#554 The Revolution Of Embedded Finance with Kenneth Kunin, SVP, Enterprise Technology Office at FIS
Today we’re talking to Kenneth Kunin, SVP, Enterprise Technology Office at FIS; and we discuss the revolution of embedded finance; how to up-skill a tech team; and why it’s best to vary your career with other disciplines.
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About Kenneth Kunin:
Kenneth Kunin is Senior Vice President and head of the Enterprise Technology Office (ETO) at FIS, reporting to the Chief Development Officer. He is responsible for enterprise software frameworks and shared platforms; enterprise architecture, standards and governance; and the solution architecture of FIS’ client and employee experience. Under Kenneth’s leadership, ETO develops components and toolkits used or embedded within FIS products for identity and access management, single sign-on, message integration, event management, and user interfaces for web, mobile and chat. Kenneth is also responsible for the company's global web sites, client portal and solution marketplace.
Prior to FIS' acquisition of SunGard in December 2015, Kenneth was Senior Vice President, Product Management in SunGard's CTO office, where he led the design and development of enterprise frameworks. Beginning in 2003, Kenneth led product management and development for SunGard's Common Services Architecture (CSA), an SOA framework that evolved through an open, federated development model across independent business units. The result of the CSA effort was the Infinity Application Framework, a platform for developing service-oriented, enterprise-scale applications. Kenneth was one of the early leaders of SunGard's Infinity initiative, and was responsible for the development and evolution of the Infinity Services Platform, a software registry and governance solution, since its inception in 2007. In 2014, Kenneth launched IdP Cloud, a SaaS identity management solution supporting multi-factor authentication and access management for SunGard's hosted applications.
Kenneth joined SunGard in 1999 through the acquisition of Exchange Market Systems, an online trading platform vendor, where he was Director of Marketing. He has since held positions in both marketing and product engineering. Kenneth has a marketing and finance degree from McGill University in Canada, and has over twenty years of experience developing, managing and marketing Internet-based technology for financial services.
About FIS Global:
FIS is at the heart of the commerce and financial transactions that power the world’s economy. We are passionate about helping businesses and communities thrive by advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, serving more than 20,000 clients and more than one million merchant locations in over 130 countries. For more information about FIS, visit http://www.fisglobal.com.