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Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Delta Air Lines is a domestic and international travel provider which offers airline tickets & flights and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Extensive global experience through managing global teams and working overseas for 5 yearsSenior General Manager - have built and run a greenfield start up for Bank of America in India. This involved all aspects of the transaction including setting up the legal entity, capital structure, city and site selection, facility buildout, hiring the CEO and his senior leadership team, marketing the services internally, and overseeing Operations, Finance, Six Sigma, HR, IT etc. to make it a superb working entity. Six Sigma Green belt certifiedLed large teams of both Technology and Back office operations in the wealth management sector - I lead a division of over 2000 which delivers all technology and operations for Bank of America's Private Bank (US Trust), Alternative Investments group, retail Broker (BAI Securities), asset manager (Columbia Management) and Retirement Services.Flawless execution of large, complex and matrixed change programs within the financial services industry including several mergers and acquisitionsStrong domain expertise of global and capital markets across Foreign exchange, Money Market, Fixed Income etc.; Payments, commercial loans, private banking, brokerage, asset management etc.Specialties: Complete vendor management life cycle from procurement to ongoing managementComplete technology life cycle - concept to maintenanceOperational excellence using six sigma in both Tech and Ops shopsStart up experience overseasTurn around experience in taking teams that were 'broken' and rebuilding them to deliver high quality service to the clients.Expert at all aspects of operational risk management and creating a highly embedded culture of risk reward management