Temenos expands product leadership with strategic appointments

By Puja Sharma

Temenos, a global BankTech firm, has strengthened its product leadership team with two strategic appointments. Rohit Chauhan joins as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Eugene Khmelevsky joins as Global Head of Architecture and Data. The two executives, based out of the US, report to Barb Morgan, Temenos’ Chief Product and Technology Officer, highlighting the company’s strategic investment in talent to accelerate growth and innovation.

Barb Morgan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, said: “I’m excited to welcome Rohit and Eugene, and look forward to their impact in delivering mission-critical technology solutions with strong business value.

They are seasoned technology and people leaders with deep banking expertise, a sharp market focus and a deep expertise in the US, which is are high-growth market for Temenos. Their track record in developing secure, data-driven banking solutions – and their experience leveraging AI, Gen AI and cloud technologies – will help us drive innovation that delivers long-term value and success for our customers.”

Rohit Chauhan will lead the development of Temenos’ overall technology strategy, innovation, research and development, driving co-innovation with customers and partners. He will enhance the flexibility of Temenos’ platform to advance Temenos’ best-of-suite core banking and modular solutions to address the evolving needs of financial institutions of all sizes.

Rohit Chauhan is an accomplished technology and banking executive with over 20 years of experience and an in-depth knowledge of the US and U.K. financial landscape from his leadership roles in large banks.

Rohit joins from JPMorgan, where he was Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Channels Technology. Rohit held several leadership positions at JPMorgan for over 12 years. During his tenure, he led the bank’s digital channels strategy, driving revenue growth in their payments business by modernising the core platform and making it cloud-native, along with deploying next-generation innovative experiences for customers across all channels globally. Prior to that, Rohit was Executive Director at Morgan Stanley for almost a decade, where he was leading the Clearing technology group for exchange-traded derivatives.

In this newly created role, as Global Head of Architecture and Data, Eugene Khmelevsky will ensure Temenos’ architecture and data foundation supports a modular, flexible product strategy. He brings over 25 years of experience in technology and banking software development, coupled with deep knowledge of the US financial landscape and established technology vendors. Eugene held various technology leadership roles in software development, digital and payments at FIS. As Chief Mobile Architect at JCPenney, he built and launched their next-generation digital store and mobile experience. Most recently, he led platform technology and development at a cloud-native startup for embedded finance.