Rakesh Thiagarajan is an experienced Lead Functional Business Analyst currently at EDF Trading since May 2022, with prior roles including Business Analyst at Gazprom Marketing & Trading and Technical Business Analyst at Credit Suisse, where Rakesh focused on Equity Derivatives Front Office Risk systems. Rakesh also served as a Power and Gas Product Control Analyst at Barclays Capital and as a Senior Research Analyst at CRISIL, managing application support for FO Risk Management Systems. Earlier career experience includes a Research Fellow position at GE-Money MSE Decision Sciences and Research Lab and a Software Engineer role at iGATE Global Solutions. Rakesh holds a Master of Science in Financial Economics and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, both from Anna University.