Magic FinServ |Leadership Team

Executive Leadership

Acky Kamdar

CEO

Management professional with over 25 years of experience of launching and running businesses (start-ups and matured businesses) within Process Management, Technology Solutions, and Outsourcing services industries with a track record of delivering sustainable revenues and margins, creating long term shareholder value.

Participated and executed upon several major investment and capitalization decisions, mergers and acquisitions, integrations, and go-to-market strategies for creating competitive positioning within the industry

Specifically known for being able to attract, and build talented teams that have created successful leaders within the services industries globally.

Parag Samarth

Business Leadership

Parag is an accomplished Global IT Services leader with over 30 years of focused Financial Services experience, primarily in the USA. He is well known for his innovative strategic thinking and creating significant value for his customers.

As the BU Head of Magic FinServ, Parag is focused on leading a young, nimble team of New Technology Engineers and Capital Markets SMEs to create a strategic innovation partner for the Capital Markets Industry, solving its traditional operational challenges.

Parag is an undergrad in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from leading Universities in India.

Anuraj Soni

Delivery & Technology

With over 24 years of experience working in the Capital Markets & Education industry. Anuraj has successfully built businesses from grounds-up, setting up multi-cultural global organizations in India, Philippines, Austria, UK & the United States.

As the President of MagicFinServ & MagicBlockchainQA, Anuraj is building Financial Services business grounds-up based on new-age technologies like AI & Blockchain.

Anuraj is a B.Tech in Computer Science from NIT Kurukshetra, a Masters in Distributed Computing from New York University, and a Master’s in psychology from Madras University.

Leadership

Piyush Gupta

Platforms & Technology

Piyush is a technology leader with expertise in Artificial Intelligence. He is driving digital transformation in capital markets space using NLP, Machine Learning, and RPA. He is an experienced, dynamic, performance-driven, and insightful architect with a broad range of skills. He has more than 18 years of experience in designing and delivering large scale solutions across multiple global organizations.

Amol Mathur

Delivery & Client Management

Amol has 13 years of experience in business analysis and techno-functional consulting. He is a seasoned professional with most of his experience in product development, professional services, and bespoke solutions delivery for capital market clients. He has been exceptional in building and leading teams with a high degree of customer satisfaction.

Omprakash Kesari

Delivery and Client Management

Om has 20+ years of experience in the IT and financial services domain focussed on security & pricing, reference data, and trading platforms in various asset classes. He has extensive experience in product solution designing and implementation

He is an engineering graduate from IIT Varanasi and Certified Business Analysis Professional TM (CBAP®) from IIBA. He specializes in Business Analysis & Consulting, Reference Data & Pricing in financial services.

Vinay Sharma

Practice Head-QA

Vinay is a Practice head of QA with expertise in Investment banking. He has 17+ years of experience in leading, directing & heading Quality Assurance within the financial services sector (Capital Market) and engaging with CxO level stakeholders across IT & business

He is a strong believer in emerging technologies like RPA, ML & AI and our focused-on workforce up-skilling to implement these technologies to serve business more effectively. He is part of the Magic FinServ senior leadership team responsible for driving strategies across the globe.

Sarbani Maiti

AVP-Cloud Services

Sarbani is a Leader of Digital transformation with 20 years of experience in investment banking domain.

production-ready solutions. Sarbani is BTech in Electronics & Telecommunication from Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Kolkata and has a post-graduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from IIT Bangalore.

Sales and Marketing

Naina Sethi

Business Development Manager

Naina joined us after spending 5 years across Citigroup's Global Transaction Banking group covering liquidity and investments, business transformation, and commercial cards. Most recently, she led the end to end execution of Citi corporate commercial cards programs (pricing, contractual negotiations, and P&L management) for institutional clients across Technology-Media-Telecom and Energy-Power-Chemical verticals in North America; the most profitable segment of a 700MM+ global business spanning 5 regions.

Malika Dwarka

Business Development Manager

Malika graduated from the NYU Stern Business School with a B.Sc in Business and Political Economy and a minor in Social Entrepreneurship and Management. She spent 4 years in New York, London, Shanghai, and Melbourne learning about the capital markets and their impact on global trade. Her prior work has focused on management consulting for firms in the offshore industry in Mauritius and in the energy industry in Kenya.

Ishita Sharma

Marketing Manager

Ishita is a proven B2B marketer who thrives in entrepreneurial roles at high growth companies. She has an analytical mindset coupled with creativity, constantly striving to be the customer’s advocate. Ishita joined us after working across various successful software startups of India, the US, and Singapore. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Symbiosis University and a Master’s degree from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. She is passionately curious, an avid traveler, and a voracious reader.

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