Sumit is a payments specialist in the U.S. financial services landscape. He has led several initiatives in the industry, ranging from new products to modernizing existing frameworks, driving a positive impact in the world of payments. Guided by his quest for excellence, he navigated through an accelerated career path to become Senior Vice President, head of payments ecosystem enablement at Wells Fargo. In this role he is responsible for developing and executing strategies with payments industry bodies for bank’s future payments initiatives, to help consumers and institutional customers move money seamlessly and securely.
Sumit joined Wells Fargo from Deloitte Consulting where he was an Associate Partner and a senior leader in Deloitte’s payments practice, helping his clients navigate dynamic disruptive markets from delivering strategy to full implementation across the payments value chain. Before Deloitte, Sumit was a Principal Consultant at Atos Syntel with a P&L responsibility for a $20Million portfolio, leading an organization with more than 160 team members globally.
Sumit is an author, speaker and contributor to numerous articles, papers, podcast, and conferences. He is one of the few elected Board of Directors at the U.S. Faster Payments Council and represents the large financial institution segment. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Phoenix chapter for the customer experience certificate program at University of California, Irvine.