11 KiB
JPMC Commercial Card Team — Research
Last Updated: April 28, 2026
Context: IBM engagement — data platform / data virtualization
Team Location: Chicago (primary hub)
Key Stakeholders (Original Attendee List)
Christopher Claus — Managing Director, B2B Payments
- Title: Managing Director, Head of Commercial Card Transformation
- Division: J.P. Morgan Payments, CIB
- Location: Chicago, IL
- LinkedIn: christopherwclaus
- In role since: September 2024
Background: Chris is a Managing Director (senior executive level at JPMC) and currently Head of Commercial Card Transformation within J.P. Morgan Payments, focused on modernization and business intelligence. Previously, he led J.P. Morgan's industry-leading Virtual Card business. He is a recognized industry speaker — presented at the CPI Middle Market Summit 2025 as Managing Director, Payments. He is also a named inventor on patents related to integrated pay-on-demand and virtual card payment systems (US Patent Application US20200193415A1).
Meeting relevance: Executive sponsor / decision-maker. Focus on modernization and BI aligns directly with data virtualization. Cares about strategic impact, ROI, and how a data platform accelerates commercial card transformation.
Feroze Kuraishi — Senior Executive Director, Principal Architect
- Title: Senior Executive Director, Technology Leader & Senior Principal Architect — Commerce and Pre-Paid Card Payments
- Division: CIB Technology
- Location: Greater Chicago Area
- LinkedIn: feroze-kuraishi-10aa0a8
- Note: Name spelled "Feroze" (not "Ferzoe")
Background: Feroze is a senior technology leader and principal architect focused on commerce and pre-paid card payment systems. 500+ LinkedIn connections. His role as Senior Principal Architect makes him one of the most senior technical architects in this space — responsible for overall technology vision and architecture for commerce and pre-paid card payment platforms.
Meeting relevance: Most senior technical authority. Evaluates from enterprise architecture perspective — how virtualization fits into broader JPMC payments tech strategy, scalability, security, alignment with architectural standards. His buy-in is critical for technical decisions.
Sonia Mahajan — Executive Director, Payments Technology
- Title: Executive Director, Software Engineering — Payments Technology
- Division: CIB Technology
- Location: Chicago, IL
- LinkedIn: sonia-mahajan-001
- Education: Delhi University
- Experience: 24+ years designing, coding, and delivering software
Background: Sonia is a motivated people leader with deep hands-on engineering background. She leads engineering teams building and maintaining the technology stack for JPMorgan's payments platforms, including commercial card technology infrastructure.
Meeting relevance: Senior technology leader who evaluates technical architecture, integration patterns, and engineering feasibility. Her team would implement/integrate any new data platform capabilities.
Andrew Corboy — VP, Data Product Owner
- Title: Vice President, Data Product Owner — Commercial Card Data Management
- Division: CIB Treasury Services
- Location: Greater Chicago Area
- LinkedIn: andrew-corboy-3aa7584
Background: Andrew is a VP-level data product owner responsible for commercial card data management within JPMorgan's CIB Treasury Services. He owns data domains, governance, and quality standards for commercial card datasets.
Meeting relevance: Key stakeholder — primary business-side data owner whose domains would be surfaced/federated through a data platform. Cares about data accessibility, governance, lineage, and how virtualization improves access to commercial card data.
Ujwal K. Moturu — VP, Data Platform Lead
- Title: Vice President, Data Platform Lead
- Division: CIB Technology
- Location: Naperville, IL (Greater Chicago Area)
- LinkedIn: ujwal-k-moturu-26b60219
- Note: First name is "Ujwal" (not "Ujaw")
Background: Ujwal is a VP in CIB Technology. Given role title and meeting context, he works in data engineering/data platform capacity supporting commercial card or payments platform.
Meeting relevance: Hands-on technical role — data engineering, platform development. Evaluates technical fit of data virtualization within existing JPMC technology stack.
Kasthurirengan Jaganathan — Lead Solutions Architect
- Title: Architect / Developer Lead (also listed as Solutions Architect)
- Division: CIB Technology
- Location: Greater Chicago Area
- LinkedIn: kasthurirengan-jaganathan-ba44bb4
Background: Solutions Architect and developer lead at JPMC in CIB Technology. Maintains low public profile (16 LinkedIn connections).
Meeting relevance: Hands-on technical architect evaluating data virtualization from systems design perspective — integration patterns, API design, performance, data modeling, fit into existing commercial card architecture. Expect detailed technical questions.
Srikanth Namuduru — Senior Manager, SW Engineering
- Title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
- Division: CIB Technology (India-based)
- Location: Hyderabad, India
- LinkedIn: srikanthnam
- Prior: Lead Data Engineer at Nike (2021–2025)
- At JPMC: 2025–present
Background: Experienced data engineering professional. Recently joined JPMC as Senior Manager. Likely leads offshore engineering team supporting CIB payments/commercial card technology stack.
