Mr. Thomson Thomas
Senior Vice President, Business Systems and Technology (CIO) – HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited
Full Name | Mr. Thomson Thomas |
Current Designation & Role | Senior Vice President, Business Systems and Technology (CIO) |
Current Company Name | HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited |
Past Company Names | Hutchison Max Telecom Ltd, Meganet, Crompton Greaves |
No of Years in the IT Industry | 18 years |
City you live in currently and since when | Mumbai, Since birth |
Native Town/ City you belong | Mumbai |
Mother Tongue | Malayalam |
Language you are proficient with | English |
Educational Details | BE ( Electronics), Masters in Marketing Management |
Awards and Recognitions Received CIO | 1.) CIO 100 2012 Honoree
2.) CIO 100 2012 Security Supremo Special Award 3.) CMO Asia Awards 2012 – Best CIO Awards (Leadership & Inovation-Leveraging IT for Business Performance) 4.) Best CIO’s in India 2012 from the Asian Congregation of Business and Stars of Industry Group 5.) Celent Model Insurer Asia Pacific 2012 (Service) 6.) UTV Bloomberg CXO Award – Most Innovative Use of Technology – Large Enterprises 7.) Celent Model Insurer Component 2011 (Business Process Management) 8.) CIO 100 2011 (CIO,com, CXO Media-IDG Enterprise) 9.) CIO 100 2011 (CIO.in, IDG Media) 10.) Financial Insights Innovation Awards Insurance Asia Pacific 2011 (IDC) 11.) Express Uptime Champion Awards 2011 12.) Information Week EDGE Winner |
Gadgets you love the most and why | Camera: Capture all the precious moments in life |
What makes you laugh | Witty Jokes |
Current book you are reading and what you love about it | Winning Way. Harsha Bhogle – How to win daily. |
Books you enjoyed reading the most | Balanced Scorecard,Alignment,Execution, The Real Business of IT |
Software company you admire and why | Infosys and Cognizant – Capability and Quality |
Hardware company your admire and why | Dell – Support framework leaves other way behind |
IT personality you admire and why | Sunil Rawlani – His capability to think out of the box and predict the future |
Your best moment in your career till date | When i received the first international award for HDFC Life, from Celent, this was HDFC Life’s first international award. |
Your best moment in personal life | When i purchased my first house |
Music You Like | Soft Rock |
Movies You Like | Action/ Sci fi |
Most Liked Travel Destination | Prague |
Why do you like your job | Using technology to meet the requirements of an ever changing fickle human mind which needs constant innovation and understanding of future disruptions.. |
Most favorite quote | “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit” |