Milind Naphade

Milind Naphade, SVP, Technology, leads the AI Foundations team at Capital One. In this capacity, Milind partners with product, tech, and business leaders to advance AI efforts, such as generative and agentic AI, at Capital One.

Since joining Capital One, a significant part of his focus has been building a diverse and world-class AI Foundations organization to solve some of the most challenging AI problems in the Financial Services industry.

Prior to joining Capital One, Milind was the Chief Technology Officer of Metropolis at NVIDIA where he led the technology and innovation strategy and execution for NVIDIA’s Metropolis platform and product offerings. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Milind held executive and leadership roles at Cisco and IBM Research. As the Director of the cognitive systems organization at Cisco, he built the organization that focused on machine learning, natural language processing and AI. In his 14 years at IBM Research, Milind led several company-wide strategic AI initiatives in multimedia analytics and smarter planet solutions.

Over the past three decades, Milind’s work in Vision AI, machine learning, and Smarter Cities has resulted in 15 AI products and applications, 140 publications and patents, five industry awards, nine corporate awards, and four best paper/thesis awards.

Milind holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Instrumentation and Control from the College of Engineering Pune, and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

To learn more about Milind, visit the Capital One Tech blog.