Meet the Speakers
The voices driving conversations that matter in hiring and beyond.
The voices driving conversations that matter in hiring and beyond.
Pankaj Rai is the Group Chief Data Analytics Officer at Aditya Birla Group, based out of Bengaluru. He has a professional experience of 30 years in strategy, consulting, and financial services. He leads the Group’s strategy on Analytics and Data Science enabling its varied businesses, ranging from Cement, Chemicals, Metals to Fashion Retail & Financial Services to enhance their decision-making capabilities using data science. He also enables the analytics maturity journey of the business teams by creating digital products and platforms that can be scaled across the group and beyond.
Prior to this Pankaj worked as the Senior Vice President, Strategy at Wells Fargo where his key initiatives included establishing the digital capabilities to enable the Bank’s digital channels and building an internal consulting team to drive global programs. He also worked as the Director of Analytics at Dell where he led a team in business research, data analysis, and statistical modelling across domains like marketing, strategy, pricing, online, supply chain and financial services. He was also the Head, Program Management Office at Standard Chartered Bank in their Singapore regional office wherein he helped grow their shared service centres in India and Malaysia.
Pankaj has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. In his free time, Pankaj enjoys long distance running, cycling, badminton and meeting people in his favourite Café in Bengaluru.