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SME PANEL Here are some profiles of TrainingCentral's Panel of Experts
- Ramakrishnan, Branch Banking, Bank Audit, IT Implementation
- Muthuraman, Ratings Debt Markets, Credit Risk evaluation,Financial Evaluation, Capital Structuring, Business Plan preparation
- Suvarna, Financial Accounting, IFRS, Transfer Pricing, International Taxation
- Indrani, Trade Finance, Forex
- Damodar, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Foreign Exchange, Treasury, Trade Finance
- Sabina, Insurance, Mutual Funds, Wealth Management
- Rohit Tandon, Corporate Banking, Cash Management, Bank Strategy, Forex
- Navneet, Wealth Management, Mutual Funds, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Debt Markets
- Saravanan K., Equity Markets, Commodity Markets
- Manisha, Branch Banking, Banking Products, Customer Relationship Management
- Sonal, Accounting Standards, ERP implementation
- Poorvi, Payment Systems, Cash Management
- Manoj, Payment Systems, Cash Management, Branch Banking
- Satheesh, Corporate Finance, Balance Sheet Analyis, Finance for Non-finance executives
- Sangeeta, Branch Banking, Banking Products, Customer Relationship Management, Budgeting, MIS
- Sudhir, Cash Management, Payment Systems, System Implementations
- Veena, Research Assistant
- Chanda, Retail Assets
- Aishwarya, Consumer Finance
- Jayaraman, Cash Management, Wealth Management
- Prachi, Cash Management, Payment Systems
- SME #24, Payment Systems, Cash Management
- SME #25, Business Analysis
- SME #26, Business Analysis, Testing, Lending
Ramakrishnan has over 26 years in the Banking industry. He started his career with Corporation Bank and was part of the team which (along with Citibank) introduced Cash Management to India. Since then, his career has taken him to work with Times Bank and HDFC Bank. In his various roles with banks, he has anchored Branch activities, migration from Kapiti to FINWARE, and handled audit besides branch process and Service Delivery.
After having laid a solid foundation to his banking knowledge, he moved to consulting in Banking systems implementation with Wipro, where he was a part of the data migration team between Centurion Bank and Bank of Punjab besides implementation of Risk Management systems across various banking customers.
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Muthuraman an engineer and a management graduate from IIM, Bangalore, is former Director - Ratings at CRISIL Ltd. He has handled credit rating assignments across various sectors and has been a voting member of CRISIL’s rating committee. Mr. Muthuraman was also in charge of CRISIL’s Executive Training business and was involved in CRISIL's training initiative for many years, conducting several training sessions in India and abroad. During his 12-year stint in CRISIL, he has been also deputed as Technical Consultant in establishing a start-up rating agency CariCRIS at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
With over 12 years of experience in the financial markets in India and abroad, Muthuraman has a keen insight in the financial domain. He has a deep understanding in the areas of Business plan preparation, financial forecasting, credit risk evaluation, financial valuation and capital structuring.
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Suvarna Suvarna Pathare is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of extensive experience in the areas of Management Reporting, Accounts Finalization, Costing Systems, Audits, Project Finance and Project reports, Business Projections and Valuations, System studies and ERP implementations, Industry Benchmarking, Transfer Pricing and International Taxation, Individuals and Professionals tax returns preparation.
She has a vast Industry experience in some of the topmost Indian Companies in the IT Software services sector and Manufacturing and Engineering sector, in the Corporate departments with direct reporting relationships with Top Management personnel at the level of CEO, Vice President and CFO.
She has handled diverse project experience in the areas of Accounts, Finance, Costing, Reporting, Internal Audits, Taxation and Systems implementations in different verticals such as FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Travel & Tourism, Gems & Jewels industry and Healthcare.
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Indrani has over 19 years of experience in a Public-sector bank, followed by over 4 years in an IT consulting organisations focused on the BFSI segment. She has worked with TCS as a Banking expert. As a banker, she handled various posts, including that of Head, Training department. She specialises in Trade Finance and Forex operations. During her stint at TCS, she implemented the Forex system for a major bank.
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Damodar has 17 Years in Banking Industry ( Worked with Indian Overseas Bank ) 9 Years in IT Industry (Working with RAM Informatics Ltd )
During his years in the Banking Industry, Damodar qualified as an expert in Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Foreign Exchange, Trade Finance, Merchant Banking, worked in various capacities in various places including as Faculty Member in Staff Training Center.
