Deep Ratna Srivastav

Deep Srivastav is a senior vice president, head of AI & digital transformation for Franklin Templeton. Mr. Srivastav is responsible for the strategy and execution for Franklin Templeton's AI and digital capabilities. He is responsible for AI research and innovation, for managing the firm's AI driven digital platform and for driving digital transformation for the enterprise and clients.

In his prior role, he drove the development and deployment of Franklin Templeton's investment solutions through digital channels. He oversaw the digital product roadmap leveraging financial technologies, data science capabilities and investment for bringing personalized investment solutions to market. These solutions won the Barron's/MMI Industry Disruptor Award in 2021 and were included in the WealthTech 100 list in 2024. Mr. Srivastav joined Franklin Templeton in 2007, and his earlier roles at Franklin Templeton include serving as the global head of data & analytics and head of business strategy for North America. He has also held various leadership roles at the firm, which have included responsibilities of client analytics, capital market research, data sciences, digital analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, and business strategy.

Mr. Srivastav holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics from The M.S. University of Baroda in India and an MBA with a focus in quantitative research and marketing from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance from the CQF Institute. He is also a GE Capital certified Six Sigma Black Belt and IBM certified in Python for Data Science and SQL.

Mr. Srivastav is the co-author of "A New Approach to Goals Based Wealth Management", which was published in the Journal of Investment Management and won the Harry M. Markowitz Award in 2018. He has co-authored papers that have been published in Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Computational Management Science, Journal of Wealth Management and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He is the recipient of "Innovator of the Year" award by WealthTech Americas for 2023. He is on the editorial board of the CDO Magazine, the advisory committee of SFO Chief Data Officers Community managed by Evanta, Global Business of Data Advisory Board for 2023, the client advisory board of Fractal Analytics and on the advisory council of Journal of Investment Management. He represented Franklin Templeton within Data Board (a board.org community) for 2020-21.