VP and Head of ML and Generative AI, Financial Services
Capgemini
Rajesh is Global Head of ML and GenAI for Financial Services. He serves as Chief Architect and Gen AI Engineering Leader for the sector. He also served as the Expert in Reidence for Capgemini's widely followed Technovision 2025 publication. He is involved externally with Harvard Business Review as Advisory Council Member, and the Forbes Technology Coiuncil. He has a particular interest in AI startups, and involved with Capgemini Ventures as Executive Sponsor for portfolio companies and Foundation Capital as a mentor. Finally, he is a contributor to Evident AI, which is a well-known benchmarking firm for Banks on their AI capability and maturity.
This is his 7th year at the Firm and he has spent 30+ years of AI/ML and Analytics experience across domains like Risk, Distribution, Operations and Marketing at large Financial Institutions and Consulting firms. Prior to joining Capgemini, Rajesh was the SVP & Head – Data Sciences at Xceedance Consulting, where he established a multinational AI Practice from scratch. Rajesh has also served in senior roles, driving Enterprise-scale AI initiatives for Fortune/Global 500 Companies, at EXL/Inductis, USAA and Mu Sigma.
The AI revolution continues. Already a new breed of artificial intelligence has transformed chat, search, image creation and much more. And now agentic AI — systems capable of independent adaptive problem-solving and decision-making — are coming to financial services. Banks, fintechs, crypto providers and more are experimenting with building digital workforces that can increase efficiency and productivity, and even add some creativity to financial services. The industry is placing strong bets on the technology. As of 2024, the market value of agentic AI was $5.1 billion, and Capgemini projects its market value will exceed $47 billion by 2030. Hear from leading experts on how to build, where to deploy and what challenges might arise from utilizing the bots.