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Vinay Kumar

Setting up Prudential Health India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India·Prudential plc
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About

An accomplished leader focused on delivering business value through innovation and technology. 17+ years of senior executive experience in delivering numerous best in class digital systems for Fortune 50 telecom companies, scaling a startup, and CXO consulting. Manages large scale global organizations of 1000+ staff with budgets exceeding $40M. My career objective: Whatever the industry, differentiation (USP) among competitors going forward, will be based on customer service. And more and more, technology will be the preferred media to provide an excellent delivery of this service. I want to gain opportunities to leverage my technology expertise and innovativeness, to establish myself as a thought-leader in delivering superior customer service using best-in-class technology.

Experience

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Chief Technology and Information Officer

Prudential plc · Full-time

Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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CTIO

Prudential Health India · Full-time

Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos·Singapore/Bangalore

Make Indians healthier through a combination of prevent, postpone and protect solutions. Deliver these solutions through digital-led channels, on an open and secure platform, leveraging data and AI/ML driven bionic ops.

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Program Director

Prudential · Full-time

Jun 2018 - Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos·Singapore

Responsible for building partnerships ecosystem

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Director Software Engineering, Integration Infrastructure

BT

Aug 2011 - Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 11 mos·Bengaluru Area, India

Accountable for end-to-end delivery of digital solutions, supporting $30M+ revenues across six LoBs, and a 25M+ customer base spread across 30+ countries. Responsible for managing strategic investments of $24M+ in digital IT platforms using a global workforce of 400+ software engineers to architect, design, build and run enterprise gateways, integration middleware systems, IOT information exchange and MBaaS platform (Mobile Backend as a Service). Highlights: 1. The B2B gateways support trading with over 550 communication providers. 2. Over 45M+ transactions are successfully carried out over the gateway and middleware platform per day. 3. The IOT Information Exchange platform has been developed over the last 8 months using opensource technologies which enable smart cities implementation in UK. 4. MBaaS platform (Mobile Backend as a Service) has created a software self-service ecosystem for both customers and internal stakeholders, to exploit data and functionalities locked in legacy and archaic mainframes. Previously at BT, have led teams who build and run revenue assurance, billing, payments and CRM systems.

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Director - IoT

BT

Aug 2011 - Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 11 mos·Bengaluru Area, India
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Senior Vice President Operations

Ocimum

Feb 2008 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos·Hyderabad Area, India

Reporting into the CEO, accountable for scaling of the startup via organic growth, and inorganic acquisitions globally. Highlights: 1. Acquired and integrated two companies, one in Netherlands and one in the US. 2. Scaled Hyderabad operations from 80 to 210+ over 2 years. 3. Involved in due-diligence exercises, for acquisitions, and funding. 4. Established policies, processes and controls to help the company scale from $1M to $5M revenues over 3 years.

Education

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Indian School of Business

MBA, Business Management with major in Finance and Marketing, Business Management with major in Finance and Marketing

2003 - 2004

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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology

1994 - 1998