Berkadia’s CIO Damu Bashyam on Driving Innovation in the CRE Industry | Technovation 791

Damu Bashyam, EVP and Chief Information & Innovation Officer of Berkadia, sits down with our host Peter High to discuss the various ways he approaches innovation to drive growth, efficiency, and improvements to the digital customer experience. Damu explains the idea behind Berkadia's Startup Accelerator program BeEngaged and its role in keeping his team on top of emerging trends, building innovative solutions, and integrating new platforms like Blue Suit AI into its ecosystem. Similarly, Damu shares his experience leading the redIQ software business at the company and the way the cloud-based platform leverages AI/ML to help clients visualize data. He also talks about balancing the priorities of both IT and the broader business, building a data strategy, and driving internal technology adoption. Finally, Damu reflects on the three C’s to his career success and looks ahead at the trends in technology that he is excited about.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:09 Overview of Berkadia's Business
0:02:47 Damu's Purview as Chief Information & Innovation Officer
0:04:29 Defining Innovation & Its Role at Berkadia
0:08:13 'Startup Accelerator' at Berkadia and the Direction Given to Its Team
0:10:47 Leading the RedIQ Software Business
0:13:22 Damu's Team Structure
0:15:39 Balancing Technology Priorities and Business Priorities
0:18:21 Curating the Digital Customer Experience
0:21:21 Data Strategy at Berkadia
0:23:59 Driving Technology Adoption at Berkadia
0:27:05 Tech Trends
0:29:30 Damu's Keys to Success
0:32:49 Outro

An audio-only version of this interview is available as episode 791 of Metis Strategy’s podcast, #Technovation with Peter High. Learn more at http://bit.ly/Technovation-791.

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