Gajanan Gawde

Assistant Vice President (Head of IT Infrastructure)

Tata AIA Life Insurance

Head of IT & Trading Operations

KCG India Pvt. Ltd.

Primarily responsible for the IT infrastructure, data centers, networks, technology innovations and trading operations in India, also play a key role in managing a highly complex production environments in Asia. Create and manage the IT budgets for CAPEX and OPEX and ensure adherence to it, responsible for software licensing and asset management Providing operational support for the QST/HFT side of the business, dealing with highly customized/overclocked servers and bleeding edge high frequency trading technology (hardware, networking, microwave networks, firewalls, VPN’s etc.), highly optimized software and embedded software applications over a fleet of around a hundreds of servers across multiple exchanges and datacenters around the world

Vice President IT

Kotak Securities

Full strategic planning, leadership, and part of the decision-making authority for the organization's entire IT infrastructure strategic requirements Spear headed transition from prevailing technologies to highly functional, streamlined and cost-effective technologies and business solutions that have dramatically improved efficiency, decreased expenses, and optimized data security Designed and implemented company’s data centers and collocation facilities at the National Stock Exchange with a low latency network to provide algorithmic trading Member of Kotak Group’s IT Infrastructure team working on new initiatives and new technology advancements Responsible for the entire trading related infrastructure which includes maintaining server, network uptime and day-to-day operations Awards: “Appreciation Award” for Aug-2011 Key Projects & Achievements: Designed, implemented and managed company’s data centers and collocation facilities Implemented highly resilient low latency trading network for efficient trading Responsible for network and FIX connectivity with all major FIX hub’s Responsible for entire algorithmic trading related infrastructure Implemented SSL VPN based remote access solution for employees to access resources over the Internet Key member of consolidation, domain and mailing solution migration team Implemented Email Archival and Backup solution which has resulted in savings of backup time, disk usage and tape usage Automation of processes

Manager - Technology

Bharti Airtel Limited

Managed Enterprise Data Center operations with full accountability for the cost-effective, on-time management of data center functions with focus on customer delight. I am serving as primary point of contact on 24 hour, 7-days-a week basis, in charge of co-coordinating critical disaster recoveryprocedures directly impacting the stability of data center operations. Designed and implemented IT-Infrastructure projects and introduced new products to benefit the customer which have increased the sales revenue. I had been working in close conjunction with cross-functional teams of sales, pre-sales and projects, to ensure timely commissioning of projects. Provide SLA based managed support services based on email management, web server management, operating system management and infrastructure services management to customers. Developed and revised departmental procedures to assist in all aspects of data center operations. Also member of the ISO-27001 Core team; the task involved streamlining the system and adherence to information security policies. Trained, developed and lead a team of engineers to provide support on 24 hours, 7-days-a-week basis. Extensively interfaced with the help desk teams and provided immediate support on pressing technical issues

Senior Executive - System Administration

Blue Star Infotech