Meeting relevance: Data engineering leader who manages implementation team. May attend remotely. Relevant for evaluating from implementation and operations standpoint.
Additional Team Members (April 2026 Update)
David Montee — Sr. Executive Director
- Limited public information found
- No LinkedIn profile surfaced in search
Kamal Jha — VP Software Engineering, Sr. Manager - Payments Platform & Architecture
- LinkedIn: kamal-jha-32057214
- Location: Greater Chicago Area / Jersey City
- Education: Bharati Vidyapeeth
- Focus: Multi-cloud platform design for databases and applications
Likely priorities: Cloud architecture, database platforms, infrastructure modernization
Hemabhushanareddy Kalappareddigari — Lead Architect, Commercial Card & Payment Platforms
- At JPMC: Since 2023
- Prior: Technical Architect at Motorola Solutions (2007–2023), Principal Engineer (1997–2007)
Likely priorities: Platform architecture, card systems, payments infrastructure
Ravi Venkatraman — Executive Director
- LinkedIn: ravi-venkatraman-5258b211
- Location: Tampa, FL
- Tenure: VP at J.P. Morgan from Aug 1995 to Jan 2022 (26+ years), promoted to ED in 2022
Note: Long-tenured — deep institutional knowledge. Likely focused on process, compliance, institutional continuity.
Ranjit Deshmukh — VP, Commercial Card
- LinkedIn: ranjit-deshmukh-2473995b
- Location: Chicago
- Role started: January 2025
Cherry-Ann Cruz — VP, Commercial Card - Business Intelligence
- LinkedIn: chguerrero
- Location: Chicago
- Role started: March 2026 (recent)
- Prior: 8 years at Synchrony
Focus: Digital leadership, product and analytics, BI dashboards
Andy Wilson — VP, Business Analysis Manager
- LinkedIn: andy-the-analyst
- Location: Greater Chicago Area
- Tenure: At JPMorgan Chase since Aug 2012 (13+ years)
- Prior: Business Analyst at Dish Network
Focus: Business intelligence, reporting, BI tooling
Summary Table
| Person | Level | Role Type | Key Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Claus | MD | Business Executive | Commercial card transformation, BI, strategy |
| Feroze Kuraishi | Sr ED | Senior Architect | Enterprise architecture, commerce & pre-paid platforms |
| Sonia Mahajan | ED | Tech Leadership | Payments technology, engineering teams |
| Andrew Corboy | VP | Data Product Owner | Commercial card data ownership & governance |
| Ujwal Moturu | VP | Data Platform Lead | Data platforms, data engineering, pipelines |
| Kasthurirengan Jaganathan | — | Architect/Dev Lead | Solutions architecture, hands-on technical design |
| Srikanth Namuduru | Sr Mgr | SW Engineering | Data engineering, implementation (India-based) |
| Kamal Jha | VP | SW Engineering | Multi-cloud architecture, databases |
| Hemabhushanareddy K. | — | Lead Architect | Platform architecture, card systems |
| Ravi Venkatraman | ED | Executive | Institutional knowledge, compliance (Tampa) |
| Ranjit Deshmukh | VP | Commercial Card | Card operations |
| Cherry-Ann Cruz | VP | BI | Analytics, dashboards |
| Andy Wilson | VP | Business Analysis | BI, reporting |
| David Montee | Sr ED | Executive | Leadership (limited info) |
Key Observations
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Chicago is the hub — Most of this team is based in Chicago, JPMC's Commercial Card center of operations.
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Tech + Business mix — Strong engineering leadership (Sonia, Feroze, Kamal, Hemabhushanareddy) plus business/analytics (Cherry-Ann, Andy, Andrew, Ujwal).
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Transformation focus — Christopher Claus's role as "Head of Commercial Card Transformation" signals active modernization initiatives.
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Data-heavy investment — Multiple data-focused roles (Data Platform Lead, Data Product Owner, Business Intelligence) indicate heavy investment in data capabilities.
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Deep tenure — Ravi Venkatraman (26+ years), Andy Wilson (13+ years) provide institutional stability and domain knowledge.
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Meeting dynamics — Well-rounded group spanning business strategy (Claus), enterprise architecture (Kuraishi), technology leadership (Mahajan), data ownership (Corboy), and hands-on engineering. Data virtualization pitch should address both strategic business value and detailed technical architecture.
Sources: LinkedIn profiles, RocketReach, CPI Middle Market Summit 2025 speaker list
Original research: March 10, 2026 | Updated: April 28, 2026