authored thought leadership paper on IFRS 17 and the solution offering for it.