Driving Sustainable Ecosystems with Banking-as-a-Service

Likhit Wagle has led and advised Banking and Insurance clients around the world on business transformation programs that have realized major improvements in the clients’ net promoter scores, revenue growth and profitability. Likhit is responsible for IBM’s world-wide banking business – IBM’s largest sector by revenue and profits. Likhit’s mission is to grow the industry on a consistent, sustainable and profitable basis by making IBM the partner of choice for Digital Re-invention. Likhit is responsible for developing and executing IBM’s strategy, including the enhancement of external eminence, selection and development of IBM’s client portfolio in the sector and the deployment of industry specific solutions including a rapidly growing ecosystem of partners. Nurturing, managing and developing industry talent and expertise which underpins IBM’s strategic differentiation is a key part of his responsibilities. Likhit is a member of IBM’s Management Board for the Industry and also a member of the Acceleration Team which consists of the top 300 executives in the Corporation that has been hand-picked by the Chairman of IBM. He is also a founder member of the Industry Academy – a community of the foremost industry experts in IBM.

Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Liquidity Management, Citizens Commercial Banking

Steven Reiter is the Lead – Business Consulting Practice for Financial Services at EY. He advises banking clients on retail, commercial and payments operating models, core technologies, application architectures, integration architectures and large-scale program execution. His domain expertise includes core banking solution evaluation, transformation and replacement, mortgage loan origination and securitization, commercial banking, treasury management and payments. With more than 40 years of experience, Steven has spent the last 20+ years assisting clients with aligning technology transformation with business initiatives.

Amit Dua is President, SunTec Business Solutions. Based in London, he leads Sales, Business Development, Client Engagement, Alliances, and Industry Solutions functions for SunTec globally. Prior to joining SunTec, he served as Vice President & Regional Head for Europe, Americas and Australia, New Zealand as well as Head of Global Alliances for the banking product business of Infosys Limited, a $12 BN global firm. Over the last 26+ years, Amit has handled all the markets in advanced and emerging economies – Europe, Americas including LATAM, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa interacting with global and local banks alike. He is a keen business strategist and regularly comments on a range of banking and technology related issues. He has authored several articles and speaks regularly on contemporary topics like trends in banking technology, customer experience management, digital banking, channels, and core banking transformations, to name a few. Amit has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA in Marketing. With his avid interest in customer engagement, Amit can also get extremely competitive on the court as he enjoys playing racket and ball sports including squash, tennis, badminton, cricket, and table tennis. He also finds cooking very therapeutic and spends his Saturday and Sunday evenings cooking a meal for the family. In his free time, Amit enjoys reading non-fiction books, especially corporate histories, and autobiographies. Amit is married with a son and draws strength from his super supportive wife, who infuses energy and positivity into his life.