Rajesh Kalathur

Rajesh Kalathur

President, John Deere Financial, and CIO at Deere
Company Tenure: 28 years
Education:
University of Alabama (Master's) University of Chicago (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Rajesh Kalathur holds the position of President, John Deere Financial, and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Deere. Based in Moline, Illinois, Kalathur has been with Deere for 28 years. He obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Alabama and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

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Deere

Deere

Key Statements

“Every few decades we just reinvent ourselves into a completely new company. One we transformed, you know, John Deere financials division to be a digital captain with a human touch and then we changed the organization. I think BCG helped us with this. Those are really empowering for our employees, and then we started a new product organization. We did not have a product organization. We did not have a product organization. We said, hey look at all the digital fintech companies, you know that's going to be our core. And then we are investing substantially in, you know, digitalization training and DE&I. You know, doubling, tripling down on DE&I.”

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