Mahindra Satyam hires Niraj Vedwa as BFSI head

IT services firm Mahindra Satyam has appointed Niraj Vedwa as the global head - banking, payments and cards.

Niraj, has over 26 years of experience in the IT industry, and close to 16 years in BFSI (Banking,Financial Services & Insurance) area. At Mahindra Satyam, he will be responsible to grow and support the existing businesses and also to strategise and incubate new service offerings in the above market segments, according to a release.
Before joining Mahindra Satyam Vedwa was with Temenos AG Switzerland, a provider of core banking and private banking products, where he was director - global consumer banking and member of management board.

Prior to Temenos, he was the COO of Nucleus Software where he ran the company and six subsidiaries with P&L responsibilities.