Vishal is a financial services industry specialist and leads global initiatives for Agentic and Generative AI/ML for Payments at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he works with leading payments institutions to transform their business and bring innovative solutions to market by leveraging cloud capabilities. Over the past 7 years he has held leadership roles in AWS’ Financial Services and Partnerships businesses. Prior to joining AWS, Vishal spent over 15 years with PwC Consulting in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, where he held various senior leadership roles and was responsible for leading global strategic initiatives for fortune 100 financial institutions on finance and digital transformation, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic risk and regulatory management.