Raj Date

Rajeev V. “Raj” Date (born March 31, 1971) is an American businessman and former government official who served as Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He had previously served in a variety of leadership positions at the Bureau, including as the startup agency's leader as the Special Advisor to the United States Secretary of the Treasury. He is credited with guiding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's early strategic, operational, and policy initiatives.

Early life and education Date graduated from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering in 1992, with highest honors as the department citation recipient for industrial engineering and operations research; he also earned a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1995.

Date then felt an interest in getting involved in public policy: “The only things I really knew anything about – bank balance sheets, consumer credit, capital markets – all of that was relevant from a public policy point of view in the spring of 2009” he said in an interview with Finance-Re-Wired. He left the banking industry in 2009 to start the Cambridge Winter Center, a nonprofit think tank devoted to promoting the regulation of financial firms.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Date joined the CFPB in February 2011 as associate director of research, markets and regulations, where he oversaw work on consumer finance sectors including credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, checking and savings accounts, payday lending, and credit reporting. Date expected putting together the CFPB to be a 2–3 month endeavor, but was asked by Warren and Treasury to lead “the guts of the policy apparatus.” Date was never found to be in violation of any laws and he had always recused himself from rule-making regarding peer-to-peer lending. Date resigned from the CFPB in 2013, and was succeeded by Richard Cordray, the first Director of the agency. Date later described early CFPB as a start-up and a post-merger environment. He described the goals of the agency as twofold: “To create tangible value for people who interact with the financial services system – in other words, to really kind of help markets create value for people. It seems so pedestrian now, but coming out of the heels of the crisis it was sort of novel.” But also to “build a great institution: something that was going to have a culture and norms and talent, and a reputation for trying to do the right thing, and to try to do it in the right way.” Speaking about his hybrid venture capital and advisory firm, Date told American Banker, “At the time that I left Treasury and CFPB in 2013, the observation was ‘that there was a lot going on in fintech right now!’” Fenway Summer's investment affiliates include Fenway Summer Ventures, an early-stage institutional venture capital firm.

Date has served on a number of boards of directors, including the global digital assets infrastructure firm Circle from 2013 to 2026. Date also chairs the investment committee at Fenway Summer Ventures and counsels clients through the advisory firm FS Vector.

Date has appeared as a contributor on MSNBC and CNBC.

Personal and family

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Date is the son of Dr. Usha V. Date and Dr. Vishvanath V. Date, both of whom immigrated to the United States in 1966. Date's father retired as the chief of staff of the Military Medical Center at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Date is married to Jessica Killin, an attorney and former U.S. Army Captain. Killin served as chief of staff to U.S. Representatives Donna Shalala and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Killin last served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff. Killin announced her candidacy for Colorado's 5th congressional district on July 15, 2025. Date and Killin have three children.