Sameer Gupta

Sameer Gupta is the Chief Analytics Officer at DBS Bank.
With over 25 years of extensive banking and financial services experience, Sameer leads DBS’ enterprise-wide data and AI transformation to deliver on its 'AI-enabled bank' vision - a journey now featured as a Harvard Business School case study.
Under his strategic leadership, the bank has achieved over $750 million in business outcomes through the deployment of hundreds of AI and advanced analytics initiatives, significantly impacting revenue growth, customer experience, productivity, and risk management.
Sameer's transformative work focuses on several pillars:
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Driving advanced analytics capabilities: He has been instrumental in conceptualising and driving DBS’ Data & AI transformation journey, including the application of GenAI and Agentic AI within the organisation.
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Cultivating a data-driven culture: Sameer leads DBS’ Data Chapter of 700+ professionals to scale data and analytics thinking across the organization, in addition to enabling a bank-wide movement to embed data fluency and storytelling across the organisation.
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Pioneering modern data governance and responsible AI: Enabled data through the implementation of modern governance processes, including pioneering responsible data use and model governance with P.U.R.E - DBS’ Responsible AI framework for AI and GenAI models.
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Architecting a cutting-edge data platform: Sameer has acted as the business lead and product owner for the redesign of DBS’ enterprise data and AI tech platform (ADA), creating an agile, secure, and scalable foundation for advanced analytics.
His expertise spans advanced analytics, AI/ML, commercial excellence, strategic marketing, customer experience, change management, and pricing, underscoring their comprehensive strategic vision for data and AI.
During his tenure with DBS, Sameer has been instrumental in conceptualising and implementing key transformational elements like Data Driven Operating Model, Managing through Journeys, AI Industrialisation, ALAN, ADA, PURE etc. across the bank.