Emergence and Growth of Fintechs in India with Ashutosh Dabral

In our recent video interview, we have featured Ashutosh Dabral who was the CPO at MoneyTap and 2 times startup founder in the past. This discussion highlights the reason behind India’s fintech firms taking giant strides in the past half-a-dozen years in transforming financial services delivery. 

There was a significant impact of covid-19 outbreak on Fintech firms, and Ashutosh shares his experiences of how Fintech emerged and grew in this period catering to customer requirements efficiently. He also shared his view on Fintechs rise above the traditional banks in the coming few years. According to him there will be a collaboration between both instead of a competition to serve the customers.

Interviewee: Ashutosh Dabral

Ashutosh has 19+ overall experience 15+ of product management experience across big tech firms and startups. In the early stage of his career he also spent a few years in banking at ICICI Bank. He has worked at companies like Yahoo, Dell, Target and AOL. He has product management experience in various domains like consumer internet , ecommerce and Fintech. He is passionate about building new products and improving the life of customers. 

He was the CPO at MoneyTap and 2 times startup founder in the past.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Strategic Agile Transformation with Karl Scotland

In a recent interview with us, we featured Karl Scotland. He is an Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services. He shared his wonderful journey on why he chose Agile as his preferred field of expertise. We discussed different ways of implementing Agile strategically. Karl shared his unique experiences and said all the organizations should look at Agile strategically which helps the Agile Transformation become easier.

He shared a few tips on strategic deployment for professionals. We also discussed the Cynefin framework briefly, its importance while practicing and challenges. He also highlighted his views on how the present and future of Agile is going to be.

Interviewee: Karl Scotland, Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services.

Karl Scotland helps businesses become Learning Organizations. Over the last 20 years he has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL, Legal & General and Alegis. During this time, he has been a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result he was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)