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Prema’s Biography

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Prema Varadhan is a highly experienced leader in financial services and technology.

As President Product and Chief Operating Officer at Temenos, Prema is responsible for leading the Product and Technology organizations to bring the innovation of the Temenos platform to its global customer base, working directly with customers to identify their challenges and matching the Temenos product roadmap to market demands.

Prema also leads Temenos’ Global Services and SaaS Engineering organizations, driving operational excellence and accelerating speed of delivery globally. With this combined responsibility, Prema unifies delivery across Product, SaaS engineering and implementation, which is a pre-requisite for customer success in the SaaS world.

Prema also works closely with Temenos’ client’s C-suite, bringing her leadership and technology expertise to support complex sales campaigns from product perspective.

Prema joined Temenos in 1999 and previously held the roles of Chief Product and Technology Officer and Head of Artificial Intelligence. In these roles, Prema was responsible for... Prema Varadhan is a highly experienced leader in financial services and technology.

As President Product and Chief Operating Officer at Temenos, Prema is responsible for leading the Product and Technology organizations to bring the innovation of the Temenos platform to its global customer base, working directly with customers to identify their challenges and matching the Temenos product roadmap to market demands.

Prema also leads Temenos’ Global Services and SaaS Engineering organizations, driving operational excellence and accelerating speed of delivery globally. With this combined responsibility, Prema unifies delivery across Product, SaaS engineering and implementation, which is a pre-requisite for customer success in the SaaS world.

Prema also works closely with Temenos’ client’s C-suite, bringing her leadership and technology expertise to support complex sales campaigns from product perspective.

Prema joined Temenos in 1999 and previously held the roles of Chief Product and Technology Officer and Head of Artificial Intelligence. In these roles, Prema was responsible for analyzing emerging technologies and architectural trends and practices from across the banking industry and incorporating the findings into Temenos' product strategy and development.

Prema has been with Temenos for more than 20 years. She is passionate about putting customers first and focuses on technology initiatives to improve the client experience with faster, effortless software delivery.

Prema holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications from Anna University, Chennai. moreless

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FinTech Magazine

How is emerging technology transforming the banking sector?

Prema Varadhan, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Temenos, gives her thoughts on the most prominent trends in banking technology, and the importance of composable banking.

Prema’s Background

Temenos

President Product & COO

Jan 2023 - Present

London, UK

Temenos is the world’s #1 banking software company and provides cloud agnostic, cloud-native, API-first digital banking, fund management, core banking, payments and wealth management software products to over 3,000 organisations including 41 of the world’s top 50 banks.

Temenos

Various roles

1999 - Jan 2023

London, UK

During her tenure at Temenos, Prema has held many different roles including Chief Product and Technology Officer, and Head of Artificial Intelligence. She joined the firm in India in 1999 and moved to Temenos in London in 2006.

Media

The Anatomy of a Modern Banking Platform, TCF 2022

Video

May 2022

London, UK

In this video Prema Varadhan explores Temenos' open platform for composable banking. The presentation was part of Temenos Community Forum (TCF) 2022.

The evolution of Temenos Product and Services

Webcast

2022

As part of Temenos' 2022 Capital Markets Day, Prema Varadhan gave a video presentation outlining some of the ongoing structural changes in the banking industry, and Temenos' response to these changes.

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Interviews

Banking Tech Awards 2021 Winner: Temenos – Best Core Banking Solution Provider

Interviewee

Jan 2022

In this interview Prema Varadhan discusses how Temenos’ open platform for composable banking is speeding up product time-to-market for banks and non-banks.

Prema Varadhan: Banks Should Build Back Better

Interviewee

Feb 2021

Prema Varadhan talks to Finews about the role of AI in banking.

Features

Temenos launches AI-driven Corporate Lending Solution for banks

Featured

Jan 2023

Prema Varadhan, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Temenos, describes the benefits of the newly-launched AI-driven Corporate Lending Solution for banks.