He has supervised web based Centralized Core Banking Product from initiation to implementation. Project tasks included implementation of stabilized client/server version of core banking solution and building value added products around core banking and TBA solutions. He has delivered life cycle projects on aggressive time frames to large banks.
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Sabina has over 11 years of experience in the Banking and Finance field. Of these almost 7 years were hands-on banking, operations, and process design with Timesbank and then later with HDFC Bank. She has been in various roles in Retail Banking - she has managed service and operations at various branches, was part of the Service Quality & Training team, headed the Netbanking Service Cell and was in the Service Delivery & Branch Processes team.
She is now an Independent Investment Consultant, assisting individuals to plan and implement their finance portfolio, keeping their financial goals in mind. She is well qualified for this - besides a B.Com and an MBA in Finance (both from the University of Bombay), her certifications include CAIIB, AMFI and IRDA. She has also recently qualified as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
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Rohit has over 18 years of multi-functional experience across multinational banks, insurance & management consulting. His expertise pans the traditional and new age offerings in the financial products and services. His significant achievements have been in successful delivery of corporate banking & consulting– high interaction with industries & including remedial account management, treasury, derivatives and transaction banking products (Cash management, trade finance), branch operations, relationship banking dealing with conglomerates, large corporates, SME, HNIs & NRIs, & MNCs.
He has consulted for various institutions in India, Middle East (UAE, Bahrain, Qatar), & Pakistan on formulating business strategy & market assessment, process re-engineering, HR structures (including senior management and Board compensation), developing the balanced scorecard, and Lending decisions. His professional background includes key roles at banks including Deutsche Bank, Hongkong Bank, ICICI Bank, ANZ Grindlays Bank and in the insurance sector in the erstwhile Australian AMP insurance JV in India (AMP Sanmar).
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Navneet Nayak has over 10 years of experience working in the area of Capital Markets, Risk Analytics, Private Banking, Asset Managemnent, Life Insurance and Energy (Power), primarily working in providing functional inputs in design of systems for these areas. He has a strong understanding of financial markets & instruments, financial processes and financial risk management. He is currently working in the areas of performance analysis and risk measurement and monitoring functions of asset management business with a leading global bank.
Navneet is a Gold Medallist Engineer from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur and has a management degree from IIM, Indore. His cerfications include Financial markets certification in Derivatives Core Module (National Stock Exchange, India), Subject Matter Practitioner certification in Investment banking and Financial Markets (by Polaris Software Lab), Level 1 FLMI certification on Fundamentals of Life and Health Insurance (Life Office Management Association LOMA, USA), Certified Software Quality Analyst certification (from Quality Assurance Institute QAI, Florida, USA).
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Mr. Saravanan K. heads research at Commodities Desk of a leading broking house in Mumbai. He is an active trader in Commodities and Equities and is a common reference expert for trends in the Equity and Commodities trading modules. He has been active in the Capital Markets since 1995 in the Financial Services industry across forex, equity, global commodity markets. By education an Engg. from Bangalore University, he also is Certified NCFM professional. His prior experience has been with Renaissance Securities, Leader Capital Services and US-based Investment Broking house M/s.Alaron capital services. He is also a guest Lecures at various seminars organised by M/s. Sadhna centre for Leadership and management, and MCX Training institute.
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Mahisha has over eighteen years of Retail Banking experience, having worked with HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank. In her long tenure with Retail Banking she has worked with equal emphasis on sales and service aspects of Branch Banking. She has also worked very closely on customer retention, balance build up and various cross sell initiatives resulting in better customer management.
With a passion and flair for training she is now an SME for product and process related programs on Banking and Financial services and the associated soft skills required for delivery of the same.
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Sonal is a CA by profession, specializing in the Real Estate industry. She has over 11 years of experience in Corporate Accounting, of which 7 years are with the Real Estate industry, having worked in various premier organisations like Bombay Real Estate Development Co., Bombay Dyeing Real Estate division.
Sonal advises TrainingCentral on Accounting Standards, Corporate Accounting practices and ERP implementation aspects
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Poorvi has over fourteen years of experience in the IT Industry, as a Business Analyst, Project Manager and Principal Consultant, with expertise in the area of banking and financial applications. She has operated in client-facing roles and understands process flows and operational aspects in Financial sector organisations from an analyst's perspective.
Poorvi has unique experience in project implementations for cash management, billing, business analytics and pricing for banks and financial institutions.
