Varun Mallampalli, PhD
Business Director @ Capital One
About
Technically grounded leader currently directing Acquisitions Underwriting Strategy for Capital One’s flagship portfolios (Quicksilver, Savor, and Venture). I manage a team accountable for the policies we use to book 2M+ annual applicants, managing resilience and profitability. Previously, as Head of Product & Strategy for Card GenAI, I pioneered the enterprise roadmap and incubated marquee AI initiatives from discovery to delivery. My focus was on bridging the gap between "frontier" AI concepts and core value-driving products, ensuring innovation was both technically robust and commercially viable. My professional identity is defined by a PhD-level technical foundation with strategic rigor. This allows me to navigate between high-level strategy and the granular execution of technically challenging initiatives. I specialize in removing friction between Innovation and Governance to accelerate business results.
United States
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Financial Services
Economics, Numerical Analysis, Statistics, Research, Project Management, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Optimization, Data Analysis, Programming, Risk Analysis, Machine Learning, Consulting, @Risk, Financial Modeling, Econometrics, Matlab, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office
Experience

Director, GenAI & AI
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
I lead GenAI product, strategy & delivery for the Card LOB in Capital One. I led the scaling of the GenAI function and numerous value driving use cases from 0 -> 1, which also involved: I) setting the initial strategy II) Build and influence multiple exec stakeholders (within and across LOBs) to deliver key capabilities such as infrastructure and tooling etc III) Built the program and process to identify & incubate high value opportunities IV) Identified, scoped & delivered use cases across multiple business functions: Customer servicing, marketing, Risk, Fraud IV) Developed the risk and governance frameworks to slope risk and enable well managed delivery

Associate
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Growth strategy + Developed a growth strategy to build out an IOT enabled insurance vertical for a smart home device company to increase net valuation by $500M and revenues by $100M + Shaped growth strategy informed by a strategic acquisition of a supply chain software company to increase projected net revenues by $1B + Developed a new distribution channel strategy for an insurance carrier by assessing core technological integration capabilities and new potential distribution channel partners to enable revenue growth and PTOG of $~90M and $30M respectively Efficiency improvement and transformation + Led a team of 4 product managers at an insurance carrier to disentangle complex interdependencies, instrument a large-scale IT system rationalization and simplify policy issuance for life and term products to increase total savings and PTOG by ~$2M Enterprise risk management + Developed a comprehensive implementation plan to develop an integrated enterprise risk management framework for a top 3 global bank

PhD Candidate
Durham, NC
Graduate Researcher, Decision, risks and governance of geo-engineering - Co-wrote a grant and raised $84,100 as project funds after a competitive selection process Project Leader, Bass Connections in Energy, Disaggregating and projecting electricity demand in China - Received $18,000 as project funds after a competitive selection process - Co-managed a team of 9 students engaged in literature reviews, systems modelling, linear regression and logistic regression to analyse energy data in China for industrial, residential and commercial sectors - Designed surveys on electricity consumption administered to over 100 households in Beijing - Taught modules on system dynamics modelling as applied to climate change, energy efficiency and population projections - Participated in the design of provincial level scenarios of income, population, appliance adoption and energy efficiency in China for the next 50 years - Co-authored 2 journal papers on : i) electrical appliance usage scenarios for next 50 years in China, based on scenarios of population, income and appliance adoption (in review, Applied Energy) ii) population projection scenarios for next 50 years in China, disaggregated regionally and forecasted using systems dynamics and time series models in Co-leader and co-founder, Modelling Health and Environment, Graduate working group - Co-wrote a grant and raised $6,999 as funds for a graduate working group to teach mathematical modelling skills - Led modelling sessions on Infectious diseases dynamics and predator-prey models with participation of around 20 students - Invited and conducted guest lectures from eminent faculty in public health, systems dynamics and environmental modelling Guest Lecturer, Uncertainty,Optimization and Economics - Taught undergraduate class on topics related to utility and value functions and risk attitudes in the context of rational decision making

Expert and External Consultant (pro-bono)
- Expert on projects involved with State govts. of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat in India - Applying predictive analytics and causal inference to determine policy intervention points for improving student learning outcomes in public and private schools - Capacity building on systems thinking, survey design, statistics, causal thinking, development economics, machine learning and data management

PHD Student
Hanover, NH
Treasurer for Thayer Council, Dartmouth College - Maintaining financial records and accounts of the Thayer Council and overseeing a budget of 12,000$ - Act as a liaison between the Thayer Council and Thayer Account Office. - Ensure efficient utilisation of funds to sustain Thayer School of Engineering activities over the academic year. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Energy Systems - Conducted weekly TA sessions on energy systems design and modelling - Wrote homework solutions and computer programs for assignments including unit commitment and economic dispatch problems in MATLAB and GAMS Graduate Teaching Lead and Instructor, Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty - Conducted weekly TA sessions, graded assignments, homeworks and made exam questions - Designed and taught a class on introductory graduate game theory ( pure strategy games, mixed strategy games, extensive form games, prisoners' dilemma, repeated games )

Operations Intern
Manchester, New Hampshire
- Developed mathematical formulas to determine theoretical cycle times of cutting and extrusion operations - Performed efficiency measurements of cutting and extrusion operations by comparing actual and theoretical cycle times - Developed a revenue maximisation strategy to raise revenues by 25% by suggesting staggered breaks for the cutting operation and increasing speeds on certain billets on the extrusion operation
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