JP RANGASWAMI

Global Chief Information Officer, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

JP Rangaswami has been Global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein since early 2001. He read Economics and Statistics at St Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specialising in developmental economics. Originally a financial journalist, he has worked with technology in finance since 1980 with a number of large multinationals before joining DrKW in 1997.

He was originally responsible for managing the Euro, Minimum Requirements and Year 2000 programmes globally, and was later appointed CEO of the in-house technology incubator. Three such ventures were spun off in 2001, and he continues to chair Yolus (a risk management infrastructure play) and openadaptor (the DrKW-sponsored contribution to the opensource community), amongst others.

He is an Advisory Board member of CAL-IT and a Charter Member of TiE UK, along with memberships of the IoD, the ACM and the IEEE. He is a regular speaker at industry events, particularly on innovation and opensource.

He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, and CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004. He works closely with start-ups and early-stage companies, seeking to use technology as a key differentiator in capital markets.

He is passionate about his family (he has a wife and three children) ; active and committed to his local church; is hopelessly mired in late 60s-early 70s music; and reads/collects books like they are going out of style.