Seeking challenges is the lifeblood of technical professions, driving continuous growth, innovation, and job satisfaction. In fields like engineering, computer science, and software development, analytical skills are paramount in identifying problems and devising effective solutions. Professionals thrive on tackling complex issues, using data and critical thinking to navigate a landscape of ever-evolving obstacles. Praveen Kesani, Head of Transformation and Digitization and Technology Executive (CTO) for Commercial and Corporate Banking at Wells Fargo, exemplifies this mindset. His relentless pursuit of challenges not only fuels his professional gratification but also propels his team and organization toward groundbreaking advancements in technology and banking.

Here’s more about Praveen Kesani

Visionary Technology Executive with 20 plus years of diverse experience in managing financial services portfolio across digital channels, payments, treasury, lending, commercial and corporate investment banking, retail, fraud mitigation, due diligence and onboarding operations domains. Praveen is a leader with deep experience in conceptualization and delivery of engaging and efficient customer experiences and platforms. Effective in combing problem solving, agile delivery and innovation/transformation strategies.

Praveen has experience in building high performance delivery and engineering teams and managing global organizations of 200+ staff and 50M+ budgets.

Delivers Consistent Results in Optimizing the Business Value of IT:

- Run technology as a business, identifying opportunities to drive growth and innovation, while

understanding that investment decisions have a direct business impact.

- Apply a balanced approach between focusing on the disruptive potential of digital, APIs AI, Cloud,

Mobility and Automation to drive transformative change while taking into account legacy systems/processes.

- Closely collaborate with all organizational functions to ensure a common language for essential

conversations with key stakeholders, and provide visibility into the details of strategy, risks and execution.