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Manoj has a rich mix of experience in Banking operations, IT and product development.
In the Finance field, he has initiated new technology projects and successfully implemented them in ICICI Bank. At TimesBank (later merged with HDFC Bank), he has worked in the Corporate Planning departments for branch expansion and as a Corporate Banker.
In his last assignment with Polaris, he was in charge of creation one of the largest projects for Man Investments, the largest global hedge fund. He was the faculty for training in Banking and Finance for lateral recruits and business analysts for over 4 years. Other organisations where he has worked in state-of-the-art technologies are Iridium, Tech Mahindra and CMC Ltd. While at CMC, he was part of the pioneering Bombay Stock Exchange computerization team.
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Satheesh is an expert at Balance Sheet Analysis and business plan preparation. He is a trainer for the course 'Finance for Non-finance Executive'
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Sangeeta has over 20 years of diversified experience in the areas of Branch Banking, Sales, Customer Relationship Management, Budgeting and MIS Development. In her last role, she worked as Regional Head - Merchant Services, North India with HDFC Bank Ltd.
She is a strategic planner with proficiency in implementing systems / procedures to achieve organizational objectives and profitability norms.
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Sudhir has over 12 Years professional work experience in Banking and Banking Solutions domain. He specialises in Cash Management products such as Payments, Collections, Receivables Management, Liquidity Management with in-depth knowledge of clearing systems in the Asian as well as Middle East Countries. He has implemented Solutions at leading banks for Cash Management such as AmBank – Malaysia, HSBC, HDFC Bank, Global Trust Bank, BNP Paribas, ABN Amro etc.
Sudhir is highly enthusiastic about his field and has written papers on trends and developments in the area of cash management and payment systems in the financial domain. He has architected solutiosn for banks.
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Veena has worked with Riskraft Consulting Ltd. (A knowledge initiative of Financial Technologies Group of Companies ) and Polaris in a capacity of a Business Analyst, spacialising in Risk Management, Cash Management and Treasury systems Business Analysis over her 2 year career. She holds an Engineering Degree from Vishweshwariah Technological University and MBA from Sadhana Centre for Management and Leadership Development (SCMLD).
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Chanda has over 7 years work experience within the financial sector, primarily in Retail assets business.
She has worked for over 3 years at HSBC ConsumerFinance division with exposure to Underwriting as well as Internal Audit for Personal Loans. In her last responsibility, she was working as an Associate VP - Training & staff development for HSBC Contactcentre. Her previous assignment was as an assistant manager with the sales and the credit team of GE Money erstwhile GE Countrywide Financial Services.
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Aishwarya has over eight years experience as a Techno-Functional professional with experience across
• Extensive experience in Consumer Finance Origination • Pre-sales support for Credit Origination • Project Management • Requirement Analysis
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Jayaraman has extensive implementation experience in the BFSI domain. He has certifications in the areas of Financial Markets, Derivatives(Dealer Module), Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange & Currency futures module(FEDAI) and Fixed Income & Money Markets Operations (FIMMDA) from NSE. As part of his organisation's internal certification, he is accrediated as "Investment Banking & Capital Markets Practitioner (Level 1)" and "Professional in Capital Markets".
He has successfully completed the CBiiPRO(Certified BASEL ii professional) certification in Risk Management & Compliance from BCPA(BASEL Certified Professional Association). This certification mainly encompasses the capital calculation for the risk weighted asset held by a bank and stresses the need for the implementation of the three pillar struction for supervision in banks as prescribed by the BASEL concert. He is a trainer in Investment Banking & Capital Markets.
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Prachi has rich IT implementation and consulting experience, having provided consulted with organisations like HBOS Edinburgh Scotland and Lloyds TSB London. As a consultant, she has provided valuable inputs in consulting for Internet Banking, Cash Management - Payments, Collection & Receivables, right from the Gap analysis stage, review between Current System functionalities and Market offerings and thereafter, the design of the roadmap for a new Integrated Internet Channel System for Payments module. Other consulting assignments include functional requirements study for Internet Chanel for Corporate banking which includes payments, trade, Transaction views , Registration etc
She has worked with leading IT service integrators and has operations experience experience, having worked with ICICI Lombard.
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SME #24 has strong experience in Business Analyst in Cash Management Projects
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SME #25 is an acknowledged authority in the area of Business Analysis
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SME #26 is an experienced business analysis in the area of Cash Management.
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