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Sathish has over 15 years of experience in developing software and products primarily in the Banking and Financial Sector. Apart from performing various roles such as developer and business analyst, he is an accomplished project manager who has implemented projects for Banking Majors (JP Morgan Chase, AMEX, and ABN AMRO) from onshore as well as offshore locations. Sathish is a Subject Matter Expert in Credit Card & Credit Risk domains.

He co-founded(&exited) Effitrac Solutions to empower SME’s through innovative solutions and laid a strong foundation for the company which is now causing ripples in the ERP industry.

Sathish is proficient in Mainframe and Java technology stacks

Lisa is a data specialist, with more than 20 years’ experience at Nielsen IQ working with different sources of data, managing complex data integration requirements in bespoke software.

She has worked closely with development teams to translate external and internal user requirements into a user-friendly interface to meet requirements.

She has managed large scale software transitions in an agile development framework, focusing on the customer and data quality integrity.

She has implemented effective ways of working across global operations teams and bridges the relationship between sales and operations.

Lisa is passionate about process improvement and establishing standards to enable scalability.

Nirmala started off her career as a Finance Analyst with an automobile manufacturing company and subsequently moved to Risk and Compliance. She spent over 15 years in gaining experience on SOX Compliance, Operational Risk Management across all 3 Lines of Defence and Finance Operations at some of the world’s largest global banks and MNCs across industries (HSBC, Standard Chartered, Hewlett Packard, Carphone Warehouse – BestBuy).

Nirmala is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor. She has handled large scale programmes and projects in risk, cost management, Operations, organisation scale-up across multiple geographies right from design through implementation.

Before founding 1RS, Bea gained vast experience across all 3 Lines of Defence gained at some of the world’s largest global banks and financial institutions (HSBC, JP Morgan and American Express). Bea has been at the forefront of global change, technology and risk programmes, driving the design and implementation of the associated technological solutions and frameworks for:

Global regulatory programmes such as SOX, SAO, FATCA, Global Financial Crime risk remediation Operational Risk frameworks within global functions (technologies, finance, HR), Global M&A and divestment programmes, managing buyer risk, separation risk and transitional service risk.

Before founding 1RS, Tim spent over 20 years in the banking sector in Front and Middle Office, Operations, Technology, Finance, and Risk at some of the world’s largest, most complex and innovative financial organisations. He has gained extensive experience in all sectors and functions of financial services from senior roles at JPMorgan, UBS, HSBC, Standard Bank and Bank of America. He has over a decade spent designing technical solutions, and running and reengineering risk functions in the 1st and 2nd line at business-aligned, function and group level. Tim has deep knowledge and experience in designing and implementing all aspects of internal control and operational risk frameworks. He is also knowledgeable in technology solutions and managing complex change initiatives required to satisfy regulatory and business requirements. Tim also has successfully overseen significant regulatory remediation programmes and regulatory inspections within operational risk. Earlier in his career, he qualified as a chartered accountant and worked in audit at PWC.