Rajeev Bahri, CFA, CAMS

Rajeev Bahri, CFA, CAMS has extensive experience in the finance industry. Rajeev began their career in 1985 as an Associate at AT&T, where they were part of the AT&T Cooperative (COOP) Education and Management Fast Track program for Operations. Rajeev then had multiple 3-4 month internships during business school (GSB) in various roles, including engineering and operations, software development, quality consulting and process improvement, and business analyst for overhead and cost reduction strategies. In 1991, Rajeev joined First Chicago as Vice President, followed by a similar role at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in 1995. In 1997, they became Vice President Capital Market at AIG. In 1998, Rajeev co-founded Vector Financial Group (VFG) as Managing Partner, where they wrote the quantitative trading models and automated the core business functions. Rajeev was responsible for a mix of discretionary and proprietary systematic trading models that operated across three dimensions: Time (short to long duration), Model Type (trend following to pattern recognition to contrarian), and Asset Type (from S&P500, Currencies, to Fixed Income). In 2000, Rajeev founded Tekchand LLC as CEO. In 2015, they co-founded KYC2020 LLC and currently serves as the Chief Executive, Lead Investor. Rajeev leads the KYC2020 team in executing its mission to use technology to reduce cost and friction in AML compliance.

Rajeev Bahri obtained their Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology between 1984 and 1988. Rajeev then went on to obtain their Master of Business Administration in Finance, General from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 1989 to 1991. In 1997, they obtained their Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification. In December 2018, they obtained their Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).