Uday Odedra

Uday Odedra is Executive Vice President and Head of India and the Philippines Region at Wells Fargo & Company. He leads the bank’s operations across the region, executing its strategy for building transformative product, processing, data, and digital capabilities in India, and overseeing a large scale technology and operations footprint across the bank’s India and Philippines centres.

A seasoned executive with over 25 years in the global financial services sector, Uday joined Wells Fargo from UBS AG. At UBS AG, he held senior leadership roles including CEO of UBS India and CIO for Asia, driving collaboration across technology, operations, and business, and leading global teams in digital, technology, and philanthropy within UBS Investment Banking and Services. Prior to UBS, he held positions at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management and Electronic Data Systems.

Uday has been based in India for the last decade, where he has built a reputation for standing up and scaling delivery organisations from the ground up. He previously established a new delivery location from scratch into a differentiated talent hub spanning three cities and over 5,000 engineers. This drove next generation technology delivery for investing and financial services. Throughout his career, he has focused on developing talent and building high performing teams across the globe. This is an approach that continues to inform his leadership of large, distributed technology organisations in his current role.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in computing information systems from Birmingham City University in the U.K. and is based in Bangalore.