Vijay Dhayaleeswaran, Chair

Vijay Dhayaleeswaran has 20 years of experience in the IT industry as an experienced Technology & domain executive and thought leader providing Consulting services to Financial Services clients as well as managing and governing large portfolios of projects, programs and applications. He is a trusted advisor to provide solutions, create roadmaps for organizational strategic initiatives. Vijay has led multiple large transformation initiatives and programs, has been accountable for multiple client engagements as a Client Partner owning relationships, accounts’ P&L management, Delivery Oversight, Project Portfolio Management, Business development and team management.

Currently at Canada Life, Vijay is an Asst. Vice President leading Portfolio Management and Governance for one of the Technology Business Units. In this role, he is responsible for Project & Portfolio processes, tools, methodologies, reporting, PMO, Project & Portfolio delivery, Financial Management, Resource Management, Contract Management, Strategy & Planning for Integrated Technology delivery, IT Risk & Compliance, Communications.

Prior to that, he has played various progressive roles leading up to Client Partner & Senior Technology Executive on the Consulting side with Cognizant, Accenture & Wipro providing Technology, Domain and Management consulting services primarily for Insurance clients where he understands Industry leaders’ IT & Business objectives, roadmap, initiatives, pain points, bringing new ideas, innovative concepts and be the trusted partner for their technology and consulting service needs. Vijay is globally experienced with extensive experience in various engagement & delivery models having led teams of over 600 members across various geographies. He has won and led multiple large scale Application development, Maintenance, Testing, Data, Digital transformation, Application rationalization/optimization and modernization projects and programs, and spend optimizations initiatives.

Vijay is a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science graduate from India and holds PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist, ALMI, ACS-Life, ACS-Reinsurance Certifications. He lives in GTA with his wife and 2 boys. Vijay actively mentors youth as well as experienced professionals in their careers. He is an amateur Golfer and a pro-am Photographer.