Galytix adds leaders for global AI growth

Galytix has appointed former Quantexa executive Roshni Patel as chief growth officer, as the specialist AI company expands its senior leadership team to support global growth in banking and insurance.

Patel is one of five strategic hires announced by the company. Galytix has also appointed former Citigroup executive Mauricio Masondo as head of growth for the UK and Europe, Anne-Laure Riou as head of growth for the GCC, Michael Axarlis as head of growth for Australia, and Alain Herz as head of global partnerships. Together, the appointments strengthen the company’s sales, partnerships, and market development capabilities across regions it regards as commercially important.

The expansion reflects a wider shift in financial services, where banks and insurers are moving more quickly to adopt domain-specific AI tools that can handle regulated workflows, unstructured data, and audit requirements. Galytix is leaning into that demand by adding senior operators with experience across credit, non-financial risk, sustainable finance, technology, and international partnerships.

Patel joins from Quantexa, where she was global head of risk solutions, and brings earlier experience from KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group, and Moody’s Analytics. Masondo most recently led ESG credit management at Citigroup, while Riou, Axarlis, and Herz bring regional growth, enterprise sales, and alliance experience from companies including Gartner, Temenos, Finastra, S&P Global Market Intelligence, SAS Australia, and Quantexa.

Raj Abrol, founder and chief executive of Galytix, said: “We are at a true inflection point. Financial institutions that act now will define the next decade. Generic AI was never built for the precision that credit and risk demands. When a model can’t explain its reasoning to a regulator, or collapses under unstructured data, it fails the institution. Galytix was built differently, with financial institutions, for financial institutions, over the past decade. Our AI Agents are deployed inside the world’s most complex, heavily regulated institutions, helping credit officers, relationship managers and claims teams supercharge speed, sharpen decisions, and deliver auditability that regulators trust.”