Profile Sanjay Sharma
Corporate Head - IT
IDBI Ltd.

Masters in Electronics
CISA (Certified Information System Auditor) from ISACA, USA.
Certified ISO 9000 lead auditor, CMC, UK


After post graduation has done research work in the area of applied physics - published a paper in Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, New Delhi and was also associated with IIT, Mumbai for brief period.

Started his Banking Technology career in 1991 with State Bank of India, at C & I project. Central Office and was part of core team responsible for roll out of core banking system BankMaster across SBI Branches. Subsequently, he moved to idbi bank in 1995 & laid the IT foundation by setting up IT infrastructure & implementing Core Banking System for the bank. Since then, has been involved in various IT initiatives like Y2K, Technology Conversion projects for Core treasury systems. BPR exercise for CPU/RPU, CPU ISO certification etc. which has further strengthened and aligned the IT infrastructure with Business.

Awards Won:
Recently Sanjay has won following four Technology awards instituted by IBA (Indian Bank's Association):
  • Best Use of IT in Retail Banking - Winner
  • Best Corporate Banking initiative - Winner
  • Outstanding achiever of the year - Individual - Runners up
  • Best payments initiative - Runners up
Also he has been awarded with "Technology Innovator" award by leading technology magazine "DataQuest" and publication house Cyber Media.

Other Achievements:
  • Internet Banking Services - Best in India among all Private & Public Sector Banks - Asian Banker ratings 2002
  • The most feature rich Mobile Banking service in India - Dataquest 2003

First Bank to introduce -
  • ATM Next - Online information on the ATM like Cricket scores, movie listings
  • First ATM network with Audio instructions
  • Easy Fill - The online mobile refilling service
  • ATM locator on MMS mobile
  • eTax collections system - First in India
  • Cart to Card - First in Asia Pacific

Currently, heading the technology function for the merged IDBI group.