Operational Deployment: Driving Middle and Back Office Efficiency with Agentic AI in Alternative Investments

Agustin has 30+ years of experience in the Financial Services industry across multiple areas including relationship management and business development, banking operations, risk management, payments, transformation management, and strategic planning across multiple cultures, geographies and organizations including Citigroup, Barclays, Genpact, Slalom and Grid Dynamics. For the last 15 years, Agustin has been advising Financial Institutions to effectively drive strategic transformation in their businesses by leveraging new technologies. Agustin has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.

Suresh Nageswaran works with clients in Wealth Management, Capital Markets, and Banking with a focus on AI-driven, cloud-native solutions. He specializes in applying advanced analytics, semantic search, and bitemporal architectures to complex problems in private markets, portfolio construction, and regulatory compliance. With deep experience across structured products, payments, and alternative investments, he bridges business strategy and hands-on engineering. As an active thought leader, he frequently writes and speaks on topics such as Total Portfolio Approach, private-market data challenges, and agentic AI systems.

Leads practices across Cloud, DevOps, and AI-augmented SDLC. He has helped global enterprises modernize legacy systems, embed AI across engineering workflows and embrace outcome-based delivery models. Pavel brings 20 years of cross-sector experience, including a decade building financial capabilities for telecom and payment providers, and another decade driving operational excellence and delivery transformation for large service providers. His consulting expertise spans operating model design, performance optimization, and intelligent operations across BFSI, retail, and technology sectors. He combines deep technical fluency in AI, classical ML, and simulation with pragmatic business acumen to deliver measurable impact at scale.