I'm an experienced techno-financial executive with a strong background in global banking, specializing in payments domain, API and Open-banking global product leadership . With a comprehensive understanding of finance and engineering I have a proven track record of successful leadership roles, and leading client satisfaction improvement through onboarding efficiencies. I'm adept at building world-class products from conception to commercialization, the agile way.
Extensive FINTECH skills
covering Technology, Operations and Product Management
of working across most financial centers- Mumbai, Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, NYC
through a cloud-first, api-first, open-source, zero-trust strategy.
IE Foundation Scholar
Course Specialization in Digital Signal Processing
Stealth mode entrepreneur of a cloud-native web-based payment solution.
Received AWS Activate Founder Startup funding for building the POC to pitch to investors.
Global CitiConnect Product Management lead responsible for pitching and securing investment, envisioning and leading the execution of the roadmap, promoting and marketing, supporting sales, developing competitive intelligence, facilitating operations and customer service of the API, file, SWIFT based customer channel for payables, receivables, working capital management in over 70 countries for Citi Treasury & Trade Solutions business.
Japan Country Product Manager for Citi Treasury & Trade Solutions CitiDirect and CitiConnect Online banking and host-to-host customer channels promoting account opening, domestic zengin and gaitame payment clearing, invoice netting, notional and physical pooling and virtual account collections products and capabilities.
Citi Global Consumer Online Banking IT Lead responsible for revamping Citibank Japan's obsolete Windows 2k- VB 6.0 platform to a stat-of-the art Java/ J2EE struts based web product.
Java/J2EE HTML/CSS/Javascript technologies software developer making online banking payment applications for retail customers across 70+ countries.
Aug 2024
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Aug 2024
"It was pleasure to work with Kaustav. Kaustav is very result oriented, very focused manager and with great eye for details. He very easy to work with and is a complete team player. It's not easy to find people like Kaustav in current market...."
Akshaya Kapoor - Citibank Japan Ltd. (2008 - 2010)
"With strong background in internet/mobile technology, software development and production problem solving, Kaustav, took responsibility of business/functional analysis, effort estimation and detailed planning, of an internet/mobile banking project directed by me at Citibank for its Japan Business. Project was a collaborative efforts of project management team at Singapore, business/user community at Japan, technology team at USA, development teams at China and India. A key member of project management team, during the lifecycle of project, Kaustav grew up as product manager, while mentoring and grooming members of development team, in business/functional analysis, prototyping, and innovative product testing. As a result of collaborative and innovative approach taken in many aspects of the project planning and execution, team delivered highest quality internet banking products on time, that Citibank ever witnessed. Kaustav's contribution had been key to the success of the entire project. It was delightful to work with him. He is a very knowledgable and resourceful person to have on any internet/mobile banking project."
Vinod Kumar - Citibank N.A., Singapore (2005 - 2008)
"I know Kaustav since he was a young engineer at i-flex/Oracle. Many years later, he is tracking true to his potential that was evident since his early days. He has always been global in outlook and has carefully calibrated his career path to match is interests and his track record demonstrates focus, diligence and a constant learning curve. He has proved himself in many different settings. Culturally suave, Intellectually sharp, Kaustav is on the right trajectory and I cant wait to hear about his next big achievement."
Sunil Robert - Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions ltd. 2002-2005)