Board of Directors

Arun Founded Intellect Design Arena with the dream of delivering from India world class IT Products, Platforms and Technologies for the Global Financial Sector. The experience of working with Global leaders in this space for over three decades as Co-Founder of Nucleus Software and Founder of Polaris Software provided him with the domain expertise which was blended with superior technology in realizing this vision.

Intellect Design, the world’s first full spectrum Financial Technology Company in Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets, selling enterprise grade products and platforms in 57 countries, covering 270 leading Global Banks and Financial Institutions worldwide.

Arun is a proponent of Design Thinking and champions its adoption and practice in Industry, Academics, Government and Entrepreneurs. He is passionate about Design Thinking as a science and philosophy to create the biggest impact on individual and organisational performance. Integrating his deep FinTech expertise and Design Thinking passion, Arun’s latest creation is eMach.ai – the world’s largest, most comprehensive and innovative open finance platform that empowers global banks to compose their own signature solutions.

Arun as an Institution Maker has founded:

School of Design Thinking – focussed on shaping the thinking of young minds and professionals across different sectors through Design The Thinking© philosophy;
Mission Samriddhi – a social impact enterprise dedicated to holistic development of rural India, through the design and development of projects that are sustainable and capable of scale to positively impact the larger population.
Ullas Trust – recognise academic excellence in students from economically challenged sections of our society and encourage a ‘can do’ spirit, for them to chase their dreams and aspirations.

Arun has authored books namely “UnMukt: Science and Art of Design Thinking”, “Digital: The Art of The Possible” and “From Teenager to Achiever: The Power of 5 Minds”.
He also leads/participates in Government Forums and Startup Ecosystems to further the spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the IT space viz (i) Chief Mentor of FinBlue (A Financial Technology Center of Entrepreneurship by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) in association with ELCOT, Govt of Tamil Nadu), (ii) Member of National Software Product Mission (NSPM) of MeitY, Govt of India, (iii) Member of STPI Chennai’s Standing Executive Board and Advisory Council for Incubation Facility (iv) Chairperson of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Information Technology Ranchi.

He has been honoured with many awards… prominent amongst them are Dronacharya Award by TiECON Chennai and Lifetime Achievement award by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).