SVP, Chief Data and Analytics Officer
BOK Financial
Shanthi Pudota leads BOK Financial’s enterprise data and AI strategy. She has more than 30 years of experience in data management, governance, engineering and analytics, and has held leadership roles at Expedia Group, Discover Financial Services and Fannie Mae. Over her career, she has focused on helping organizations use data more effectively to support business goals.
As Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at BOK Financial, Shanthi is transforming how the bank approaches data, building the foundations that enable analytics and AI to scale responsibly while remaining aligned with business priorities and enterprise decision-making. She is leading a shift toward a data-first model, where data is treated as a shared enterprise asset that powers stronger customer insights, better decisions and disciplined growth.
AI capability doubles every 100 days. Data quality doesn’t. While banks race to deploy new models, they’re discovering the real bottleneck isn’t computing power or algorithms—it’s fragmented, low-quality data trapped in legacy systems. In this session, panelists tackle the unglamorous but critical foundation layer as they explore building centralized data platforms that work across silos, implement data lineage governance that satisfies both AI teams and auditors, and protect against “AI debt”—the compounding cost of models built on poorly documented, unverified data. Learn why nearly half of all banks cite data quality as their number one AI obstacle and the importance of treating information assets like the strategic resources they are.