Vivek Gupta

Vivek Gupta serves as the President & Global Head of Consulting at Intellect. Prior to joining Intellect, Vivek served as President & Head of Wholesale Banking Products at Axis Bank, one of India’s top three private sector universal banks. As a member of Axis Bank’s Management Committee, he was responsible for defining the strategic roadmap, driving large-scale technology transformation, and delivering above-market growth in a multi-USD billion P&L for the Wholesale Banking Product Business. The Products included Payments & Cash Management, Trade & Supply Chain, Current Account Liabilities, Custody & Capital Markets, and Digital Transformation. He also led the transformation of Axis Bank’s largest offshore banking presence at GIFT City, spanning both corporate and retail business lines.

Previously, Vivek held several senior leadership roles at ANZ in Hong Kong, including: Global Head– Trade & Supply Chain Products; Co-Head-Cash Management Products and Head-Trade & Supply Chain, APAC. His career spans top global banks, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, across diverse geographies such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Eastern Europe, and India. This broad exposure has shaped his deep expertise in Wholesale Banking and Global Transaction Banking, coupled with a sharp understanding of local market dynamics.

From a regulatory and industry standpoint, he has played a key role in shaping industry discourse as a Global Board Director at the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT), Washington D.C. and as Chair of the BAFT’s Asia Pacific Council. His contributions include regulatory advocacy with APRA, MAS, among others and driving financial infrastructure initiatives such as eTradeConnect, a blockchain-based trade platform in Hong Kong, in conjunction with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. 

At Intellect, Vivek leads Intellect Consulting across all its Business Units by delivering both strategic and operational value to our clients, distinctively. Backed by our pioneering eMACH.ai framework and Purple Fabric AI propositions, he is helping our key clients drive above-market growth, simplifying their end-to-end businesses and innovating to scale up in select large TAM industry verticals.