Sanjeev Agarwal has joined Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company as a CIO recently. Earlier he was working with Apollo Munich Health Insurance company for three years again as a CIO. He has recently resigned from Apollo Munich Health Insurance.
It would be probably for the first time that Canara HSBC Life Insurance will have a designated CIO. Till now, COO Shalabh Saxena had been carrying out many of the IT and digital transformation initiatives in the company. Even the major plan to go fully digital over the next three years was driven by him. Now, Sanjeev Agarwal would be succeeding him.
Sanjeev Agarwal had work experience for almost three decades with top organizations. Some of the companies he had earlier worked with are Apollo Munich Health Insurance, IBM India, NIIT, and CMC.
Achievements and skills Sanjeev Agarwal
His core competencies that he has built during his long career in the IT domain are Management of IT, infrastructure, applications, and services. In June 2014, Sanjeev Agarwal joined Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company as CIO – Executive Vice President (Information Technology).
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His role as CIO in this company was mainly to manage relationships, alliances of technology with business improvement, enhance customer experience and execute top technology and improvement projects.
In Apollo Munich Health Insurance company, he executed and completed a major project to improve customer experience in the organization. He led a restructuring plan and its execution across all levels of the organization and also formulated business strategies.
Sanjeev Agarwal also developed a digital strategy for the organization spanning across functions like client acquisition, wellness, customer services and operational efficiencies and even executed them. Those initiatives also comprised of Cloud, mobility, and analytics technologies.
The current organization that he has joined, i.e Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company is also known as Canara HSBC Life Insurance. It is among the top private insurers in India. It was launched in June 2008. It is jointly owned by Canara Bank (holding 51%), Oriental Bank of Commerce (23%) and HSBC’s insurance arm HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings Limited (26%).
Date: June 28, 2017