Vasanth Raju

Vasanth Raju heads AI product strategy and development for Rakuten Group from the Singapore Hub, driving the integration of models, agents and platforms across key global markets. He focuses on building an AI ecosystem that bridges the gap between intent and action, delivering measurable commercial results through agentic commerce and large-scale adoption.

Prior to Rakuten, Vasanth was a solutions leader at Google, where he managed regional strategic partnerships and commercial outcomes. With over a decade of experience as a founder and product leader across the APAC region in computer vision, content automation and ad-tech, he brings a deep operational background in scaling complex AI platforms. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Biological Sciences from BITS Pilani.