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Preeti Molasi-Gargatti

Preeti Molasi-Gargatti

Waedenswil

Summary

Senior IT and Business Operations Leader with 20+ years of experience in advising COO, implementing, and influencing system, people and process changes based on business goals and priorities.


Responsible for technology roadmap (CRM, Investment Platform), achieving business goals and functional capabilities.


Makes decisions based on capabilities needed for the business to deliver its roadmap and on the marketplace evolution and potential application of information technology.


Direct and manage business process digitisation/re-engineering associated with existing and developing business processes and systems.


Select and build strong teams through mentoring, and periodic meetings, workshops. Motivate team through team building exercises while bringing new technology skills to uplift their know-how.


What matters to me to successfully deliver is the company culture, the team, and the market’s readiness.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager, Virtual/Augmented Reality

P-XR AG
08.2023 - Current
  • Build a successful partnership with external vendors for solution implementation including stakeholder management.
  • Project plan, delivery and rollout.

CRM Product Owner

Vontobel Asset Management AG
01.2020 - 07.2023
  • Defined the vision, strategy and a 3-year roadmap with various stakeholders, including management, proposed & aligned timeline and budget based on sales goals.
  • Provided day-to-day support through a network of 10 regional sales champions.

Client Health Analysis - 2020/21

  • Project Coordination across Vontobel divisions to build a data lake of sales and marketing touchpoints.
  • Build an MVP on client health assessment.

Head Investment Platform Management

Vontobel Asset Management AG
06.2016 - 12.2019
  • Defined the yearly roadmap with senior management
  • Implemented using Scrum-based Agile concepts.
  • Development framework & Trained project managers.
  • Led team of 2 persons and 5 externals


Target Operating Model Asset Management Platform – 2018 / 2019

  • Overall lead to define the target operating model of the investment platform together with the COO
  • Current state documentation and gap analysis.
  • Conducted Stakeholder interviews & defined future capability model
  • Prepare RfP’s , conduct vendor solution presentation, assessment and finalizing.


Cost cutting initiative – integration of systems - 2016

  • Consolidation of portfolio management systems
  • Outsourced non-critical business processes.


Expansion projects - Diverse Trading related– 2013 to 2017

  • Established a prime brokerage for derivate trading, OTC brokers for Total Return Swaps.
  • Led the integration of Bloomberg EMSX and TSOX platforms .

Senior Business Analyst

FBA AG
02.2010 - 11.2012
  • Business requirement analysis and solution proposal to KPMG for validation and confirmation
  • MVP implementation of the solution across all the asset classes in Bloomberg
  • Coordination of the implementation across all the Bloomberg development teams.
  • Supporting KPMG and Bloomberg in getting the approval from ESTV (Swiss Tax Authorities) to sell the solution to financial institutions.

Associate Director, IT Business Consultant

Swiss & Global Asset Management AG
10.2005 - 01.2010

Business Process Optimization

  • Used Lean Six Sigma concepts to improve fund and client report production process.
  • Improved production from 10 to 3 business days and reduced client complaints about data quality.


Special Task Force - Risk Exposure 2008 Crisis

  • Led the task force to measure counter-party risk exposure during the crisis of 2008 and report to the regional chief risk managers for their reporting to the local authorities and large institutional clients.

Associate Director, Business Application Owner

Swiss Life Asset Management AG
05.2004 - 09.2005
  • Defned and implemented yearly roadmap for the investment platform
  • Undertook new feature integration and rollout


Associate Director, IT Business Analyst/Project Leader

UBS AG
01.2000 - 04.2004
  • Lead the project with a team of 3 external developers to implement a large scale reconciliation system for the custody business
  • Implemented exchange traded derivatives into the portfolio management system
  • Provided day to day operational support to internal clients

Senior IT Analyst/Lead Software Developer

Diverse IT Companies
01.1994 - 12.1999
  • Developed end to end solutions for finance, and retail industry
  • Managed a team of 5 developers

Education

MBA - Innovation, Strategy And Entrepenuership

EPFL
Lausanne
12.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Gogte Institute of Technology
Karnataka University, India
01.1995

Skills

    Organizational

    IT Strategy

    Vendor Management

    Project Framework & Governance

    Mentoring and Team motivation

    Procurement

    General Information Security

    Strategic Planning, Assessment

    Dealing with complexity

    Capability model assessment

    Process optimisation

    Decision making

    Result and Outcome

    Change Management

    Critical questioning

    Innovativeness

    Competitor Analysis, SWOT

    Project Management

    Project planning

    Project Delivery

    Budgeting

    Stakeholder management

    Agile Scrum / Kanban

    Waterfall

    Risk Management

    Business analysis

    Social Competencies

    Win-Win

    Ownership & Responsibility

    Collaboration

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Project Manager, Virtual/Augmented Reality

P-XR AG
08.2023 - Current

CRM Product Owner

Vontobel Asset Management AG
01.2020 - 07.2023

Head Investment Platform Management

Vontobel Asset Management AG
06.2016 - 12.2019

Senior Business Analyst

FBA AG
02.2010 - 11.2012

Associate Director, IT Business Consultant

Swiss & Global Asset Management AG
10.2005 - 01.2010

Associate Director, Business Application Owner

Swiss Life Asset Management AG
05.2004 - 09.2005

Associate Director, IT Business Analyst/Project Leader

UBS AG
01.2000 - 04.2004

Senior IT Analyst/Lead Software Developer

Diverse IT Companies
01.1994 - 12.1999

MBA - Innovation, Strategy And Entrepenuership

EPFL

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Gogte Institute of Technology
Preeti Molasi-Gargatti