Vitaly Nechaev

Entrepreneurial fintech senior executive with 20+ years of experience in data and technology with a particular focus on financial services industry, who has globally managed teams of 120 staff and multi-million budgets. Successfully delivered global projects for top UK and US financial companies specialising in digital transformation, cloud and microservices. Significantly increased profits, whilst making huge cost savings and efficiency gains for the end clients. An excellent communicator, whose skill is successfully bridging the intricate relationship between senior stakeholders, regulators, IT and operations, helping the client successfully embrace business change and digital transformation.

- Successfully delivered a suite of digital transformation projects for Prime Services department of a major Investment Bank, building a federated and loosely coupled platforms on AWS cloud - Transformed business of a leading London FX Broker, managing a technology budget of £10m and launching 5 new innovative software products, that increased company revenues by 250% - Introduced big data augmentation technology and managed a budget of £3m at a leading London private equity firm, increasing annual profits by 120% - Pioneered an open banking initiative across three leading African banks with an estimated $100bn impact on the region, subject to regulatory approvals - Designed and implemented an Azure and Microservices based risk management and credit scoring platform for SME loans at a leading bank in Africa, successfully liaising with regulators and senior stakeholders - Strategic technology planning, requirements definition, IT governance, thought leadership and supervision, ROI and budget management, process and technology (re)engineering, distributed team management, contract negotiations, cross-organization collaboration, business change and digital transformation - Deep domain expertise in investment banking, asset management, private equity, hedge-funds, insurance, FX and payments - Hands on current experience and deep knowledge of a variety of technologies including Microservices, .NET Core, Angular, React, Node, Java, iOS/Android, Azure/AWS/Docker, ML/AI frameworks, NoSQL, Hadoop/Spark, data-mining and deep-learning, blockchain, semantic technologies • Exceptional problem-solver with keen ability to resolve technology and business issues • Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communicator who can deliver effective presentations, consult on technology projects, and maintain collaborative relationships