Suvrat Bansal is the Founder and CEO of Clarista, a platform that connects fragmented enterprise data and delivers real-time, AI-powered insights for faster decision-making. He is a seasoned data leader with over 25 years of experience transforming data into business growth across global financial institutions. Before founding Clarista, Suvrat held senior roles, including Chief Data Officer at UBS, as well as leadership positions at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. He is known for building scalable data strategies and pioneering approaches that simplify complex data environments into actionable intelligence.

Organizations struggle to make sense of fragmented data spread across multiple systems, slowing decision-making and increasing operational costs. Traditional approaches rely on copying and restructuring data, which creates inefficiencies and risks around accuracy and security. With the rapid rise of AI, many leaders are left wondering, how can they unlock real-time insights without adding more complexity?

Suvrat Bansal, a data and AI expert with decades of experience in global financial institutions, explains that the key is to rethink how data is accessed and used rather than how it is stored. He emphasizes a data-first mindset, where organizations connect and process data in real time instead of duplicating it across systems. Suvrat highlights the value of simplifying data access through business-friendly structures, automating workflows with AI, and aligning innovation with enterprise constraints like security and compliance. He also advises leaders to focus on outcomes and user experience, while gradually introducing change at a pace organizations can realistically adopt.

In this episode of The Customer Wins podcast, Richard Walker interviews Suvrat Bansal, Founder and CEO of Clarista, about transforming enterprise data with AI. Suvrat discusses real-time data processing, eliminating data duplication, and balancing innovation with compliance.