India

Associate Director & Head – India

Siddharth Karmarkar (Sid) is a qualified chartered accountant with over 17+ years of experience. Having worked across the globe, he draws a repute of being extremely performance-driven and delivering innovative business solutions for numerous organizations, including world-leading banking and financial services companies such as American Express, Société Générale, HSBC & JPMorgan. Further deepening general management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he has gained expertise in analyzing and implementing strategies and business practices to improve overall efficiency, drive business growth and improve financial performance.

Sid has been instrumental in leading senior management through periods of rapid growth and business transformation to deliver the best results be it scale-up of market share, expand geographies and/or product marketing capabilities.

Sid has won several awards and accolades and skilled in leading multiple complex projects from concept to completion – including but not restricted to trading algorithms, NLP, Web-crawling technology, CRM, LEAN, etc in Capital Markets, Asset Management & Securities businesses.

Associate Director

Lilly is a performance driven Senior Finance Professional, has over 30 years’ multi-dimensional experience across financial and knowledge outsourcing segments in the Capital Markets domain. With her strong domain knowledge of Asset Management Services and established track record of leadership in overseeing large and diverse operations across domestic -UTI AMC, as well as international banks like State Street, JP Morgan, BNY Mellon and leading Capability Centers like Syntel and WNS Global.

Lilly has credible exposure in setting up and growing shared service centres, managing large and multi-locational teams and with excellent client interfacing capabilities has led transformation of work across geographies to the shared service hubs. She is a proactive change agent, instrumental in conceptualizing and implementing Centers of Excellence and driving continuous process improvements through Six Sigma and Lean initiatives in the institutions she has worked. Lilly’s most recent association was as Director Operations at BNY Mellon where she managed multi functions in the Fund Services and Asset Management space pan India. She was also the site head for BNY Mellon at Chennai where she had administrative oversight of all Business Partner functions in Chennai.

As a senior woman leader, she has been a part of the D&I National council of NASSCOM apart from being an active member of the GCC conclave, Chennai and representing her organisation in various industry forums. With a passion for teaching, she also delivers guest lectures at reputed educational institutions.

Associate Director

Pavan is an enterprising leader, chartered accountant and an executive coach with over 25 years of experience with leading MNCs such as GE, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas and is known for building teams across global service organizations and bringing transformational change. From set-up to scale-up of shared service organizations including new operations and CoEs, he has an expertise to create structures for transition, and transformation of processes, defining target operating models, controls, risk mitigation and governance frameworks.

Pavan is also certified in Six Sigma, Project management and Yogic concepts/training and is also an Erickson Certified Coach. He is passionate about CSR and has been working with NGOs in the areas of Education and Ecology.

Senior Consultant

Shoaib has over three decades of work experience; during this period he has worked for start-ups as well as large billion dollar firms with global presence. The last fifteen plus years has been at senior management levels including CXO, and Director R&D. This experience is spread across niche organizations like Saba Inc., Tata, Unisys, DSL (Deutsche Software – part of Deutsche Bank), Banque Indosuez, Société Générale, Aditya Birla Minacs (part of 40 billion USD Aditya Birla Group) and most recently Syntel Inc.

His key responsibilities have been product strategy, development and go to market strategy, management activities of multinational
company’s Indian operations; streamline operations and turnaround of an ailing IT division of BPO/IT company; CIO and Operational Risk head for IT & BPO at a leading global bank; vendor management,
innovation and high-performance team building etc.

In the earlier part of his career, he had hands-on exposure to account /project management; requirement studies; system design & architecture; optimization and implementation of application systems for international banks, financial institutes and leading
technology/manufacturing organizations including software products companies.

As a senior consultant to CommSol, Shoaib supports our global CXOs in strategy, implementation and execution