Genesis Names Tej Sidhu President and Chief Product Officer and Expands Technology Leadership Team

WHY THIS MATTERS: The recent executive reorganization at Genesis Global represents a crucial operational realignment, directly addressing the escalating challenge of platform modernization across the capital markets. This is not a typical personnel announcement; it’s a strategic decision to divide the Chief Technology Officer function into three distinct leadership roles: product strategy, platform architecture, and operational engineering. This approach acknowledges the complexity inherent in selling low-code development technology to large financial institutions. By creating a dedicated focus on the Genesis Application Platform, particularly its AI governance and architectural roadmap, the firm is signaling that predictable development capacity and assured compliance are now commercial imperatives. The appointment of Tej Sidhu as President and CPO ensures the technical vision remains grounded in commercial execution and client value, allowing financial institutions to rapidly deploy high-performance software without the usual risk of proprietary vendor lock-in.

Genesis Global announced a series of executive leadership appointments designed to strengthen connections between product strategy, technology innovation and client delivery.

Tej Sidhu, formerly Chief Technology Officer, has been appointed President and Chief Product Officer. In addition, two long-standing Genesis leaders have been promoted to senior technology roles: Shahin Askari is now Chief Platform and Architecture Officer and Andrew Rendell is now Chief Engineering Officer.

As President and Chief Product Officer, Tej Sidhu will lead go-to-market functions and product strategy. He continues to report to the CEO and remains a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Before joining Genesis in 2022, Tej Sidhu was CTO and head of R&D at Calypso (now Nasdaq), a leader in trading, risk management and post-trade processing solutions for the capital markets, for 16 years.

“Everything we do is a combination of platform, solutions and expertise,” said James Harrison, Co-founder and CEO of Genesis Global. “This makes us unique in the industry – a product company that doesn’t limit clients with one-size-fits-all technology and a tailored solutions company that doesn’t burden clients with maintaining proprietary code. In his new role, Tej will bring our technical expertise and commercial execution together so that clients achieve maximum value with Genesis.”

“This role is about being closer to clients, tightening feedback loops and ensuring product strategy is grounded in client demand,” said Tej Sidhu, President and Chief Product Officer at Genesis Global. “The technical and business value delivered by our platform, solutions and services are unrivaled and when our relationships are rooted in this value it creates a win-win for clients and Genesis.”

As Chief Platform and Architecture Officer, Shahin Askari leads strategy and technology investments for the Genesis Application Platform, including architecture, tooling and AI capabilities. He becomes a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and reports to the CEO. Shahin Askari joined Genesis in 2023 as Senior Director of Platform Architecture.

“The Genesis Application Platform is the high-performance chassis for financial markets software,” said Shahin Askari, Chief Platform and Architecture Officer at Genesis Global. “It reduces total cost of ownership, boosts development capacity and accelerates innovation. Our framework provides inherent guardrails for AI to be a predicable and compliant actor in Genesis and helping clients take advantage of AI while maintaining governance and control is a major focus area for us.”

As Chief Engineering Officer, Andrew Rendell leads application delivery, quality, reliability, DevOps/SRE and is responsible for operational excellence in how Genesis builds and supports solutions for clients. He becomes a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and reports to the CEO. Andrew Rendell joined Genesis in 2021 and was VP of Platform Engineering prior to his new role.

“Genesis is engineered for financial markets and we have deployed innovative solutions addressing the most complex challenges in trading, operations, portfolio management, risk and compliance,” said Andrew Rendell, Chief Engineering Officer at Genesis Global. “Maintaining an agile delivery process and tailoring our offerings to clients’ exacting needs is what makes Genesis a unique partner for firms across financial markets.”

“We are optimizing how we run our technology, enabling Shahin to focus on vision and innovation and Andrew to focus on execution and delivery,” commented James Harrison. “This approach allows us to maximize client satisfaction through on-time and on-budget delivery and helps us keep clients on the leading edge of innovation as we make AI a bigger part of the Genesis platform and solutions.”

The Executive Committee at Genesis consists of James Harrison, CEO, Tej Sidhu, President and Chief Product Officer, Shahin Askari, Chief Platform and Architecture Officer, Andrew Rendell, Chief Engineering Officer, Carrie Mathieson, VP, People, and Fergal Magee, VP, Financial Planning & Analysis.

FF NEWS TAKE: This restructuring moves the needle by prioritizing specialized leadership over generalized management, which should resonate strongly with financial market clients wary of technology risk. By explicitly dividing ‘vision’ from ‘execution,’ Genesis aims to maximize innovation while assuring on-time delivery. We believe the key development to watch will be the specific features and tooling Shahin Askari’s team releases regarding the application of compliant AI, as this ability to integrate intelligence while maintaining regulatory guardrails is quickly becoming the competitive battleground for next-generation core systems.

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