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DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Data and analytics leader of the year: Arun Mehta, NatWest

As global head of data and analytics engineering, Arun Mehta leads the core data platform capability for NatWest, supporting initiatives including environmental, social and governance (ESG), regulatory reporting, customer lifetime value, machine learning modelling and financial crime and fraud prevention.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner - Data and analytics leader of the year: Arun Mehta

As global head of data and analytics engineering, Arun Mehta leads the core data platform capability for NatWest, supporting initiatives including environmental, social and governance (ESG), regulatory reporting, customer lifetime value, machine learning modelling and financial crime and fraud prevention. According to colleagues, “through Arun’s leadership, his team has been transformed into a high-performing global workforce, supporting the bank’s ambitious strategy to use data and machine learning to support customers and the wider community it operates in.”

Under Mehta’s leadership, the data platform workforce has been transformed into a high-performing global talent pool and his team supports the core pillars of the data strategy agenda to use data and machine learning to support customers and the wider community. Key customer-centric initiatives impacted by Mehta’s efforts include machine learning conversational intelligence, customer lifetime value and fraud and financial crime detection and prevention.
 
The efforts of Mehta and the motivations he can instil in colleagues resulted in 70% of his global team being professionally certified in at least one cloud data technology. On a more personal level, his leadership and empathy saw him going above and beyond when supporting colleagues across the globe throughout the pandemic to monitor everyone’s wellbeing in a difficult scenario.

 
His work has seen him represent NatWest in global technology publications and become a regular speaker for global data and tech conferences. He also represents NatWest Group on the Amazon Web Services customer advisory board and recently spoke at the Gartner Data Analytics Summit examining modernising the data fabric to drive business outcomes.

DataIQ Awards 2022
Year: 2022
Category: Data and Analytics Leader of the Year

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