Varun Krishna has joined OCBC Bank as Executive Director, Digital Marketing, Consumer Financial Services (CFS) in Singapore.
Varun is a digital growth and marketing transformation leader who has spent over two decades working at the intersection of banking, customer engagement, MarTech, and applied AI. His career has been defined by translating technology into measurable business outcomes, whether through stronger customer acquisition, deeper engagement, better personalization, or more scalable execution across complex, regulated organizations.
Most recently, he served as Head of Digital Marketing for Retail Banking at VPBank in Vietnam, where he led the bank’s retail digital marketing efforts and spearheaded the award-winning Apple Pay launch campaign.
His career spans senior marketing and growth leadership roles across some of Asia’s most prominent financial institutions, including DBS Bank and YES BANK in India. Across these organizations, he has led consumer banking marketing functions, scaled digital banking platforms, and built high-performing teams across acquisition, engagement, and MarTech.
Varun brings broad experience across banking, asset management, and insurance, with earlier roles at IDFC Asset Management Company Limited and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited.
Varun holds a Master’s in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham, UK.