Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli has joined Generali Central Life Insurance as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), bringing deep technology leadership and a proven track record in digital transformation, cloud, data, and engineering-led modernization across insurance and financial services.
In her new role, Dr. Kohli will own the technology vision and platform strategy for Generali Central Life Insurance, driving end-to-end digital customer journeys, engineering excellence, cloud adoption, and data-driven product innovation. She will focus on strengthening platform stability and reliability, embedding DevOps and Agile practices, and accelerating AI/automation initiatives to enhance customer experience and business outcomes.
Prior to this role, Dr. Kohli served in senior technology leadership positions across the insurance and financial sector, most recently as President — Information Technology & Data at Liberty General Insurance, where she led technology strategy, engineering enablement, cloud and DevOps adoption, vendor and budget governance, and upskilling programs. Earlier she served as CTO at Universal Sompo General Insurance and as CTO & CIO at Manappuram Finance, where she delivered major cloud, digital and analytics programs, incubated product and data teams, and drove large-scale modernization across applications and infrastructure.
Dr. Kohli’s strengths include strategic technology roadmaps, platform and cloud architecture (AWS), digital product delivery, DevOps and site reliability, data engineering and analytics, and building high-performing engineering organisations. Her leadership has consistently focused on aligning technology investments with measurable business impact — from faster time-to-market to improved operational resilience and customer satisfaction.
Generali Central Life Insurance gains an experienced technology leader whose blend of strategic vision and hands-on delivery will help the company scale its digital ambitions and strengthen its competitive edge in the Indian insurance market.