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Rahul Jalai

Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Union Pacific Railroad

 

Rahul Jalali was appointed senior vice president and chief information officer in November 2020 and promoted to executive vice president in June 2023. In this position, Jalali serves as the organization’s technology thought leader, ensuring Union Pacific has a complete, integrated process and systems strategy. This includes flexibility to innovate and improve speed-to-market by introducing cutting edge capabilities and optimize business models driven by technology.

Rahul is an active member of the advisory committee of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

(CISA). In this role Rahul serves to speak on behalf of the transportation industry and provide advice to keep the national critical infrastructure safe from cyber threats.

Prior to joining Union Pacific, Jalali spent 23 years with retail behemoth Walmart Inc. in increasing leadership roles, most recently as Corporate Vice President in the technology division serving Walmart International. In that role he specialized in developing world-class global technology solutions and organizations that could scale technology platforms, leverage data, automation, machine learning, build quality products to grow/optimize businesses.

Jalali holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Make a Wish Nebraska as well as Habitat for Humanity foundations. He and his family are passionate about involvement in the local community development projects with a focus on the well-being of children.

 

 

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