Akhilesh Vishwakarma is a 24-year IT veteran with a focus on consulting and architecture, particularly in the banking, financial services, insurance, and retail industries. With a passion for developing strategic opportunities and solving business problems enabled through technology, Vishwakarma has held leadership roles at some of Australia's leading financial institutions, including CBA, AMP, TAL Australia, IAG, and Suncorp Group. He has also held positions at Allianz, QBE Insurance, and Westpac.

Vishwakarma's experience covers everything from end-user support to consulting and integration development. Additionally, he has mature stakeholder management skills and experience across management, business, IT, partners, and suppliers, making him a go-to partner for a wide range of stakeholders. He has also earned an executive program in general management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Vishwakarma's specialties lie in architecture, consulting, IT strategy, digital transformation, capability review, strategic opportunity development, and roadmap development. His skills make him well suited to enterprise and solution architecture, M&A activities, technology assessment, governance, agile methodologies, and facilitation.