Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan
Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan is a strategic executive with 30 years of global business and technology experience in financial industries. His experience includes major business transformations, M&A, managing product launches, setting up global operations, and managing companies through financial challenges. A performance driven executive, he has an entrepreneurial mindset, accumulated from diverse experience spanning startups, technology companies to large publicly traded banking and financial corporations.
He is deeply knowledgeable about enterprise technology, cyber security, operations, customer experience, strategic planning, vendor management financial analysis, and overall risk management. He has worked across retirement, employee benefits, asset management, insurance, and banking sectors. He has extensive experience partnering with technology, audit, HR, and risk committees.
Currently, Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Voya Financial Inc (NASDAQ: VOYA). A member of the Executive Management Team, he is a key advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors. The transformation at Voya was focused on Digital and Data infrastructure creating new capabilities for customers, radically enhancing customer experience across all channels and cost optimization through ecosystem simplification, migration to public cloud and elimination of Mainframe technology. He was instrumental in starting Voya India, currently serving as Chairperson, which is serving as a crucial talent base and global capabilities centre for Voya.
Before joining Voya in 2017, Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan served as Chief Information Officer of core banking for Regions Financial Corp (NASDAQ: RF). He managed the technology and operations teams, the merger of Regions Financial Corp and AmSouth Bank, and was part of the management team that turned the bank into a sustained profitability after the 2007 financial crisis. Santhosh was previously the Vice President of Technology at Fidelity Investments, where he led all aspects of pricing and cash management, supporting the investment management and treasury functions. Prior to this role, he worked for SunGard Data Systems (now Fidelity Information Services – FIS) in a variety of roles and was eventually named Managing Director of Retirement Services for International. He managed global teams with P&L responsibility and grew the business unit setting up green field operations including Japan, Australia, and India. Santhosh started his career as a software developer for a start up in Bangalore, India.
Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan has a BS degree in Computer Science from University of Mysore and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB).
Mr. Santhosh Iyengar Keshavan currently serves on the board of trustee for New York Institute of Technology (since 2021). He also served on the board of Connecticut Insurance and Financial Services, part of the Department of Economic Development (DECD) for the state of CT from April 2018 to March 2024.