Sudeep Kanjilal

I play in the interesting spaces between technology, marketing, and human behavior.

20+ years of experience in Digital Banking, Digital Retail/Commerce, Digital Payments, Digital Security and Innovation, successfully built, launched and scaled digital products for 10 of the world’s top 20 global banks, and Fortune 500 retailers.

Started career by setting up the first Bond Research group in India and introduced multiple new products/reforms in the Indian Financial Markets. Next, worked with a silicon valley start-up, as Product Manager for 3G/WCDMA protocol stack, which powered world's first smart phone - Palm TREO.

Led acquisition of a text-based payments startup operating developing markets, and then expanded the product into a mobile recommendation-discovery-and-offer platform, which was deployed in 7 countries. Built and ran a business of $115M P&L.

I have led the commercialization of world's first card network-based Mobile wallet, conceptualized and launched world's first payment/commerce digitization and tokenization platform (world's largest commercial fintech platform), and then designed and launched the MasterCard's Open Digital Platform, that is the core of MasterCard's strategic shift to a B2B2C model.

Specialties: Open Platforms, API Management and Strategy, New Product Development, Innovation Design, Digital wallets/Payments, Social Payments, Credit Card Processing, and People Leadership/Development