Swatee brings deep expertise in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, & Blockchain while leading various Technology verticals in her career as their CIO. She has a proven track record in leading strategy, design, and tech delivery of revenue generating customer-centric, AI-powered applications at major global firms.

In her most recent role as the CIO of Enterprise Data Platforms at Barclays, she was responsible for strategy, transformation and technical delivery of their next-gen technology and data capabilities in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, including their E2E Machine Learning Platform and Realtime Streaming Platform. Prior, she was Head of Big Data Platform Engineering and Distinguished Architect at American Express, where she spent 8+ years, and led the development of global platforms and leading-edge applications including multi-petabyte Big Data and AI at PwC and McKinsey.

Swatee has tremendous followership in the industry and is known for her thought leadership, innovation and developing the best talent. She is known for driving innovation and recruiting/retaining the best talent. She is collaborative with a natural ability to influence without organizational authority. She holds a PhD from Duke University with focus on Machine Learning. She is credited with multiple patents in Data, AI and Cloud, and is the author of several industry publications.

At TIAA, Swatee has been tasked to elevate our Enterprise Data and AI strategy and impact across business lines, with focus on developing next-gen data management, AI and Machine Learning platforms, data science capabilities, data quality and governance and AI-powered differentiating assets. Swatee also leads the Client Tech Labs which looks to co-innovate with Clients using emerging tech to build next gen products. As CIO for Corporate Tech she is tasked with shared services to drive efficiencies and lower costs.