Rajesh Kalathur

Former President, John Deere Financial, former Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Deere & Company

Rajesh “Raj” Kalathur has nearly thirty years of experience across finance, information technology, operations, and sales and marketing functions at Deere & Company (“Deere”), a global leader in the production of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment and solutions. Most recently, Mr. Kalathur served as the president of John Deere Financial, a leading financial services provider for dealers and customers of John Deere equipment, and chief information officer of Deere from 2019 through his retirement in January 2026. As chief information officer, Mr. Kalathur oversaw Deere's information technology function, and recently led its implementation of its agile information technology operating model and digital transformation leveraging artificial intelligence and automation technologies. Mr. Kalathur also served as Deere's chief financial officer from September 2012 to March 2019, and then again from May 2022 to September 2022. Since February 2025, Mr. Kalathur has served as a director of American Tower Corporation, a global real estate investment trust, which acts as an independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of over 148,000 communications sites and an interconnected footprint of U.S. data center facilities.