Fintech leaders in Singapore spent a century at Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered’s digibank venture in Singapore, Trust Bank, has grown at a significant pace. Fintech has over 500,000 customers in just seven months.
It probably helps that the bank is built on a foundation of employees taken from Standard Chartered itself. Together, they have over a hundred years of experience in both traditional finance and technology.
These are some of the best Standard Chartered alumni working in Trust Bank Singapore today.
Vishnu Thilak – Head of Product Management
Previous role: System manager for credit decisions at Standard Chartered
One of the more recent senior appointments, Vishnu Thilak was named head of product management at Trust Bank this month.
Prior to this, Thilak spent over 13 years with Standard Chartered.
Dwaipayan Sadhu – Managing Director
Previous role: CEO: Head of Consumer Private and Business banking at Standard Chartered
Trust Bank’s CEO has spent over two decades in banking, starting with Standard Chartered in India before leaving for a brief nine-month stint at Citi.
On his return to Standard Chartered, Sadhu headed various divisions for the bank in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Bhavik Savla – Head of FP&A
Previous role: Interim CFO, Digital Venture of Standard Chartered Bank
Trust Bank’s head of financial planning and analysis, Bhavik Savla, was at Standard Chartered for less than six years and previously worked at both Deutsche Bank and Citi.
During those six years, however, he held a number of notable positions, including CFO of the virtual bank in Hong Kong and director of growth strategy for the retail banking division.
Ramesh Dharma – Interim Head of Technology Risk
Previous role: Executive Director – Head Information Security Risk Officer ASEAN and South Asia
One of Trust Bank’s top technologists, he previously spent five years with Visa, where he was the Global Information Security Lead for the AP CEMEA region.
Lalit Lohia – Chief Risk Officer
Previous role: Managing Director – Chief Credit Officer ASEAN at Standard Chartered
One of the many high-ranking Trust Bank members to have started in India, Lalit Lohia spent 13 years at Citi and six at Barclays before spending eight years at Standard Chartered.
His three decades of banking experience make him perhaps the most experienced financial expert in the company.
Fredy Aga – CFO
Previous role: Global Head of Finance – Technology and Innovation at Standard Chartered
Since moving to Standard Chartered in 1999, Fredy Aga has been Global Head of Finance for various divisions in Singapore.
In addition to technology and innovation, he was finance manager for consumer banking for over a year, and finance manager for risk and compliance for over five years.
Natalia Goh – Chief Operating Officer
Previous role: Managing Director, Head of Credit Cards and Unsecured Lending, Singapore
Harvard graduate Natalia Goh has spent the last 14 years working for Standard Chartered.
Her area of specialty appears to be credit cards, having been managing director and product manager of credit cards before joining as CEO.
Kartikay Doval – head of project management
Previouss Role: Director, Digital Payments & MultiCurrency Solutions at Standard Chartered
Another senior member with a lot of experience outside Standard Chartered, Kartikay Doval began his career at Citi for 6 years before jumping around banks including Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, Citi again and Standard Chartered once more.
Doval spent almost six years at Standard Chartered in his second term, but perhaps a more impressive role was his previous one: head of delivery and distribution for Citibank Online in Asia and Australia.
Sandesh Hegde – Head of risk and core business
Previous role: Regional manager – ASA Risk Operation and leads process controls and systems at Standard Chartered
Sandesh Hegde spent more time in one company than anyone else in Trust Bank. He spent over 25 years at Standard Chartered before taking up the role there.
The position he spent the most time on was head of process controls and systems – risk operations. He spent five years in the role after moving from Botswana to Singapore.
Nick Woodruff – Chief of Staff
Previous role: Global chief of staff – treasury at Standard Chartered
Originally based in London, Nick Woodruff spent six years at Barclays before moving to PR firm FGS Global.
Woodruff then moved to Singapore and joined Standard Chartered in 2010 and worked there for over a decade. In addition to the chief of staff role, he also spent three months at the same time as product manager.
Rajit Maiti – head of operational and fraud risk
Previous role: Executive director and head of operational risk – Consumer, Private and Business Banking
A risk specialist, Rajit Maiti has spent over 18 years at Standard Chartered serving as Head of Risk for a number of departments.
Among these are retail banking, retail distribution and branding and marketing teams in Singapore.
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