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Chief Product Officer

Dipankar Dey, a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science comes with varied experience working for top 50 BFSI customers. Dipankar has produced many pathbreaking solutions during his career for leading customers in the banking sector. With primary focus in Payments, he has extensive exposure to retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, mortgages, risk management and other critical business areas within the banking sector. Internationally well-travelled, Dipankar understands payment systems across different parts of the world and its working culture. He also has exposure of working with numerous product companies and FinTechs.

In an illustrative career spanning across 25+ years, Dipankar has evolved through the value chain of IT Industry. He started his career as a programmer, graduated to a project manager and was soon managing end to end delivery for large accounts while working for IT MNCs. A part of his career saw him take up roles on client relationship, sales management, and solution architecting. Over the years, he has learnt the art of taking a strategic point of view guided by analytics and aligning the solution to customer or industry needs.

A futurist by nature, Dipankar leads the product charter for RS Software. He defines the roadmap for products by constantly being in touch with the industry to understand the technology transformation and business process evolution.

Director

Ram Mohan is the Chief Strategy Officer of Identity Digital, the second largest internet domain name company in the world, where he works closely with the CEO, board members and executives to achieve the company’s long-term vision. Prior to this, he was the COO of Afilias, a domain name registry infrastructure company, leading it from its founding to significant business growth and success, resulting in its acquisition by Identity Digital in 2020.

After immigrating from India at age 22, Ram worked at Unisys Corporation and First Data Corporation before joining Philadelphia’s first Internet startup firm Infonautics Corporation in 1995, eventually becoming their CTO and helping them list on the Nasdaq stock exchange in 1996. Ram was a founder of the technology behind TurnTide, an anti-spam company acquired by Symantec (a provider of internet security) in July 2004. He served on the Board of ICANN, the global non-profit that oversees the Internet, from 2008 to 2018. He currently serves on the Board of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and several startup companies.

A cybersecurity expert, he co-founded the Security and Stability Advisory Committee at ICANN, which provides advice on major threats to Internet infrastructure. He is an inventor on seventeen U.S. patents for his work in Internet technology. Ram was the recipient of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s ‘40 Under 40′ award, InfoWorld’s ‘Top 100 Technology Leaders’ award, a CIO100 honoree, and Guinness World Record holder (2018).

He completed his BS in Electrical Engineering and his MBA in India before working on his MS at Drexel and post-graduate coursework at Harvard.

• Country-level central real-time payments (RTP) infrastructure for account-to-account (A2A) payments.
• Adoption of RTP at banks/financial institutions (FIs).
• Accelerating adoption of RTP through high-volume use-cases such as bill/invoice payments –
• Fraud and risk management solution at banks or as part of the central payment infrastructure.
• Modernization of banks’ payment systems to offer digital services
• Merchant acquiring and value-added services, including combining payments and data

Director

Shital Jain brings to our Board more than 31 years of experience with Citibank, one of the world’s largest financial services providers. Mr. Jain’s assignments with Citibank involved work in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Canada. He played a lead role in establishing the consumer credit practice for Citibank in India. Mr. Jain remains active in the financial services industry participating in consulting assignments worldwide, including on going projects in Thailand and Indonesia. Mr. Jain is a Fulbright scholar, receiving his MBA from Indiana University, where he was elected to the Beta Gamma Society, whose membership includes the top 25 percent of MBAs in the US.

General Manager

Aniruddha Rai Chaudhuri is Head of Business Operations at RS Software, responsible for overseeing the physical and digital infrastructure of the company as well as Enterprise Resource Planning and MIS. He brings more than 23 years of experience driving operational efficiency through a high performance workplace and creating business value for clients in an IT outsourcing industry that continues to evolve. Mr Chaudhuri is responsible for determining the current and future enterprise infrastructure needs, and oversees the design and implementation of information systems required to support them. With a focus on benchmarking and developing best practices within the organization, his depth and range of experience encompasses business process efficiency, software development, project management, quality assurance, compliance, and people management. Mr Chaudhuri holds a Science degree and is a Certified Quality Analyst from QAI in the United States.

Senior Vice-President

Sumit Misra has the distinction of serving in a variety of roles for major companies in the IT outsourcing industry working as an engineer, project lead and project manager on large complex projects. With the experience gained from a professional career that spans more than two decades, he now helps leading companies in the payment industry determine technical strategies that help them stay current and build competencies that best fit the needs of their customers. At RS Software, Mr. Misra strengthens and extends our position as a leader in the payments industry by managing the RS School of Payments and RS Payments Lab enhancing our domain expertise by instituting best practices in knowledge management. He holds a Master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.

Director

Sarita Jain has been a Director on the RS Software Board since the company’s inception in 1989. In addition to possessing exemplary administrative, communication and organizational skills, Mrs. Jain holds a master’s degree in English literature and an Undergraduate degree in Mass Communication.

Director

Richard Launder has more than 20 years of experience in the payments industry with strengths in sales, marketing and operations. As a managing director in Europe, Middle East and Africa for one of the largest software companies in the payments industry, Mr. Launder generated more than $130 million in revenue by developing a distribution model for the region based on acquisitions, direct operations, joint ventures, distributors and sales agents. He is expert in strategic selling, building effective sales teams and marketing within diverse markets and cultures. Mr.. Launder was recently added to the RS Software board to help the company continue to develop growth strategies for the business.

Chairman & Managing Director

Raj Jain’s global vision, diverse talents and leadership traits have given him the opportunity to be a pioneer and an entrepreneur in business and for institutions focused on individual and professional growth. He cofounded the fourth chapter in Silicon Valley of Young Presidents Organization (YPO). YPO is a global network of young chief executives that connects 18,000 peers and their families in more than 100 countries to learn, exchange ideas and address the challenges leaders face today. Mr. Jain also started the TiE chapter in Kolkata. TiE’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. TiE’s focus is on generating and nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs to facilitate wealth creation with a commitment to giving back to the community. In addition, Mr. Jain has played an important role in the building of one of the most successful industry associations globally. He has served on the Executive Council of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), both as a member and officer. In 1999, he was elected Chairman of NASSCOM by its Executive Council and, in that same year, acknowledged by Ernst & Young as one of the top 20 Outstanding Entrepreneurs of the Year. He is a regular speaker global forums and at universities.

After receiving his BS and MBA degrees in the United States, Mr. Jain sensed that the convergence of computing power with telecommunications would soon created an outlet for addressing the significant demand for software development. As a student of US corporate history, he could see an emerging opportunity in the area of Information technology outsourcing. He left his job as a software systems analyst in Los Angeles, California and returned to India founding R S Software (India) Ltd. with the goal of providing quality software services to international markets. With more than 30 years of professional experience, Mr. Jain has pioneered the domain-focused model for IT outsourcing. At RS Software this model is used to combine the company’s IT outsourcing methodology and its knowledge of the electronic payments industry. Mr. Jain’s management style is to lead from the front. His work around the world has provided him with a solid understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of global business and culture. He utilizes his significant professional and personal networks to hire individuals who are the best and brightest providing RS Software with a world-class team to support its vision of being the global leader in providing technology solutions for the electronic payments industry.

Director

R. Ramaraj is an icon in his field. He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000 and voted IT Person of the Year in a CNET.com poll in India that same year. Mr. Ramaraj was invited by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to be a member of UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and was the Co-Founder and CEO of Sify Limited, the pioneer and leader company in Internet, networking and e-commerce services in India. Mr. Ramaraj is the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital, a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and the first Indian to be invited to serve on the Board of Directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras as well as an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.