Prem Natarajan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Executive Vice President, Chief Enterprise AI Officer and Chief Scientist at Capital One, leading AI/ML, Enterprise Data, Risk Tech, Finance Tech, and People Tech organizations.
Led the technical transformation at Amazon Alexa to deep learning and transformer architectures, initiating and driving the development of AlexaTM, Amazon's first published large language model.
Grew from individual contributor to General Manager of the Speech, Language and Multimedia business unit at Raytheon BBN Technologies, transforming it into the company's most profitable division by shifting to product licensing.
Serves on the Board of Directors of the Partnership on AI, the Board of Visitors at Columbia Engineering, the Advisory Board at UVA's School of Data Science, and the Technology Advisory Council at Aptiv.
A Fellow of IEEE.
Active as a startup investor.

Biography

Prem Natarajan serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Enterprise AI Officer, and Chief Scientist at Capital One. In this role, he leads a global organization encompassing AI/ML, Enterprise Data, Risk Tech, Finance Tech, and People Tech. His work focuses on building platforms that enable data-driven decision-making across the enterprise and delivering customer-facing AI capabilities at scale, with a philosophy of building businesses, not just systems.