{"id":997034,"date":"2025-12-29T13:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intellectdesign\/?post_type=members&#038;p=997034"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:26:27","slug":"manish-maakan","status":"publish","type":"members","link":"https:\/\/www.intellectdesign.com\/members\/manish-maakan\/","title":{"rendered":"Manish Maakan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"997034\" class=\"elementor elementor-997034\" data-elementor-post-type=\"members\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7348319 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7348319\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08eee66 insights-child-banner e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"08eee66\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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He has passionately built award-winning products led by high-performing innovation teams to enable his vision of Contextual Banking \u2013 ensuring banks genuinely help their customers in real time, bringing the same level of contextual awareness and support consumers experience in other field.<\/p><p>During the last seven years, Manish has led Wholesale Banking to being the most-preferred partner of choice for Digital Transaction Banking transformation programs globally. Wholesale Banking is currently trusted by 88 of the best global Corporate Banks across 55 countries, and is rated # 1 in different categories by 12 analysts and most recently as # 1 in Wholesale Banking-Transaction Banking by IBS.Manish joined Polaris FT in 2007 and led its Product business. \u00a0 The product was called Intellect, and that name gave birth to our current organisation\u2019s name. He was a key architect in designing the growth strategy, building the business and getting the team in place in its founding years till it reached $ 75M revenue.<\/p><p>Manish previously served in key leadership roles, leading transformations as CIO at GE Money, setting up the Technology centre for Whirlpool\u2019s India business, and as a management consultant at E&amp;Y, building financial solutions for EMI Records, building on his earlier experience working as a technologist in IBM and several other IT companies in the US.<\/p><p>Manish\u2019s impressive career spans nearly three decades. He brings a differentiated design-thinking approach to innovation, growth and complexity reduction in business. 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