Information technology professionals in Financial technology
Seven of these fintech IT leaders hold current Fiserv titles, from Director of IT up to Vice President Information Technology, and the others sit at FIS, at SunGard (now part of FIS) and, until 2026, at Candescent as global CIO. Their titles cover corporate systems and data, technology services, and cloud transformation, which makes them useful when a payments or banking platform provider is replacing a core internal system or moving hosted services to the cloud.
Professionals to explore
Ganesh Krishna Iyer
LinkedInExperience: Director of Information Technology · Fiserv
Director of Information Technology at Fiserv since 2023, Ganesh Krishna Iyer was a Senior Project Manager at Fiserv (2020–2023) and Associate Manager at Accenture (2014–2020). Ganesh describes a background across banking, mortgage, insurance and payments, with a recent focus on payments, which makes Ganesh a fit for questions on delivering payments systems projects inside a large fintech company.
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Kevin Comber
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Technology Services · Fiserv
Kevin Comber was Director of Information Technology at Fiserv (2008–2023) and has been Sr. Director of Technology Services there since 2023; earlier titles include Data Center Manager at SunGard Data Systems (1998–2001). Kevin describes delivering fintech in payments, core, online and mobile banking through cloud and hosted environments, and infrastructure design for billion dollar institutions. Kevin fits questions on hosting and infrastructure for bank clients.
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Kim Knoch
LinkedInExperience: Director of IT · SunGard - now part of FIS
Kim Knoch is Director of IT at SunGard - now part of FIS, dated from 2003, and goes by FIS - Senior Systems Manager on LinkedIn. Kim's profile describes a Director of IT – Global Operations role from August 2010 as service owner for global enterprise solutions. Kim fits questions on owning global enterprise solutions as a service owner inside a fintech company.
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Krishna M Polineni
LinkedInExperience: Former Sr. Director - Information Technology. Fintech Digital and Cloud transformation · Fiserv
Krishna M Polineni holds the title Sr. Director - Information Technology. Fintech Digital and Cloud transformation at Fiserv, dated from 2022, and was Software Architect at Fiserv (2012–2022). Krishna's earlier SAP work includes Sr. SAP Netweaver Administrator(Consulting) at KMPG/Fiserv (2010–2012) and SAP Basis Manager (2005–2008) and SAP Technical portfolio manager (2008–2009) at BT Group. Krishna is a fit for questions on cloud transformation and SAP architecture at a fintech provider.
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Lopamudra Pattnaik
LinkedInExperience: Director, Corporate Systems and Data · FIS
At FIS, Lopamudra Pattnaik has been Director, Corporate Systems and Data since 2025, after holding the same title at Dragonfly Financial Technologies (2022–2025). Lopamudra also held reporting and analytics director titles at Pango (2020–2022) and Aura (2019–2021) and was Director, Business Process and Reporting at Intersections Inc. (2016–2019). That mix suits questions on the corporate systems and reporting data a fintech company relies on internally.
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Matthew McGovern
LinkedInExperience: Former Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) · Candescent
Matthew McGovern was Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Candescent (2024–2026) and has been Managing Partner at Enable Technology Services, LLC and Executive Partner at Gartner since 2026. Earlier titles are Senior Vice President & Divisional CTO at Global Payments Inc. (2023–2024) and Senior Vice President, Global Infrastructure Services & Operations at EVO Payments, Inc. (2020–2023). In Matthew's own words, the work includes stabilizing platforms serving 1,300 financial institutions, a fit for questions on platform recovery and carve-outs.
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Ricky Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Director of IT · Fiserv
Ricky Johnson is Director of IT at Fiserv since 2020 and was Senior Technical Lead at Ameritas (2019–2020). At First Data Corporation, Ricky was Senior Application Architect (2001–2006), Manager (2006–2010) and IT Director (2010–2018). Ricky can speak to IT leadership at a payments processor across the First Data and Fiserv years.
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Ryan McGrail
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Information Technology · Fiserv
Ryan McGrail has been Vice President Information Technology at Fiserv since 2019, and was Director IT (2016–2019) and Application Architect (2004–2011) at First Data Corporation. Ryan describes leading enterprise platforms that generate more than $500M in annual revenue and overseeing an 80+ member technology organization. That gives Ryan grounding for questions on running revenue-bearing platforms in a highly regulated setting.
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Steve Gillam, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Information Technology · Fiserv
With the title Vice President Information Technology at both Fiserv (since 2020) and Equifax (2016–2020), Steve Gillam, MBA spent 1996–2016 at Accenture as Senior Program Manager IT Service Delivery Manager Consultant, Global IT Director and Sr. Director of Technology Solutions. Steve describes leading global IT organizations across financial services, fintech and professional services, a fit for questions on IT service delivery across several regulated companies.
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Choose the right perspective
For a company-wide technology decision, start with Matthew McGovern, the former global CIO, or one of the two Fiserv vice presidents, Ryan McGrail and Steve Gillam. Lopamudra Pattnaik fits questions on corporate systems and reporting data, Krishna M Polineni on cloud transformation and SAP, and Kevin Comber on hosted delivery of core and online banking.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01When a payments or core banking platform serves many financial institution clients, how do you schedule upgrades and cutovers without disrupting them?
- 02How do you decide which internal systems stay on-premises and which move to the cloud at a fintech provider?
- 03After an acquisition or merger of two fintech platforms, how do you decide which internal systems and data stores survive?
About this directory
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