Ram Puppala

Board Member @ Vaiu Global

About

Seasoned Senior Executive with track record of driving visionary technology solutions for start-up, high-growth and fortune five hundred organizations. Deliver focused, proactive and committed leadership in development of high-performance teams to support both business and information-technology initiatives. Extensive background in software development and infrastructure management for financial services and banking industry. Specialties: Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management and Development, Offshore Strategy, Online Trading System, Wealth Management, Payment Processing.

Country

United States

City

Basking Ridge

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Executive Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Application Programming, Functional Leadership, General Management, Marketing, Executive Visibility, Communication, Strategy, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Start-ups, Business Development, Operations Management, Vendor Management, Agile Methodologies, Program Management, Software Development, SDLC, Business Analysis

Experience

Board Member

Vaiu Global

2023-7 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

New York City Metropolitan Area

Chief Technology and Operations Officer

ACI Worldwide

2021-7 - 2023-6 · 2 yrs

Miami, Florida, United States

I lead ACI's Technology & Operations organization, which is focused on developing and running world-class payments software products.

Chief Digital Officer

Metropolitan Commercial Bank

2020-4 - 2021-6 · 1 yr 3 mos

New York, United States

SVP/CTO State Street Global Exchange

State Street

2016-1 - 2020-3 · 4 yrs 3 mos

SVP/CTO, SSGX Software Solutions / Information Solutions

State Street

2014-3 - 2016-1 · 1 yr 11 mos

New Jersey

SVP & Chief Information Officer, Wealth Management Technology and Customer Operations

Fiserv

2011-8 - 2014-1 · 2 yrs 6 mos

New Jersey

Responsible for the technology strategy, execution and delivery of Hosted system software focused on Financial Services Trading solutions specifically in the area of Managed Accounts.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Fiserv

2003-3 - 2011-7 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Quality Assurance & Improvment and New Product development.

CO-Founder and CEO India Operations

FNSTAR Inc

2000-7 - 2003-2 · 2 yrs 8 mos

I co-founded the company and led the company from the incubation stage to fundraising to product launch to scaling out the operations to support sales and client service.