Byju has nearly two decades of combined experience in the Finance, Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain, and IT services sectors. Before his current role, he was working with Raymond Ltd, Foodland Supply Chain for McDonald and Eurest of Compass Group.

He started his career with Datamatics where he developed and managed software solutions for multinational companies

In his present role as the Chief Technology Officer of ART Housing Finance (India) Limited, Dominic is in charge of spearheading Business Technology Transformation and Digital Innovation strategy with a relentless focus on bringing future technology into the Housing Finance’s current technology stack. He is also responsible for complete IT Governance ,Cyber Security ,Compliance as per the regulatory ,Strategy & Budget Planning. He drives the complete tech platform for the AHFL where he has created digital tech platform for the affordable Housing right from Underwriting ,Customer Acquisition and collections modules. He has vison of creating Mobile lending gourmet of modules to support the business and reduce cost.

Prior to that, Dominic Vijay was associated with brands such as The Oberoi Grp, Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines, Max Ventures, Vana Retreats in leadership roles, where he was responsible for building agile, robust, scalable, and resilient technology platforms and processes, IT Infrastructure Solutions and Service.

He is a Recipient of 100 Most Innovative CIO of India’ + CIO of the Year Award+100 Most Influential Leaders of BFSI + CATALYST CIO  2022 ,Eminent CIO’s of India etc…

Nishchal  has been working closely with leading global technology vendors, service providers, investment banking firms as well as government bodies.

Nishchal has participated as a, key note speaker, moderator and panellist in at several prominent industry conferences and summits. He is quoted frequently in leading business and technology publications.

Over the two decades, Tarun has gained prolific experience by playing significant roles across sales, marketing, strategic consulting, business operations and enterprise IT functions. He has proven expertise in crafting environments that are conducive to creating business value, addressing organizational needs and augmenting growth. Over the years, Tarun has pioneered Business-IT transformations at various organizations across the financial services, media and FMCG verticals.

He is at present the Executive Vice President of IT & Head Data at Aditya Birla Capital. Earlier, he had been at business technology decision-maker positions at ING Investment Management Company, Tata AIG Insurance, Aviva Life Insurance, Hindustan Times and Coca-Cola India.

Tarun often speaks on a whole gamut of business & technology topics at various forums and conferences.

For his technology-driven achievements and contribution to business, he has been honored with a plethora of much-coveted accolades both in India and abroad, such as IDG CIO 100 (USA), IDG’s CIO100(India), IDC’s Insight ICONIC, Information Week’s Edge100, APAC CXO Forum’s Transformational CIO, Cybermedia’s Business Technology Excellence awards, and more.

Frost & Sullivan (USA) recognized Tarun’s cloud computing initiative at Aditya Birla Capital as the ‘Best-in-Class’ project in its category in the world, and honored him with the 2015 edition of CIO Impact Award.

Tarun has also been invited to join the ‘Verafirm Council for Constructive Partnership on Software’ (V-CCPS)—the world’s first expert group to foster collaboration among users, publishers, distributors, consultants, and service providers.

🔎 Data Management

✅ Mastering customer, product & financial data through MDM & CRM

✅ Use emerging technology like graph, bigdata, cloud ETL & warehouses for a natural opportunity

✅ Fix quality of critical data, with a six-sigma framework

✅ Curate metadata, ontology & taxonomies in line with global standards

✅ Manage information architecture using Togaf & Archimate standards

✅ Democratize data through a marketplace & deliver data with virtualization, ETL, streaming & CDC

🔎 Data Governance

➡️ Assess the maturity & culture of the organization, and put an operating model to monetize data

➡️ Cascade positive impact of governing data on Corporate Governance

➡️ Create an achievable & actionable Data Strategy based on org priorities

➡️ Draft data policy & institutionalize stewardship through tools like Axon, Collibra, IGC, Alation

➡️ Raise adoption of data standards through Platform & Project Governance

🔎 Business Analysis

⏩ Drive change management for customer-driven digital solutions that impact experience

⏩ Enterprise architecture using BIAN, FIBO models, TOGAF methodology with Archimate standards

⏩ Elicit, Manage & Translate requirements into solution capabilities

🔎 Data Protection, Privacy & Security

💹 Perform an organization-wide Privacy Impact assessment across business processes

💹 Set-up a privacy org structure for GDPR, CCPA, PDP with Privacy & Functional Stewards

💹 Adopting a security architecture for cloud, on-premise applications to protect data at rest/in-motion

🔎 Data Engineering

✳️ Transform COTS-based Data model to deployment with open source technology stack using Python, Spark, TensorFlow

✳️ Data Estate Modernization & Migration of ETL & Data assets to Cloud

✳️ Transform system-based data models into a Business Information Model for better discovery

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🔅 Artificial Intelligence Modeling 🔅 Managed Data Operations 🔅 Master & Reference data management 🔅 Data warehousing & business intelligence 🔅 Data quality 🔅 Metadata management

🔅 Information architecture 🔅 Data privacy & protection 🔅 Change & Program management 💼 Served on the Board for IAIDQ, IQINT, Dattamza 📚 Author of the book “Data Management and Governance Services” 📐 Authorized to perform Capability assessment by IQINT & EDM Council