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Swamy Kocherlakota

Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, S&P Global

Swamy Kocherlakota is the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer for S&P Global and is responsible for driving digital transformation and delivering productivity improvements for our customers and employees. With a focus on leading-edge technology and digital ecosystems, Swamy and his team are responsible for building a secure, scalable and resilient foundation that helps S&P Global power the markets of the future.

Prior to S&P Global, Mr. Kocherlakota was SVP, Global Head of Technology Operations & Infrastructure at Visa, Inc. where he oversaw global infrastructure and applications that processed over 130 billion transactions annually. Before VISA, he was at BNY Mellon as the head of Global Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture and led their infrastructure transformation. Mr. Kocherlakota holds the recognition of being a distinguished engineer at Lucent Bell Labs where he managed technology for Lucent and its ventures.

Mr. Kocherlakota is a NASD registered representative and has a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University.