Rahul Merchant has over 25 years of leadership and experience in the Financial Services and Technology industries. Most recently Rahul served as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Member of the Executive Committee at Fannie Mae. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer at Merrill Lynch.

His previous experience also includes senior leadership roles at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Sanwa Financial Products. Rahul currently serves on the Boards of Sun Microsystems (JAVA:NASDAQ), Netuitive, and Collebara, Inc. and on the Board of Advisors of the American India Foundation. He is also on the Board of World BPO Forum and an advisor to venture capital firms. Rahul is a frequent speaker at SIA, TiE, and CIO.