Rukesh Patel

[ CIO/CTO, Edelweiss Financial Services]

Rukesh is a transformation leader with global experience in managing complex and mission critical platforms in Fintech, Payments, Lending, Travel and FMCG. He has been a part of a technology team at American Express, Westpac Bank, Lloyds Banking group, PriceWaterHouse and Woolworths. In 2015, He moved to Mumbai and worked as CTO at JioMoney and Jio payments bank. He is currently leading the technology transformation for lending at Edelweiss Financial Services. In the late 90s was hard core geek, writing multi-threaded algos for digital signal processing for images and speech. He strongly believes technology should be beautiful and non invasive - simple and easy to use, the users should be able to get in and out to get things done fast. A self transforming thinker who believes there is no bar to achieving anything in life.