OUR PEOPLE

-Advisor to 50+ CROs and CCOs in tier-1 banks, insurance, investment management firms  including life, equity and annuity investment firms

-Regulatory Compliance and Certification Regimes – Banking and Financial Services,  including tier-1 Market Infrastructure, ex-CCO of a G-SIFI

-Regulatory Affairs and Compliance for CEOs and COOs

-Digital Transformation of Risk and Compliance

-Data Privacy, Records Keeping and Cybersecurity

-Operational Risk and Non-Financial Risk

Academic Experience: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. MIT.

     (iv) Reg Reporting products due diligence

Ish Joshi

Associate Partner and Head of Strategic Development

Ish has extensive global, cross industry consulting experience the UK, Europe and US. He is a Senior Manager at ICAG Partners focusing on Technology and digital transformation services. Ish’s clients over the years have been across multiple industries, with engagements spanning the Finance-Technology continuum.

Some of his previous roles were:

•Solution & Delivery Lead focusing on Strategic M&A and Financial Advisory.

•Establishing and leading the Finance and Digital transformation programmes

•Start Up & Growth Advisory

•Commercial Due Diligence

•Finance Function Transformation

•Global Business Services (GBS), Shared Services,

•Location Strategy

•Project, Change management

Academic Experience:

•MBA (Strategy, Finance, Marketing) Cranfield University, UK

•BSc., St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, India

Gopal Kuchibhotla, Partner and Head of Risk

Professional Expertise:

–Designed and delivered a fraud risk management program at a peer organization in the last two years, covering policies, procedures, training and communications end to end

–Fraud management solution development and delivery, from requirements through to production

–GRC across AML and KYC, controls management and trade surveillance, and the enterprise systems and data beneath them

–Engagement lead for a UK GRC business focused on fraud prevention, on solution review and market assessment

–Solution delivery lead for a UK trade surveillance FinTech on functionality review and enhancement

–Strategic adviser to a FinTech risk and compliance platform on product-market fit and stakeholder value delivery

–Solution and delivery lead for finance and risk transformation at a tier-1 financial institution

–Established and led the Finance 4.0 and CFO advisory practice at EY in India and MENA with full P&L accountability; enterprise solutions advisor to Deloitte India; 15 years leading finance and technology teams at PwC in India, the UK and the US

–M&A advisory: due diligence, post-merger integration and target operating model design.

Sridhar Somadundar, Managing Director

Professional Expertise:

–Operationalized financial crime Big Data globally at HSBC, and led closure of a CFTC Deferred Prosecution Agreement across a ~$60M per annum budget and 500-plus systems

–Recovered NatWest’s stalled transaction monitoring migration, closing open FCA actions and restoring bank-wide monitoring

–Delivered AI and ML automated data controls in a regulated bank, resolving FCA-agreed actions at HSBC

–Fifteen years inside tier-1 banks, within a 30-year career across consulting, technology, central government and media

–Owned a bank’s EMEA regulatory portfolio as de facto transformation COO to the CEO, delivering Dodd-Frank, EMIR, FATCA and CRD-IV with no material findings

–AI and data governance: Oxford-credentialed, with a working governance framework, hands-on agentic AI delivery and ~3PB of data governed

–Established central PMOs for the LloydsTSB and HBOS merger and for Capital One’s card processing outsourcing program

–Built a legacy migration product from zero at Capgemini and sold it for $5M; RegTech go-to-market advisory at HSBC, Deutsche Bank and TCS