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|June 2025
Check out various IT initiatives that Dr. Puneet Kohli has driven over the years. She is now Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Liberty General Insurance:
Dr. Puneet Kohli brings nearly 30 years of industry experience, with her journey as a CIO beginning in 2005. That means she has been in CTO/CIO roles for approximately 19-20 years now. Over the past 2 years, she has focused on upskilling in areas like AI, cloud-native architectures, data strategy, cybersecurity, and SaaS transformation. She has done Course in Data Strategy and Architectures from the Great Lakes Institute and AWS Solution Architecture program. She also actively participates in technology leadership forums and industry events to stay updated on trends like Generative AI, Responsible AI, and Digital Transformation frameworks.
MAJOR PROJECTS
Throughout her career, she has led several large-scale, award-winning digital transformation projects:
SAP Data Archiving Project (Career Launcher, 2005): One of my earliest and most recognized projects. We implemented SAP data archiving without system downtime - this project earned me the CIO of the Year award in 2006 by DataQuest.
Reliance Energy Turnaround: I was instrumental in a 3-year transformation involving SAP core integration, GIS mapping, RS planning, and automated meter reading. We unified 127 grid stations across Maharashtra through fiber-optic integration and created a centralized command center to combat power theft.
This story is from the June 2025 edition of Banking Frontiers.
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