Arka is a banking professional with a wide range of experience having worked for or served 20+ banks across United Kingdom, India and SE Asia. His North Star is finding opportunities to have impact by improving customers’ financial lives. He is passionate about all facets of mass scale banking: Retail, SME, payments. Arka believes that universal access to Banking is core to changing the world – think direct transfer of benefits, credit for those in the informal sector, etc.
Arka currently is the Head of Strategy for TSB Bank. Prior roles included being a Strategy & Innovation Principal at NatWest Personal Bank, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, serving mid-size Indian companies as a Commercial Banking Relationship Manager and being a Personal Banker at a branch.
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Sebastian has extensive experience serving leading mobility, industrial, and private equity clients. With a passion for creating new business models and growth opportunities, Sebastian leads our lifecycle products and services work for advanced industries in Europe, including digital services, aftersales, and auto financing or leasing. In addition, he coleads the advanced industries sales and marketing activities.
Examples of Sebastian’s recent client work include the following:
- developing new digital business models—such as e-commerce and digital sales—for mobility clients
- building a greenfield leasing attacker for a leading captive company
- supporting multiple strategic projects for leading automotive OEMs, such as lifecycle management, car data monetization, and direct-to-consumer business
- developing a growth strategy and aftersales-as-a-service offering for a private equity portfolio company
- enabling big data and advanced-analytics strategies for automotive companies
- leading an agility and leadership transformation for a global premium automotive OEM
- launching a holistic commercial-excellence program at a leading automotive supplier
- developing a global strategy for the aftersales division of an automotive OEM
- leading growth projects and digital platform building for aftermarket distributors
Sebastian is managing partner of our Düsseldorf office. He has launched our regional startup initiative and engages in transatlantic relationships—being a Young Leader of Atlantik-Brücke e.V—as well as various social initiatives.
Martin is the Global Head of Digital Product for Custody and Fund Services, which sits within the Prime, Futures and Securities Services business at Citi.
Martin has over 20 years of industry experience gained across Custody and Fund Services within Product, Technology and Operations. Globally focused on Data Strategy solutions, Artificial Intelligence (ML, NLP, Vision, and Speech) and Emerging Technologies. Providing external and internal CFS clients with an exceptional user experience across a vast range of online applications.
Before joining Citi in 2017, Martin spent 10 years at State Street leading their EMEA digitisation strategy for client engagement and was the EMEA product owner for client facing applications across Global Services.
Prior to State Street, Martin held roles at J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust and BNY Mellon.
Multi-faceted 20+ years experienced engineering leader, well versed in all aspects of personnel, project and software management. Result-driven, high-energy professional with a talent for leading by example and inspiring optimal performance from team members. Innovative and strategic in building teams focused on completing projects. Building, nurturing, and retaining performant staff and creating a positive work environment and growth mindset. Possesses a proven track record of successfully uniting people with various backgrounds and objectives to achieve common goals maintaining “Diversity Equity and Inclusion”
Nils creates data-driven, user-centric product strategies to help design teams build innovative AI products and experiences, using technology and design thinking to make people’s lives less frustrating while ensuring business value is delivered.
He has worked agency-side with clients such as Google, Facebook/Instagram, Virgin, UBS, and Sainsbury’s. Now as client-side leading strategy for AIG’s AI products team, Nils is dedicated to transforming the financial services industry by using artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing to create new products.
Mukund is the Head of RegTech Partnerships within ING. Mukund enables ING to partner with the innovative start-ups and scale-ups to solve most complex challenges for risk, compliance, operations and technology teams. Mukund is passionate about creating value through partnerships – including in areas such as regulatory change management, know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) processes. Prior to joining ING, Mukund was the Director of Innovation at Commonwealth Bank of Australia where he setup and led the bank’s London Innovation Lab. In this role, Mukund created multiple industry partnerships to jointly test innovative technology solutions in the market, while sharing skills, resources, costs and learning. Mukund has over 15 years of experience in leading technology strategy and digital transformation initiatives for global organisations.
Mukund has an undergrad in Computer Science and received an MBA from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
Vincenzo is passionate, energetic and pragmatic (in that order!), always keen to learn, engage with people, and tackle new challenges. Having started his career as a software engineer, in his recent roles Vincenzo has been accountable for professionalising and measurably improving the value delivered by the architecture practice of large global organisations.
Throughout his career Vincenzo has built a strong professional network, and is always highly regarded by those he worked with. He has strong interpersonal and communication skills and has spoken at a number of international conferences.
Vincenzo was born in Sicily, and studied Computer Science at the University of Pisa. He moved to London in 1995, and where now lives with Miranda and their two children. He is also a keen volunteer in his local community.
Nouamane is an experienced Chief Information, Transformation & Data Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the international financial services industry (Venture Capital, Global Banks -Retail, Insurance & Asset Management).
Hi is skilled in IT Digital Strategy, Architecture, Open Banking & Insurance, Data Management, API, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Big Data & IA (RPA & ML).
