Our Leadership Team

Stephen spent his career in Financial Market Technology, working at Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Capital and, most recently, HSBC where he was a Managing Director, Chief Information Officer for Securities Services. His area of product concentration has been in Capital Markets with experience across the spectrum of Sales, Trading, Middle Office, Post Trade services. From a technology perspective, he is passionate about the power of technology to invoke meaningful change to areas like Financial Services, where inefficiencies are evident and there’s management willpower, but regulations and structures limit their ability to change. In his words he “joined Coherent to accelerate this change with our Financial Services and Implementation partners. I truly believe we have the necessary ingredients to turbo-charge Financial Services transformation.

Robert brings to Coherent more than twenty years of experience as a financial services technology leader, building fully digital, cloud-based experiences and platforms from the ground-up for startups and growing companies. Previous roles include chief information officer at Vault Insurance and chief technology officer at Singapore Life, where he crafted the insurance provider’s digital experience from its inception. Ross also has experience architecting and developing large scale applications, building, and managing global teams and expanding the capabilities of technology and operations at companies including Citi, Microsoft, Allied World Assurance Company, and Axis Capital. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northern Illinois where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Kate is the Chief People Officer at Coherent overseeing the firm’s business operations – including HR, Finance, Legal, PMO and Procurement.

Kate’s career in insurance started 10 years ago at QBE Insurance in Strategy & Technology. She has a diverse background working in senior leadership roles in Hong Kong and Sydney in Technology, HR, Communications and Operations. Her career has been marked by building high performing teams, delivering agile solutions to operational problems. Prior to joining Coherent, Kate was at QBE Global Head Office as Global Head of Business Management – People & Communications and at QBE Latin America and Asia as Head of IT Performance & Governance.

Kate has a passion for strategic planning, operational effectiveness and implementing governance to monitor achievement of strategic plans and operational performance.

Mukkul Dasgupta is the Chief Product Officer at Coherent. He is responsible for leading the Product Management related teams, and defining for product vision, strategy, roadmap and delivery.

Mukkul brings 20 years of experience leading global teams at top-tier technology and management consulting firms in APAC, USA, and Europe. Mukkul began his career at Microsoft building developer-focused platforms for consumer and business applications. Following an MBA at INSEAD, he joined Bain & Company advising executives in insurance, banking, technology, and consumer products industries. Mukkul has also led the Analytics team for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions in APAC, and most recently helped build new strategic alliances at SAP.

Mukkul is passionate about enabling companies to exponentially accelerate their digital initiatives by reimagining how business and IT teams work to build software. Coherent’s no-code platform empowers 750M+ Excel users globally to make changes to their company’s software/systems as quickly as updating their Excel files. This enables them to delight their end customers within days vs. months for traditional software development cycles that are bottlenecked by scarce availability of developers.

Andrew has run marketing, product marketing and PR at global public companies as well as fast growth startups including one unicorn, one double unicorn and an IPO. His passion is to connect customers and users with innovative technologies that improve work and life. Most recently, Andrew grew the global marketing team at Symphony, the largest connected community of financial services professionals as it scaled from $35M to $100M ARR and acquired two companies and reached 500,000 users. Prior, he headed the marketing team at FS-ISAC, a threat intelligence sharing organization, during its growth from 2000 to 7000 members across 44 countries and helped launch and spin out its high growth, award-winning Soltra SaaS division. Earlier, he ran product marketing for several emerging and high profile products at McAfee during sequential acquisitions culminating in the acquisition by Intel for $7.7B. He frequently advises startups and also provides pro bono marketing to women-owned businesses.

Sakura Kawakami is Coherent’s CEO, Japan, leading our business’s growth in the Japanese market and helping clients accelerate digital innovations and deliver superior customer experiences.

Having worked in both the Fortune 100 financial institutions and a HealthTech & InsurTech company, Sakura brings unique insight and experience to Coherent. Sakura has over 10 years of business management experience at Lehman Brothers, Nomura Securities, Citi, and over 5 years at MetLife Japan, where she held a position managing a product development team responsible for launching new insurance products in the market.

Before joining Coherent, Sakura was heading dacadoo Japan, a startup company based in Zurich, Switzerland, where she built a strong growth footprint. The company also received Plug and Play Japan International Startup Award in 2021. Sakura believes that Japan is at the crossroads of big digital transformation, and our innovative technology solutions will help clients ride the wave of change and become more successful.

Prior to joining Coherent, Rich led Presales at two enterprise software companies, managing geographically dispersed teams driving ARR, innovation, scale, and global expansion. Most recently, as Senior Vice President – Engineering, Rich was responsible for a multi-disciplinary team at Duck Creek Technologies consisting of product, engineering, and presales. Prior, he was Practice Head – Banking, Financial Services, & Insurance at Wipro.

He is a mission-driven, multifaceted, inventive, and results driven executive with more than 20 years of progressive experience designing, developing, and implementing applications in ever-evolving complex technology environments. A proud veteran, he served as a Nuclear Engineer in the U.S. Navy.

