Leadership Team

Mr. Banesh Prabhu — Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Banesh brings over 25 years of international Operations, Technology and Financial Services industry leadership to his role as CEO of aurionPro.

Prior to joining aurionPro, Banesh was the Global Operations Head of Citibank International O&T where he was responsible for implementing and developing operations and servicing strategies for Citi’s international consumer business that services over 80 million customers across 55 countries throughout Asia, EMEA, and Latin America. Banesh will leverage his global leadership experience in Operations and Technology along with a deep understanding of the Banking and Financial Services industries to continue the expansion of aurionPro’s global footprint and development of aurionPro’s software, consulting, and outsourcing offerings.

Banesh is a Chartered Accountant and has earned Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of General Law degrees from the University of Mumbai.

Mr. Sanjay A. Desai — Executive Director

Sanjay Desai has 19 years of varied and rich experience across banking business development, product management, operations and systems. He gained global banking and technology experience through his stints with the Citigroup and brings in specific experience of the Middle East market.

Prior to joining our Company as Promoter Director, Sanjay was Director-Incubation Business in BFL MphasiS.

He has been with our Company since 2003. Mr. Sanjay Desai is a Chartered Accountant and an alumnus of IIM, Bangalore.

Mr. Amit R. Sheth — Managing Director

Amit Sheth co-founded aurionPro in 1997 along with two other co-founders. At aurionPro, Amit continues to be the key driver of growth strategies for banking and financial services sector world-wide. In addition to general management and strategic planning, Amit is also responsible to form strategic partnerships and alliances.

Amit brings more than 14 years of rich experience in corporate finance, equities and technology. He further brings deep domain expertise of banking operations, especially in cash management area.

Prior to co-founding aurionPro, he held key positions at Twentieth Century Finance and Lloyds Securities. Amit is an engineering graduate and MBA in finance.

Mr. Paresh C. Zaveri — Director

Paresh Zaveri, co-founder of our company, has been and continues to remain the strategic architect of overall growth of company's business world-wide.

He brings over 14 years of deep experience in the areas of corporate finance, supply chain, general management and strategic planning.

Based in Singapore, Paresh continues to lead the business development initiatives in the Far Eastern and American markets. He holds engineering and MBA (finance) degrees.

Samir Shah — Managing Director — North America

Samir has over 12 years of strong technology and management experience in banking and electronic payments industries and has overseen delivery of key payments solutions for premier banks and FIs in the USA.

As a pioneering member of aurionPro management team, he started aurionPro Internet Applications Group during early Internet days in India and subsequently founded aurionPro US. Based in California, Samir is responsible for and continues to drive overall growth of aurionPro North America businesses. Additionally, he serves on the board of Denver based PaySimple, Inc, PriorityCommerce, Inc and DC based XTS, Inc.

Samir holds engineering degree in computer science and MBA in finance.

Robert Levine, Global Head – IAM and Security Business Unit

Robert Levine brings more than 25 years of technology management experience to aurionPro’s Global Security business unit as its Global Operating Head. His experience includes significant customer and vendor side enterprise software development and integration knowledge. Previously he was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company in Technology & Operations, Managing Director of Deutsche Bank in Technology Investment Banking, Interim CEO and VP of Transindigo an Information Security firm he sold to RSA (now EMC). He also served on the board of IQ Financial, a global software supplier of front, middle and back-office financial services technology selling to global financial firms that was later sold to Misys.

Jonathan Bank, EVP Marketing

Jonathan brings extensive consulting management, marketing, business development, and Venture Capital experience to his role with aurionPro.

Jonathan joined the aurionPro management team through the acquisition of Coban Corporation, an established consulting firm focused on delivering web solutions to Fortune 500 companies, where he led Sales and Marketing as CEO. He has held management and leadership roles with Enterprise Software Vendor Vignette in their Professional Services and Product Management organizations, as well as with Venture Capital firm Redleaf Group where he led technology analysis and strategy in support of investment decision making and portfolio company development. Jonathan started his career with Accenture where he was an initial member of an elite group of technologists focused on internet solutions, leading some of the earliest and most innovative web-based application development projects for Fortune 500 clients.

Mr. Bank attended Tufts University where he completed his Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering.