Amit Bhute

Amit heads the Global Banking and Financial Services practice at Virtusa. With over 18 years of technology experience in the financial services industry, he is regarded as a transformation agent who works with CIOs and Departmental Heads globally helping them navigate the rapidly evolving banking landscape.

Amit provides business solutions around digital transformation, innovation and driving cost efficiencies leveraging technology. His financial technology experience spans Open Banking/PSD2, transaction banking, real-time payments, cards – acquirers and issuers, PSPs, tokenization, blockchain, and related fields. From a technology perspective, his expertise lies in IT strategy, business architecture, large scale digital transformation programs, legacy modernization, RPA, data science, program governance and solution delivery.

Amit is a social media evangelist and a writer whose thought leadership has featured in various international media. Prior to Virtusa, Amit worked with Infosys Consulting as a principal consultant leading the Payment COE and worked for number of banks worldwide on large scale payments transformation programs.

Amit holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Mumbai University and a Masters in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, which is one of the top MBA Schools in India.