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title: "How New York Life points governance to business value"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/new-york-life-business-value/"
description: "Rahul Bakhshi from New York Life explains why 180 years of data means governance can't stay a back-office function anymore."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

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**How New York Life Points Governance to Business Value** is a Re:Govern 2025 session video in the Atlan Re:Govern watch center. Rahul Bakhshi from New York Life explains why 180 years of data means governance can't stay a back-office function anymore.

Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/new-york-life-business-value/ (email required to keep watching). All sessions: https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/

## Speakers

- **Rahul Bakhshi**, VP, Data & Technology, New York Life. Rahul governs data for New York Life, a 180-year-old institution built on trust. He's modernizing that foundation with AI-powered classification, automated quality checks, and governance designed to enable 12,000+ agents. His mandate: protect what matters while accelerating business value through responsible AI.

## Companies

- **New York Life**: With $1.2T in life insurance and $808B in assets under management, New York Life isn't just America's largest mutual insurer - they're building cloud-first AI infrastructure that transforms 180 years of data into customer experiences that drive revenue.

## What's inside

New York Life has 180 years of data wealth - and legacy complexity. As they become a truly tech and data-enabled organization, governance shifts from back office to critical enabler. Rahul shares how governance helps them find the right data, trust it, use it for the right purpose at the right time, and accelerate time to insights responsibly with quality at the core.

### Key takeaways

- 180 years of history creates data wealth but also legacy system complexity that governance must navigate
- Governance transforms from back-office function to critical enabler of AI ambitions and data visions
- Finding, trusting, and using the right data for the right purpose at the right time requires active governance, not passive compliance
- Time to insights acceleration happens when governance removes friction rather than adding gates
- Rebooting cataloging and quality management capabilities points them toward business value delivery, not just risk mitigation

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- [Modern Data & AI Governance Blueprint](https://atlan.com/blueprint) (resource)