CheckAlt Hires Ram Bajaj as Chief Information Officer


CheckAlt has hired Ram Bajaj to serve as the company’s Chief Information Officer and lead IT strategic visioning and business transformation for the entire organization from CheckAlt’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Bajaj, who has more than 25 years of industry experience as a technology executive in the financial services industry, is taking a holistic approach to enhancing existing and creating new IT business solutions at CheckAlt. His experience includes 17 years with AIG managing global technology teams to execute on roadmaps, technical architectures, and IT solutions he designed.

“I’m very pleased to have Ram join the CheckAlt family,” Shai Stern, Co-Chairman and CEO of CheckAlt, expressed. “Ram’s expertise in IT infrastructure, hardware, and software solutions for the finance industry, coupled with his ability to successfully manage both onshore and offshore development teams, makes him a huge asset to our organization and to the financial institutions and businesses we serve.”

Prior to joining CheckAlt, Bajaj served for three years as Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer for insurance software and consulting firm Perr&Knight. In his tenure with the firm, Bajaj created a technology roadmap, attained SOC 2 Type 2 data security compliance for certain products, led several cloud migrations, and significantly reduced defects and incidents with IT projects and overall technology operations.

At AIG, Bajaj worked his way up from Senior Programmer, a role that involved managing programmers and technical resources, to Vice President, Account Delivery Executive, a role requiring Bajaj to foster and maintain partnerships with C-level executives at AIG in creating and executing strategic plans including technological roadmaps to support business goals.

Bajaj got his start as a software developer for Manitoba Hydro, a large utility company for which he developed a web application that interfaced with digital meters to measure electricity consumption and assist customers in controlling costs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Manitoba and professional certifications in project management and AWS architecture.

To interview Ram Bajaj, please contact CheckAlt’s Managing Director of Communications Tiffany Rider at trider@checkalt.com. 

About CheckAlt  

In the past 10 years, CheckAlt has become the leading provider of check payment processing solutions for hundreds of financial institutions across the country. As both payment agnostic and demographic agnostic, CheckAlt is uniquely positioned for payments convergence. It has been our focus to process check payments while also eliminating paper from the system with robust electronic payment APIs. CheckAlt’s solutions include lockbox processing across a nationwide hub-and-spoke network of processing sites, consolidated item processing, integrated treasury solutions, and mobile capture services. CheckAlt is headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif.

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