Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs

Neema is Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Engineering at Goldman Sachs.

Previously, Neema was head of Research and Development Engineering, responsible for determining the firm's strategy for emerging technology such as digital assets and artificial intelligence. Prior to that, he led various engineering teams in Core Engineering and was a member of the Core Strats team within the Securities Division that built SecDb. Neema joined the firm in 2003 as an analyst in the Technology Division and was named managing director in 2013.

Neema earned a BA in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003.