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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 24: ETBrandEquity.com, in partnership with Protean eGov Technologies, efficiently concluded the inaugural version of Protean Digital Disruptors 2026, recognizing leaders driving large-scale transformation throughout India’s monetary ecosystem.
The awards spotlighted changemakers throughout banking, fintech, insurance coverage and monetary providers who’re constructing technology-led, scalable and resilient methods. As India’s monetary sector advances on the pillars of digital public infrastructure (DPI), embedded finance and regulatory innovation, these leaders are redefining how monetary providers are designed, delivered and scaled.
The analysis course of was led by a distinguished jury comprising senior business leaders and area consultants:
– Ratan Kumar Kesh, Executive Director and COO, Bandhan Bank- R. Viswesvaran, Managing Director and CEO, India Post Payments Bank- Pankaj Sharma, Head – Business Transformation, IndusInd Bank- Pankaj Sood, Head – Branch Banking, DCB Bank- Rohit Kilam, Senior Leader in Digital and Financial Services- Rakesh R. Dosi, Chief Business & Product Officer, Protean eGov Technologies Limited- Anand Mihir, Partner and Leader – Financial Services Consulting (Domestic), EY- Prasad Sangameshwaran, Editor, ETBrandEquity
The jury assessed nominees on innovation influence, scalability and their contribution to strengthening India’s digital monetary structure, guaranteeing the popularity remained credible and significant.
Protean Digital Disruptors 2026 Winners:
– Anurag Chottani, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Bajaj Finance- Sameer Shetty, Group Executive, Digital Business Transformation & Strategic Programs, Axis Bank- Neeraj Singh, Whole-Time Director & Chief Technology Officer, Groww- Pradeep Pandey, Chief Digital Officer, LIC- Ravi Kumar, Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Technology, Kotak Mahindra Bank- Ganessan Soundiram, Chief Technology Officer, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company- Girish Nayak, Chief Technology Officer, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company- Rahul Chari, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, PhonePe- Avinash Naik, President & Chief Information Officer, Bajaj General Insurance- Mahesh Ramamoorthy, Chief Information Officer, Yes Bank- Saurabh Shukla, Chief Technology Officer, Bank of Baroda- Pinak Chakraborty, Chief Information Officer, Airtel Payments Bank- Vishal Bhatia, Chief Information and Digital Officer, SBI Life Insurance Company- Dhruv Shankar, Chief Digital Officer, Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company- Gangadhar SJ, Head of Technology, Digit Insurance- Johnson Okay Jose, Group President – Chief Technology Officer and Controller Fedserv, Federal Bank- Sony A, Senior General Manager & CIO, Digital, Technology, Alliances & Marketing, South Indian Bank- Siddharth Sureka, Chief AI Officer, Motilal Oswal Financial Services- Saurabh Tiwari, Chief Technology Officer, PolicyBazaar- Ankur Tripathi, Chief Information Officer, AU Small Finance Bank- Soumya Ghosh, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Tata AIA Life Insurance Company- Suhail Ghai, Chief Digital Officer and Head – Operations, Axis Max Life Insurance- Naveen Macharla, Chief Technology Officer, Acko General Insurance- Sajin Mangalathu, CFO, CIO and COO, Hero Fincorp- Shallu Kaushik, Chief Digital Officer, Tata Capital- Devesh Verma, General Manager – Digital Transformation, Bank of Maharashtra- Balaji Nuthalapadi, ED – Technology and Operations, Equitas Small Finance Bank- Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, Group Head – Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, HDFC Bank- Shrini Vishwanath, Co-founder, Upstox- Sourabh Chatterjee, Chief Technology and Digital Transformation Officer, Kotak Life Insurance
Beyond recognizing achievements, Protean Digital Disruptors 2026 goals to encourage the subsequent technology of leaders to construct daring, future-ready establishments and drive purposeful innovation in a quickly evolving panorama.
Commenting on the initiative, Mr. Rakesh Dosi, Chief Business & Product Officer, Protean eGov Technologies Ltd., stated, ‘At Protean, we’re evolving into an AI-first group, centered on enabling population-scale digital methods that transcend incremental digitization. As DPI converges with AI, it’s unlocking a extra clever, adaptive and resilient monetary ecosystem. The Protean Digital Disruptors Awards acknowledge leaders who’re architecting this subsequent section of India’s digital financial system, the place scale, belief and innovation come collectively to drive systemic influence.’
In an period outlined by digital public infrastructure, embedded finance and clever compliance, management is now not about incremental digitization. It is about constructing resilient, future-ready methods that energy the nation’s financial engine. Protean Digital Disruptors 2026 highlights leaders who’re modernizing legacy frameworks, enabling safe digital identities and driving fintech innovation and regulatory transformation, collectively shaping the spine of India’s digital financial system.
About Protean :
Protean eGov Technologies Limited is engaged within the enterprise of growing citizen-centric and population-scale e-governance options. Protean is an info technology-enabled options firm conceptualizing, growing, and executing vital and population-scale greenfield expertise options. The firm collaborates with the Indian authorities and has intensive expertise in creating digital public infrastructure and growing modern citizen-centric e-governance options.
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