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10 American Express data and analytics leaders
These ten current and former American Express data and analytics leaders have held vice president and director roles in data science, decision science and analytics. A reader can learn how heads of data lead data and analytics organizations in payments businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amol Salunkhe
LinkedInExperience: Vice President · American Express
Vice President at American Express since 2024, after an earlier Vice President role (2021–2024) and Director (2019–2021) there; the profile headline calls him an artificial intelligence leader covering AI and GenAI platforms, personalization, data science and governance, with work themes including enterprise AI/ML platforms. It also lists Chief Data & Analytics Officer at FSEnablers (2016–2019).
Binsy Mathew
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Membership Experience Analytics · American Express
Vice President, Membership Experience Analytics at American Express since 2023, after Vice President, Digital Platform Analytics (2022–2023). The profile describes leading teams spanning product and platform analytics and campaign measurement. Earlier American Express roles listed include Director, Global Consumer Digital Acquisition Analytics (2018–2022).
Jingnan Xiao
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Consumer Marketing Decision Science · American Express
Vice President - Consumer Marketing Decision Science at American Express since 2026. Earlier American Express roles listed are Vice President - US Consumer New Account and Line Assignment Modeling (2024–2026), Vice President - Global Consumer New Account Decision Science (2022–2024) and Director - US Consumer New Account Decision Science (2021–2022).
Jun Kim
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Finance Data Science & Analytics · American Express
Vice President, Finance Data Science & Analytics at American Express since 2021, where the profile says he leads a team of 15+ data scientists in New York and India responsible for enterprise forecasting. Earlier American Express roles listed are Director, Finance Decision Science (2019–2021) and Director, Enterprise Risk Data Analytics (2016–2019).
Karthik Krishnamoorthy
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Lending Data Science & Analytics · American Express
Vice President - Lending Data Science & Analytics at American Express in New York since 2024, with a profile headline that also names pricing. Earlier American Express roles listed are Director - Finance Data Science & Analytics (2021–2024) and Senior Decision Scientist (2019–2021).
Krishna Sunkara
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data Science · American Express
Director of Data Science at American Express since 2022. The profile says the role leads the vision, strategy, roadmap and execution of the enterprise AI/ML and advanced analytics platform, serving thousands of users and hundreds of modeling pipelines. Earlier American Express roles listed include Senior Engineer of Artificial Intelligence (2018–2022).
Lin Xu
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Treasury Data Science · American Express
Vice President, Treasury Data Science at American Express since 2025. Earlier American Express roles listed are Vice President, US Consumer Investment Optimization (2022–2025), Vice President, Risk Finance Data Science (2020–2022) and Director, Finance Data Science (2017–2020).
Rajeev S Mantha
LinkedInExperience: Vice President · American Express
Vice President at American Express since 2026, after an earlier Vice President role there (2022–2026), with a profile headline of Vice President - Global Servicing Data Science. The profile describes leading digital targeting, financial product design and customer engagement analytics and developing AI/ML-powered personalization capabilities. Earlier American Express roles listed are Director (2018–2022) and Data Scientist (2017–2018).
Siva Kalaga
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Data Science · American Express
Vice President Data Science at American Express since 2024, with a profile headline of Vice President, Marketing and Sales Data Science. Earlier American Express roles listed are Director, Prospect Acquisition Data Science (2021–2024), Senior Manager, Commercial Digital Data Science (2019–2021) and Manager, Commercial Digital Data Science (2017–2019).
Tracy B.
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Global Customer Data Science Analytics · American Express
Former Vice President Global Customer Data Science Analytics at American Express (2017–2022) and Vice President US Marketing Science Customer Personalization there (2022–2025). Earlier American Express roles listed include Vice President Global Customer Acquisitions Analytics (2015–2017) and Director & Acting VP, US Customer Acquisitions, Risk & Information Management (2013–2015).
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Match the person's remit to your question: finance and treasury data science leaders suit questions about forecasting and modeling, while marketing, lending and membership experience leaders suit questions about customer targeting, pricing and digital analytics. Check whether the role is current or past before asking about recent practice.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a card issuer organize data science between marketing, credit, finance and servicing teams?
- 02What does it take to build an enterprise machine learning platform that hundreds of modeling pipelines rely on?
- 03How do you measure the effect of personalization and digital experiments on card member behavior?
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