Mr. Rawal helps companies focus on the future by helping them identify opportunities for improvements. He supports strategy development and business redesign through assessing existing operations and technology services that are hindering growth as well as analyzing risk, customer data, industry best practices and vendor management. Either as an advisor or interim leader, he then proceeds with implementation of recommendations and strategies. As an interim CIO, he has stabilized businesses, addressed regulatory issues, delivered business critical initiatives and established IT best practices while recruiting and onboarding new IT leadership and teams.

In addition, Mr. Rawal has advised multiple developing countries on the efficacy and efficiency of their payments’ ecosystems with a focus on financial inclusion. Most notably, he worked with an African country’s social intervention agency to modernize and establish efficient benefit delivery channels leveraging mobile money and payment products and services.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Rawal was the COO of a FinTech company focused on algorithmic trade execution and smart order routing. He was also a Partner in Accenture’s Capital Markets group, where he was instrumental in building their Capital Markets Data Management services business.

Mr. Rawal earned a bachelor’s degree in business information systems from Staffordshire University.