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Raju Kanjamalai

Adjunct Lecturer

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

Email Raju Kanjamalai

Departments

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Affiliations

Master of Science in Information Technology Program

Education

M.B.A. Organizational Behavior, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Post Graduate Diploma, Operations Research, Anna University Chennai

Biography

Raju Kanjamalai is a visionary technology executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in enterprise architecture, data strategy, and digital transformation across insurance and life sciences sectors. He is distinguished for driving enterprise-scale innovation, optimizing data assets, and delivering multimillion-dollar value through modernized data platforms, cloud-native architectures, and analytics-led decision making. Raju excels at influencing C-level strategy, managing global delivery organizations, and building high-performing teams that consistently achieve strategic objectives.

Key competencies include enterprise and integration architecture, microservices, modern data platforms, cloud/hybrid solutions, data governance, MDM, telematics/IoT, predictive analytics, compliance, risk management, P&L ownership, agile/DevOps, and executive advisory.

Raju’s career highlights include leadership roles at AbbVie, CNA, Deloitte, and Allstate, where he spearheaded major data modernization, predictive analytics, and regulatory compliance programs, realized substantial cost savings, and fostered agile, resilient teams. He has an MBA in Organizational Behavior, Masters in Operations Research and Physics, is a published inventor, adjunct lecturer, and certified in TOGAF and ITIL. His technical expertise spans MuleSoft, Kafka, Snowflake, cloud platforms, data integration, BI tools, and more.