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Manager Interview
By
Suhas Rajaram
IST 614 - Management Principles for Information Professionals

My Interviewee Mr. Niti Badrinath is working as a Senior Vice President, Head of Mobile Banking and Payments at U.S.Bank, fifth largest bank in the United States based on the total assets and fourth largest in terms of branches. He completed his under graduation majoring in Mechanical Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras which is ranked among top technological schools in India. He then completed his Masters in Information Systems from Krannert School of Management – Purdue University. He has had a very illustrious career, working with major companies in the United States, holding highly responsible positions. He started off his career as Senior Manager with Ernst and Young, one of the Big Four consulting firms in the world. He then held the position of Principal with PricewaterHouse Coopers. He then went to become the Vice President of Gartner Group, another major consulting firm. Further he served as Associate Partner with IBM and then between 2006-2009, he served as Executive Vice President- Global Direct Banking with the Citi Group. He has been in his current position over 5 years working out of the San Francisco location.

Mr. Niti Badarinath is a very close family friend. It would not be an exaggeration if to say that he inspired me to pursue Masters in the field of Information Management. Though he is extremely busy and loaded with responsibilities, he was extremely kind to spare few minutes and provided me with valuable inputs, which has further bolstered my decision of pursuing Masters. I have never got a chance to meet him in person, but this meeting helped and it gave me a chance t...

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... interview gave me a lot of insight about management and made me realize the importance of communication. The kind of real time examples I got to hear from my interviewee was so inspiring and helped me in learning the diversity that exists in the market. And to deal perfectly with everything is very much necessary to be a good manager. Manager has to keep a lot of things in mind like the company budget, man power, time frame etc. And performing very well at the same time is possible only by developing all the managerial qualities. Observation and interaction with people teaches us a lot of things and a good manager should be able to differentiate between the good and bad. And continuous learning is the key to be a good manager. And I truly believe that the statement “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them” holds good.

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