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Mission: Purpose, Passion, & Profession

My purpose is helping people live better lives using technology and social science. My passion is the nexus of digital brains (machine intelligence) and human brains (social psychology). My profession is bringing technology and people together.

I build products that amplify human capability — and the teams that deliver them. I practice synthesis engineering and synthesis coding.

Résumé & Biography

In The News

AdWeek: ScalePost.AI, advised by former NYT and WSJ CTO Rajiv Pant, emerges as key player in AI-publisher partnerships
Hearst: Rajiv Pant Named GM of Technology Platforms and CTPO of Hearst Magazines (Editor & Publisher, MediaPost)
Talking Biz News: WSJ’s chief technology officer promoted to News Corp. position
Talking Biz News: WSJ hires chief technology and product officer
The Wall Street Journal: New York Times CTO Rajiv Pant Joins Digital Media Startup Some Spider
Politico: NY Times CTO Rajiv Pant leaves to join a startup
The CTO Series: An interview with Rajiv Pant, CTO of The New York Times by Justin Hendrix, Executive Director at NYC Media Lab
Quartz: Why I left being CTO of The New York Times, joined a startup, and am pledging 20% of my equity to charity
World Economic Forum: Honored as a Young Global Leader (2014)

Awards

World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2014)
Newspaper Association of America: 20 Under 40 (2006)
Knight Ridder Excellence Awards (2001, 1999)

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Publications

Harvard Business Review: Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (with Elena Kvochko, 2015)
Harvard Nieman Lab: Acing the Algorithmic Beat, Journalism’s Next Frontier (with Francesco Marconi and Till Daldrup, 2019)
Harvard Nieman Lab: How the WSJ Is Preparing Its Journalists to Detect Deepfakes (with Francesco Marconi and Till Daldrup, 2018)
World Economic Forum: Why Investors Should Care About Cyber Security Breaches (with Elena Kvochko, 2014)

Cited In

Columbia University PhD Dissertation: Christopher W. Anderson, Breaking Journalism Down: Work, Authority, and Networking Local News (2009), citing PhillyFinder architecture. Later published as Rebuilding the News (Temple University Press).
Georgetown Law Technology Review: Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2019), citing deepfake combat strategies at The Wall Street Journal.
NYSE “Navigating the Digital Age”: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers (2019), citing cyber risk valuation framework.

What Colleagues Say

“Rajiv is a very strong digital executive with rock solid credentials in both engineering and product, but with great creative flair. At The New York Times, he was a real magnet for talent.”
— Mark Thompson, CEO, The New York Times Company

“When Rajiv arrived at The Wall Street Journal, our technology was in a mess in every way. Rajiv transformed their entire department within weeks… It is not too much to say that it was not until his time here that we truly became a technologically adept newsroom and company.”
— Matthew Murray, Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal

“Rajiv was my mentor and advisor from the very start of my first-time founder journey as CTO of You.com… His input guided us in small product decisions and large strategic ones. Rajiv helped me build conviction in exploring B2B API offerings, which a year later became the cornerstone upon which the company raised capital and began to accelerate revenue growth.”
— Bryan McCann, CTO & Co-founder, You.com

“Rajiv is a visionary and a great tech leader. He has all the skills necessary to envision, direct, and execute great products. Most importantly, he is a team player and a great communicator. The full package!”
— Bob Sauerberg, CEO, Condé Nast

“Your insight and expertise were enormously valuable as we built the technology needed to launch and grow our digital business. And, your eye for talent helped us to fill our ranks with top developers and technologists.”
— Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman & Publisher, The New York Times

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