Niresh Rajah – DLA Piper

Niresh is an executive leader in Financial Services and Professional Services with 20 years of experience focused on Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Regulation, Automation, Innovation and Transformation. He has held executive positions in Data and Analytics at Danske Bank, Barclays Bank and Lloyds Banking Group. He is also a NED and Board Advisor, with non-executive roles at Sopra Steria and Data for Good. As an experienced Group Chief Data and AI Officer, he has led domains across Data and AI Strategy, Data Management, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Data Platform and Architecture, and Data Programmes. He has led major complex regulatory and data transformations at Board level including Brexit changes and GDPR working with regulators across Europe. Niresh was selected in the Top 100 Global Chief Data Officers for 2024 and 2023 and won the European Data Management Industry professional of the year award for 2023. He has been selected in the prestigious Data IQ awards Top 100 influencers for 2024, 2023 and 2022. Niresh’s is passionate for sharing his vast knowledge and experience through advancing the Data, Analytics and AI community, he is a co-chair of the UK chief data officer governing body for Evanta (a Gartner company), an advisory board member at A-Team Group (for both Data and Reg-Tech), Data IQ, CDO Magazine and Hot Topics Magazine. He has steered new innovation in the Data and AI space by being a mentor for start-up’s and scale-up’s through a number of mentor programmes at University of Oxford, Seedcamp and FinTech Alliance.