Arif Ismail Syed

• Currently working as a Chief Technology Officer with Fairfax Asia, responsible for IT and Insurance Operations across APAC (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Thailand) region.
• Involved in M&A activities of Fairfax Asia across the APAC region. Part of C level team that completed 4 acquisitions and 3 mergers in the region
• Leading multi-million dollar digital transformation program for Fairfax Asia
• Managed IT systems for India’s largest Private General Insurer with a business of more than 1.2Billion USD issuing 20Million policies and settling 6million+ claims annually.
• Lead biggest Data warehouse development for the largest Private General Insurer of India with real time analytics for business triggers
• Experience in managing entire Information Technology functions including Business Applications, Enterprise Architecture, Application Security and infrastructure
• Dept in formulating IT Strategies and operational plans to align with business requirements and help business achieve competitive advantage by leveraging on IT capabilities

• PMP Certified IT professional with over 16+ years of experience in managing entire Information Technology functions including Business Applications, Enterprise Architecture & Application Security
• Currently working as Vice President - Technology at ICICI LOMBARD GIC LTD
• Dept in formulating IT Strategies and operational plans to align with business requirements and help business achieve competitive advantage by leveraging on IT capabilities
• Possess a demonstrated record of success to increase efficiency, enhance shared use of information, and establish technological infrastructure to facilitate rapid project growth
• Meticulous professional with outstanding success record in execution of huge, complex IT projects involving demanding contributions
• Highly adept at multi-tasking on several projects, resolving conflicts, mentoring team members and possess excellent decision making ability
• An all rounder intellect blending leadership skills with sound business practices to achieve turn around growth and position organization for long-term profitability
• Proven record of accomplishment in team management to consistently raise efficiency levels; a strong team leader capable of fostering an atmosphere that encourages highly talented professionals to balance high-level skill with maximum productivity
• An articulate communicator with proven interpersonal and negotiation skills, honed with excellence and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and sensitive environment

• is the core banking solution developed by Australian base company FNS, which was later bought by TCS. State Bank of India (SBI) uses this software for their core banking solution
• This product support 82 million customer and 10, 000 branches across India, with 600 Transaction taking place per second (Approx 12million Transaction per day) and database size of approx. 4TB

• Lead & manage Production Support, negotiate & manage migration of branches to the core and cutover / rollout new branches
• Manage a team size of more than 60 Software Professional, plan & managed DR Drills & DR sites
• Respond to and manage all high severity production issues from root cause identification through to resolution
• Act as the custodian for the production environment within the team by assessing the risk and operational readiness of change into production
• Partner with the Best Practices team to create processes, communications and training materials for system and process changes
• Maintain strong partnerships with Enterprise Services (IT) and other areas to provide a consistent, supportive, stable technical environment to the team

Manage Airline Revene Accounting software development.

Was part of Airline Revenue accounting software development team.

Leading Software Development