Ravi Battula

Ravi Battula has over 20 years of experience in the field of technology and payments. Ravi is currently serving as the Head of Merchant Acquiring Solutions at Wibmo, a PayU/Naspers company. Prior to this, Ravi worked at Barclays as the Head of Digital Payments, where they played a key role in building a next-generation Digital Payments Hub platform. Ravi also implemented PSD2 Open-banking and ISO20022 standards consistently across channels. Before joining Barclays, Ravi held the position of Director of Payments Platform at Visa, where they led the India Data Localization regulatory mandate and built Omni-channel solutions. Ravi has also worked at Bank of America as the VP of Consumer Banking Technology and as AVP of eCommerce - Payments Technology. Ravi has experience in business development, delivery, and building partnerships, and they have worked with companies like Polaris Financial Technology Limited and Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. Ravi started their career as a Software Engineer at Encodex Technologies.

Ravi Battula's education history includes a post-graduate diploma in Finance from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, obtained in 2002. Prior to that, they completed a bachelor's degree in Engineering (BE) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology between 1994 and 1998. Ravi also attended Kendriya Vidyalaya, although specific dates and degrees are not available for this educational experience.

In addition to their formal education, Ravi Battula has obtained several certifications. Ravi is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, obtained through Amazon Web Services (AWS) in September 2020. In December 2016, they completed the Business Analytics - Science of Data Driven Decision Making program from IIM Bangalore - Executive Programmes. Ravi is also a Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC), certified by Scaled Agile, Inc., in August 2015. While they hold a certification as a Scrum Master, the institution and details of obtaining it are not provided. Furthermore, Ravi has not specified the obtained month and year for their Six Sigma Green Belt certification, which was obtained from Bank Of America.