Srini Chelian is an associate vice-president at TD Bank. Chelian is accountable for developing, evolving, and executing on the technology strategy for TD’s General Insurance business.

As a Technology Executive, Srini has successfully led multiple large transformations within the financial services industry across Europe and North America. Most recently, he led the transformation to scaled agile (across people, process, and technology) for one of the top 3 insurers in Canada and implemented the foundation elements to enable accelerated business value delivery. He has successfully led multiple mergers and acquisitions and one of the transformation programs led by him, was awarded the IT Outsourced Project of the Year by National Outsourcing Association, UK in 2013. His work has taken him around the globe in many capacities, primarily focused on creating a meaningful impact to financial services industry by leveraging technology as an enabler.

Chelian is a certified Agile, ITIL and Prince 2 practitioner with hands on experience in Information Technology delivery, sales, process consulting and transformation leveraging co-located and distributed teams. In 2007, Srini was the youngest to achieve Six Sigma Black Belt certification in Tata Consultancy Services and has since successfully led multiple business improvement / optimization engagements in the financial services industry. He is a trained trainer for Lean Six Sigma and Managing Diverse Teams in the modern-day workplaces.

Chelian’s doctoral research will investigate ‘the reasons for leadership’s failure to positively impact employee engagement in the modern-day workplaces at such large scale, despite the abundance of leadership books, blogs, classes, and leadership-development programs seeking to make leaders more effective?’ He will focus specifically on identifying leadership traits and/or behaviors that could positively influence employee engagement in modern-day workplaces. As it is a well-researched fact that an engaged workforce contributes to a net positive impact across customers, employees, and shareholders.

Srini holds a Master of Science in Technology Management from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada (2018) and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, India (2005).