EP 202 – Arvind Swami – Director at Red Hat – From Siloed Data to Hyper-Personalization

Michael Waitze worked in Global Finance for more than 20 years, employed by firms like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, primarily in Tokyo.  Michael lived and worked in Tokyo from February 1990 until December 2011.  Michael always maintained a particular focus on how technology could be used to make businesses more efficient and to drive P/L growth. Michael is a leader in the digital media space, building one of the biggest and fastest-growing podcast listener bases in the region.  His AsiaTechPodcast.com show has listeners in more than 170 countries and his company, Michael Waitze Media produces some of Asia’s most popular podcasts.

Arvind Swami has been part of the FSI community, in various regional and global roles, for the past 22 years. He has worked for strategic platform vendors like Temenos, Oracle Financial Services and SAP, where he was involved in large transformational programs globally. Through multiple customer engagements, Arvind has seen that the financial institutions who have embraced Open Architecture and driven innovation through Open Source have been able to offer a better customer engagement and experience. In his current role Arvind leads the FSI vertical for Red Hat in APAC region, working with Financial Institutions, on helping them become more agile and respond to dynamic business needs, leveraging open source technologies.