With a passion to leverage the power of available and emerging
technologies to
solve real life business issues, improve operating efficiency, design
new
products and processes that would touch the lives of Indians, Mr. Pravir
Vohra
joins New Age Markets in Electricity Private Limited’s Advisory Board.
With his unique ability to evaluate technology from a business
perspective, Mr.
Vohra leverages it to reduce costs or generate combined revenues. Mr.
Vohra has
immense experience and knowledge in IT architecture, domain expertise in
financial products, process re‐engineering, IT operations and strategy
and an
incredible foresight in the everchanging landscape of today with his
stint
spanning close to four decades in the industry. In ICICI bank, Mr, Vohra
managed
multiple functions including the Retail Technology Group, and Technology
Management Group. During his tenure here, he came across the deployment
of
technology across the bank’s branches and was determined to bring in
future-ready, independent, and scalable infrastructure. His goal later
was to
ensure to bring in a meaningful process in the technology with
fulfilling the
final objective of remaining a flexible, agile and competitive group of
ICICI
bank.
Post his retirement as Group CTO from ICICI Bank in 2012, he mentored
start-ups
in the payments space and even completed a 2-year assignment to set up
the Tech
& Ops function at New Development Bank, Shanghai. He continues to serve
on the
Technology Advisory Committees of organizations like the Bombay Stock
Exchange,
NCDEX, Indian Clearing Corporation, SEBI, NPCI and Power Exchange India
among
others. He is an independent Director on the Boards of Thomas Cook India
Ltd.,
IDFC First Bank, NCML Ltd. & 3i Infotech Ltd. Mr. Vohra has served on
numerous
technology & functional committees set up by organizations such as the
Central
Board of Direct Taxes, the Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIAI) as
well as the Reserve Bank of India, the Indian Banking Association and
NPCI. He
has also served as a nominee director on the boards of Loyalty Solutions
&
Research Pvt Ltd, ICICI Securities Ltd, Firstsource Solutions Ltd and as
an
independent director on MCX India Ltd, Quess Corporation and Goldman
Sachs AMC
(India) Ltd.
Accolades won by Mr. Vohra include The Asian Banker Achievement Award for
Technology & Operations in 2006 and the Symantec Asia South Visionary
2008. He
was also one of the three CIOs of international banks to have featured
on the
Information Week's Global CIO 50 List for 2009.
Having completed his post-graduation from St. Stephen’s college,
University of
Delhi, in Economics, Mr. Vohra is a Certified Associate of the Indian
Institute
of Bankers. He began his career with the SBI and worked there for over
23 years.
Later, he held various senior level positions in technology as well as
business
in the bank in India and internationally. He was responsible for the
technology
function for State Bank's branches in the US and Canada. He also headed
the
Bank’s Forex Division at New Delhi. With the growing technology, Mr.
Vohra
focused on enabling to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and pushing
competitiveness and developing various products that boost relevance in
the
market.
Mr. Vohra’s ability to examine technology from the business ideology and
enabling
it to cut cost, or generate revenue together with the incredible
foresight in an
ever-growing market landscape is what distinguishes him from others.
