Vikram Samant

22+ years of combined technology delivery experience in Credit card issuing, Acquiring, Data Migration, Scheme Compliance, Platform Upgrades, Product implementations, Cards Issuing SME, Digital Solutions & Transformation.International technology management experience across Asia Pacific, European markets, CXO advisory and IT leadership across payments business domains. Have extensive experience on demand Management, vendor Management , contract Management, Includes Pre-Sales, Strategy, Bid Management, contract Management, Pricing & ROI.Currently responsible for building next gen development center for Citi Asia Cards technology in Pune Key Achievements • Building Digital products like Universal bill payments, Agency Banking, Remote Account On boarding on iPad, product to support local tax payments digitally etc. • 12 months fast track digital transformation initiative to upgrade Cards core and Digital channel implementation for 6 business units across Barclays Bank Africa. Helping Banks for Digital payments and Installment loans on cards.• Set up Architecture functions in offshore center for Barclays bank Africa and contributed Enterprise Design Authority for Enterprise governance.• Set up Payment practice and capability building for LTI to accelerate the business growth in Payments Industry.• Transformation of Nordics payment processor in 6-8 months with no disruption to business. The transformation includes technology Delivery, Ways of working, cost optimization, Data transformation.