Apoorv Saxena
Global Head of AI (Technology), Managing Director
- JPMorgan Chase & Co
Apoorv Saxena joins JPMorgan Chase & Co. as the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence Technology for Asset & Wealth Management and Global Head of Firmwide Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Services. He has 19+ years of software engineering, strategy & management consulting, product management leadership, and entrepreneurial experience in the technology industry.
Apoorv comes to the firm from Google where he spent the past 6 years. He was the product & business lead for Google Cloud AI Solutions managing six product lines. He was responsible for product vision, growth, and revenue, user experience & resource planning. Apoorv led the Google Apps marketplace and platform responsible for 2 generations of Apps intelligence platform and integrations. He launched three industry-leading Cloud AI products as well as launched and grew Cloud AutoML, Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Translation API products. Apoorv set the vision, strategy and got funding for two stealth mode 2 Cloud AI solutions. As the lead for Google Apps marketplace, he redesigned the end to end-user experience on material design principles and defined and built new pricing and payment platform for emerging markets.
Prior to Google Apoorv was the Co-founder of AI Frontiers (the Leading Applied AI conference in the Bay area), and Okati Inc. (a mobile payment startup providing instant credit). He also worked at McKinsey & Co and Alcatel-Lucent where he delivered significant impact on strategy, operations, design and build, and sales and marketing for clients in the financial & tech industry.
Apoorv has received numerous awards and has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Knowledge@Wharton and interviewed at multiple top publishers on AI technology. He has also been a Keynote speaker at many industry AI conferences.
Apoorv has a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai; a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Purdue University of Indiana and a Master of Business Administration, Major in Finance & Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School in Pennsylvania. He resides in California with his family.