Stephen spent his career in Financial Market Technology, working at Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Capital and, most recently, HSBC where he was a Managing Director, Chief Information Officer for Securities Services. His area of product concentration has been in Capital Markets with experience across the spectrum of Sales, Trading, Middle Office, Post Trade services. From a technology perspective, he is passionate about the power of technology to invoke meaningful change to areas like Financial Services, where inefficiencies are evident and there’s management willpower, but regulations and structures limit their ability to change. In his words he “joined Coherent to accelerate this change with our Financial Services and Implementation partners. I truly believe we have the necessary ingredients to turbo-charge Financial Services transformation.

Robert brings to Coherent more than twenty years of experience as a financial services technology leader, building fully digital, cloud-based experiences and platforms from the ground-up for startups and growing companies. Previous roles include chief information officer at Vault Insurance and chief technology officer at Singapore Life, where he crafted the insurance provider’s digital experience from its inception. Ross also has experience architecting and developing large scale applications, building, and managing global teams and expanding the capabilities of technology and operations at companies including Citi, Microsoft, Allied World Assurance Company, and Axis Capital. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northern Illinois where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Kate is the Chief People Officer at Coherent overseeing the firm’s business operations – including HR, Finance, Legal, PMO and Procurement.

Kate’s career in insurance started 10 years ago at QBE Insurance in Strategy & Technology. She has a diverse background working in senior leadership roles in Hong Kong and Sydney in Technology, HR, Communications and Operations. Her career has been marked by building high performing teams, delivering agile solutions to operational problems. Prior to joining Coherent, Kate was at QBE Global Head Office as Global Head of Business Management – People & Communications and at QBE Latin America and Asia as Head of IT Performance & Governance.

Kate has a passion for strategic planning, operational effectiveness and implementing governance to monitor achievement of strategic plans and operational performance.

Mukkul Dasgupta is the Chief Product Officer at Coherent. He is responsible for leading the Product Management related teams, and defining for product vision, strategy, roadmap and delivery.

Mukkul brings 20 years of experience leading global teams at top-tier technology and management consulting firms in APAC, USA, and Europe. Mukkul began his career at Microsoft building developer-focused platforms for consumer and business applications. Following an MBA at INSEAD, he joined Bain & Company advising executives in insurance, banking, technology, and consumer products industries. Mukkul has also led the Analytics team for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions in APAC, and most recently helped build new strategic alliances at SAP.

Mukkul is passionate about enabling companies to exponentially accelerate their digital initiatives by reimagining how business and IT teams work to build software. Coherent’s no-code platform empowers 750M+ Excel users globally to make changes to their company’s software/systems as quickly as updating their Excel files. This enables them to delight their end customers within days vs. months for traditional software development cycles that are bottlenecked by scarce availability of developers.

Andrew has run marketing, product marketing and PR at global public companies as well as fast growth startups including one unicorn, one double unicorn and an IPO. His passion is to connect customers and users with innovative technologies that improve work and life. Most recently, Andrew grew the global marketing team at Symphony, the largest connected community of financial services professionals as it scaled from $35M to $100M ARR and acquired two companies and reached 500,000 users. Prior, he headed the marketing team at FS-ISAC, a threat intelligence sharing organization, during its growth from 2000 to 7000 members across 44 countries and helped launch and spin out its high growth, award-winning Soltra SaaS division. Earlier, he ran product marketing for several emerging and high profile products at McAfee during sequential acquisitions culminating in the acquisition by Intel for $7.7B. He frequently advises startups and also provides pro bono marketing to women-owned businesses.

Sakura Kawakami is Coherent’s CEO, Japan, leading our business’s growth in the Japanese market and helping clients accelerate digital innovations and deliver superior customer experiences.

Having worked in both the Fortune 100 financial institutions and a HealthTech & InsurTech company, Sakura brings unique insight and experience to Coherent. Sakura has over 10 years of business management experience at Lehman Brothers, Nomura Securities, Citi, and over 5 years at MetLife Japan, where she held a position managing a product development team responsible for launching new insurance products in the market.

Before joining Coherent, Sakura was heading dacadoo Japan, a startup company based in Zurich, Switzerland, where she built a strong growth footprint. The company also received Plug and Play Japan International Startup Award in 2021. Sakura believes that Japan is at the crossroads of big digital transformation, and our innovative technology solutions will help clients ride the wave of change and become more successful.

Prior to joining Coherent, Rich led Presales at two enterprise software companies, managing geographically dispersed teams driving ARR, innovation, scale, and global expansion. Most recently, as Senior Vice President – Engineering, Rich was responsible for a multi-disciplinary team at Duck Creek Technologies consisting of product, engineering, and presales. Prior, he was Practice Head – Banking, Financial Services, & Insurance at Wipro.

He is a mission-driven, multifaceted, inventive, and results driven executive with more than 20 years of progressive experience designing, developing, and implementing applications in ever-evolving complex technology environments. A proud veteran, he served as a Nuclear Engineer in the U.S. Navy.