Raj Patel is a Managing Partner and the Chief Customer Officer at Exusia responsible for customer satisfaction and growth enabling client digital, analytics, and data engineering business strategy and consulting solutions including sales, advisory & delivery service oversight/quality, and resource management. Since joining Exusia in 2013, Raj has been instrumental to the rapid growth across the United States and internationally, while ensuring clients receive the highest quality solution advisory and implementation services to provide tangible value and return on data & technology investments. With two decades of experience successfully guiding and executing on client Digital Transformation, M&A, Modernization and Governance programs, leveraging multiple data engineering, business intelligence, and analytics technologies including commercial 4GL, open-source and cloud-based platforms, Raj is able to ensure clients are able to make the right data architecture, technology, and governance decisions using an ROI based approach that is in alignment with their businesses’ strategies and priorities. Due to his deep hands-on technical background as well as his business acumen, Raj is well-versed in delivering meaningful corporate value through digital/data solutions including enterprise data strategy, technology modernization, self-service analytics, data quality/governance frameworks, cloud migrations, predictive analytics, machine learning, and revenue-generating operational applications.Prior to Exusia, Raj was the founder of a niche data engineering firm that helped Fortune 100 organizations such as Allstate and Fannie Mae modernize and scale their enterprise data applications. Prior to this, Raj held senior technical positions at Teradata, Hitachi Consulting, TransUnion, and Knightsbridge Solutions (Acquired by HP).Raj received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he graduated from the Honors College specializing in software and database engineering.