Gippu Sam

VP - Digital Applications @ Reliance Nippon Life Insurance

About

Digital leader with over 14 years of experience building intuitive enterprise and consumer facing applications. Heading digital application teams across web and mobile application to solve user problems with technology and design across sectors including Banking, Insurance, Telecom and Financial services. Specialities Product management, Solution design, Fintech, Mobile applications, Product roadmap, User engagement, Vendor management, Financial services,Technology consulting.

Country

India

City

Mumbai

Industry

Insurance

Skill

Digital Strategy, Program Management, Project Management, Product Management, Product Development, Mobile Applications, Project Delivery, Financial Technology, Mobile Payments, Vendor Management, Technology Consulting, Java, C, Objective-C, Android, C++, iOS development, Team Management, Android Development, Embedded C

Experience

VP - Digital Applications

IndusInd Nippon Life Insurance Company Limited

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Mumbai

Assistant Vice President

Tata AIA Life Insurance

2023-5 - 2026-2 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Leading digital transformation in operations and UW.

Associate Vice President - Mobile Banking

Kotak Mahindra Bank

2021-11 - 2023-5 · 1 yr 7 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Leading the platform product team for the kotak mobile banking app.

Senior Chief Manager | Platform Lead

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance

2018-12 - 2021-11 · 3 yrs

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Platform lead for the entire digital onboarding tech stack across backend, web and mobility systems leading a 30 member team across internal and vendor partners. - Designed and setup a cloud native Omni channel customer onboarding and underwriting platform. Platform enabled a modular, scalable and reusable structure to address complex, dynamic changing business needs, and multiple workflows for each channel.

Technical Manager | Digital Solutions

Edelweiss Financial Services Limited

2016-8 - 2018-12 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Mumbai Area, India

-Setup the Mobile solutions team from its nascent stage to scale managing 12 applications across the org - Driving digital strategy and innovation in mobile and emerging technologies IOT, Facial recognition, Machine learning, Voice and chat bots.

IT Analyst | Mobile Wallets Lead

Tata Consultancy Services

2011-12 - 2016-8 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Mumbai Area, India

- Heading a 30 member multilocation team across development, testing and UI design to manage end to end delivery of mobile applications -Setup Vodafone Mpesa mobile Wallet app from scratch, managing product design, solution architecture and delivery - Led the consulting and development efforts for mobile wallets across clients.