Aditya Vikram Kashyap '16

Distinguished Young Alumnus Award

Aditya Vikram Kashyap is a Senior Program Manager in the Financial Crimes Technology Division at Morgan Stanley, New York. He is a technologist, speaker and an innovator renowned for his expertise in creating surveillance technologies that aim to prevent, detect and mitigate suspicious activities and client behaviors globally. Aditya's work of building complex risk assessment models and algorithms contributes to safeguarding client assets and enhances due diligence and compliance of Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption Laws. These complex risk frameworks and algorithms act like a first line of defense against threat agents like fraud, identity impersonation, terrorist financing, tax evasion, money laundering, insider trading etc.

Aditya is also a highly skilled digital transformation leader who is currently tasked with spearheading the agile transformation of Financial Crimes Technology as an Enterprise Agile Coach. Aditya has an impressive track record of developing high performing, successful teams using agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Frameworks to bring about technological efficiencies in software development and deployment. He is a thought leader who specializes in taking an organizational approach to agility, recognizing that all aspects of the businesses gain value and benefit from being agile.

Over the years, Aditya has won numerous awards for his leadership, expertise and relentless drive to build a safer financial ecosystem, these include the Morgan Stanley Mentor of the Year (2018), Morgan Stanley Technology Excellence Award (2017) and Drexel 40 Under 40 (2019) to name a few. Aditya earned a Masters of Science in Management and Systems in 2016 from New York University specializing in Enterprise Risk Management and a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration in 2013 from Drexel University, majoring in Management Information Systems and Economics.

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