Experience

Thirteen years across the enterprise-software value chain

Implementation, carrier-side ownership, vendor pre-sales and practice leadership in insurance and capital markets — with nine years of U.S. and U.K. work across New York, Boston, Los Angeles and London.

Current

Research and board practice

10/2025 – Present · United Kingdom

Fractional, Board Advisory & Non-Executive Director Pathway

Connectd

Completing a CPD-accredited pathway spanning fractional executive, board advisory and non-executive director practice — startup governance, board contribution models and advisory structures — with mentoring from serving board practitioners, while pursuing selective engagements with scaling technology businesses focused on enterprise go-to-market and applied AI.

2025 – Present · India

Author, The Constraint Premium

Independent research

A research programme on where enterprise-software value settles when AI agents do the work, and on instrumenting the context cost that agentic systems leave unmeasured. Manuscripts in preparation for peer-reviewed and practitioner publication.

Career record

Roles and outcomes

Client identities are anonymized. Revenue language is deliberate: at the software vendor, revenue was influenced through pre-sales; at the consultancy, it was originated through the services practice.

  1. 09/2024 – 08/2025

    Mphasis Silverline

    Salesforce consulting partner

    New York, NY

    Seat: Services partner

    Director, Financial Services — Insurance & Capital Markets

    Co-led the insurance practice and built the capital-markets practice from inception, as a player-coach carrying both pursuit and delivery accountability.

    • Co-led the Insurance pod and stood up the Capital Markets pod from inception, anchored on a marquee new logo; originated $6.3M in first-year revenue across go-to-market, co-selling, pursuit leadership, executive discovery and value engineering.
    • Carried a $3.4M first-year quota spanning consulting services and an in-house work-management product (scheduling, workforce and task management, reporting), as player-coach to five direct reports — three Solution Architects and two Business Analysts.
    • Led Agentforce and Data Cloud solutioning and go-to-market across the insurance and capital-markets portfolio, including the Data Services & MuleSoft offering; co-authored the Agentforce AI Readiness Assessment.
    • Originated and delivered, as Forward-Deployed Product Owner, an end-to-end platform for the alternative-investments arm of a U.S. life & retirement carrier — marketing, fundraising & capital formation, and execution across an international real-estate debt and equity portfolio — with zero client escalations.
    • Directed the RFP response for the clearing & custody business of a top-tier U.S. asset manager: a seven-person managed-services pod with agentic AI accelerators positioned for year-over-year efficiency gains.
    • Embedded at a U.S. life insurance and financial-services carrier as Forward-Deployed Product Owner, leading four client-side product owners on a multi-cloud core insurance programme spanning policy administration, employee benefits, institutional life, contact center and shared services.
    • Led investor-lifecycle solution strategy for a U.K. real-estate private-equity firm, shaped the CRM transformation approach for a cross-border FX and institutional brokerage group, and built the commercial-banking solution thesis for a $25B+ U.S. regional bank.
  2. 04/2021 – 09/2024

    Salesforce

    New York, NY · U.K. rotation, London (07/2022 – 03/2023)

    Seat: Vendor

    Principal Solutions Engineer — Insurance & Financial Services

    Owned the technical win on enterprise insurance and financial-services pursuits, from executive discovery through value engineering and configured proof.

    • Influenced and supported $18.7M+ in enterprise software revenue across 200+ opportunities in a representative 14-month window through executive discovery, value engineering and solution-led selling across insurance, banking and financial-services accounts — including £5.9M+ during a London/EMEA rotation leading U.K. and European transformations.
    • Led the architecture advisory on a Fortune-100 life & annuities carrier’s policy-servicing workspace; field-level profiling showed only 10 of 81 overview and 14 of 328 detail data points needed real-time retrieval, and the adopted roadmap re-architected retrieval in tiers with progressive rendering and cache warming on call arrival.
    • Solution lead on multimillion-dollar pursuits: a quote-to-bind modernization for one of the largest U.S. credit unions; a sales-and-underwriting platform for a top Canadian life insurer’s high-net-worth (Bermuda) operations; and a Bermuda-domiciled specialty insurance and reinsurance carrier.
    • Designed ACORD-aligned core insurance platform strategies across policy administration, new business & underwriting, rating & quoting, claims, group benefits and distribution; extended coverage to banks, credit unions and wealth & asset managers on client onboarding, advisor productivity and portfolio servicing.
    • Led a comparative-rating software partnership through integration and licensing to a working multi-carrier quoting prototype demonstrated across the insurance customer base; pioneered agentic AI use cases at the orchestration layer.
  3. 06/2019 – 04/2021

    New York Life Insurance Company

    New York, NY

    Seat: Buyer

    Lead Solutions Architect

    Carrier-side architecture lead for the service and agency platforms across life, annuities, retirement, long-term care and workplace group benefits.

    • Led the ground-up Service Cloud build for a 900-user service organization, with Vlocity layered on top, alongside Sales Cloud for an agency sales organization of 14,000+ daily users — extending the platform footprint into the firm’s investment-management and securities affiliates.
    • Directed the phased, line-of-business service transformation composing seven core back-end systems — including a mainframe policy administration system — into a unified policy view opened on nearly every inbound call.
    • Established and scaled an insurance industry-platform Center of Excellence; designed multi-layer data, security and compliance frameworks orchestrating real-time MuleSoft API integrations across internal and external systems.
  4. 07/2013 – 06/2019

    Deloitte Digital

    India · New York, NY from 2016

    Seat: Implementer

    Senior Consultant

    Business Technology Analyst → Consultant → Senior Consultant. Joined in India in 2013; moved to the New York practice in 2016.

    Delivered CRM and enterprise-modernization programmes in regulated industries, and built the practice’s early insurance industry-platform capability.

    • Led CRM and enterprise-modernization programmes across financial services, insurance and other regulated industries, shaping solution architectures across on-premise (Siebel) and SaaS CRM platforms with business and IT executives.
    • Built Deloitte’s early insurance industry-platform capability from the ground up — delivering early Vlocity (now Salesforce Industries) implementations and establishing developer certification and enablement paths.
    • Anchored strategic pursuits as domain and solution specialist — executive workshops, RFP responses and proof-of-concept builds with API integrations; authored modernization accelerators and a Siebel-to-Salesforce migration toolkit that shortened delivery timelines.

Credentials

Education and certification

Practitioner certifications across the industry platforms examined in the research — including the insurance core-platform track — alongside insurance-industry and board-governance study.

Education

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, India · 2013

Sales, Service & AI

  • Certified Agentforce Specialist
  • Sales Cloud Consultant
  • Service Cloud Consultant
  • OmniStudio Consultant
  • OmniStudio Developer
  • Spiff Designer L1

Platform & Security

  • Platform Developer I
  • Platform Developer II
  • Platform App Builder
  • Administrator
  • Sharing & Visibility Designer
  • Identity & Access Management Designer

Insurance Core Platform (Vlocity)

  • Insurance Quoting Developer v4.0
  • Platform Developer
  • UI/UX Designer

Insurance & Governance

  • LOMA / LIMRA — FLMI pathway (Level I in progress)
  • Connectd — CPD-accredited Fractional Executive, Board Advisory & NED Programme

Engage

Advisory, fractional and board conversations

For insurers, capital-markets firms and the enterprise software companies that sell to them — on solutions strategy, go-to-market, and governing AI inside regulated operations.