Sharad Gupta Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Building new AI and Automation business and products. Advising CEO and management team on GenAI Product strategy, Product management and driving GenAI and automation business growth/GTM for its GenAI products in Fraud, AML, Risk and contact center, sales, service and operations.Quinte is a NewYork based Risk, AML, Fraud HyperAutomation FinTech serving 40+ US Banks.

San Francisco Bay Area

At BertAi, the leading Silicon Valley-based Generative AI company , I partner with businesses in the financial services, Fintech and e-commerce to help them harness the latest AI/ML advancements for dramatic revenue growth and cost reduction.Most recently I have advised Banks, Fintech and deeptech companies on the following 1. Advised a large Fintech on three native AI/ML Fraud, AML and KYC product strategy, planning. I also helped the company in US wide GTM strategy development and execution.2. Product management and GTM of conversational commerce Gen AI products and secured three paid clients in first 6 months of its launch.3. Product strategy and fundraising for a conversational analytics Gen AI product and secured three paid clients in first 6 months of its launch. Beyond my consulting work, I'm also the founder of a vibrant community of over 200 AI/ML experts, product managers, and researchers who meet regularly to exchange ideas and insights on the latest developments in the field.

United States

I invest in early-stage (Seed to Series A) growth startups in AI, Web 3.0, Marketing Tech, and other Digital companies. I have invested in over 10 startups at the early stage, a few of which include:1. Blu Smart (unicorn): A Delhi-based EV car rental company.Website: https://blu-smart.com/2. Wizly: Offering micro consulting on product management and growth.Website: https://www.wizly.app/3. Tablt: An online B2B medicine delivery platform.Website: https://tablt.com/4. Rhym: A SaaS Marketing tech platform to allow marketers build launch gamified marketing campaignsWebsite: https://play.rhym.io/ 5. Data Gems: DataGems is the first AI copilot for marketing data. Transform scattered marketing data into compelling narratives with DataGems. website: https://datagems.ai

Singapore

Head of ASEAN Advsiory and Innovations teams. Advised CXOs of ASEAN large corporates on topics of AI/ML, Risk management,fraud management,Compliance, Marketing and Digital Innovations

Singapore

A Forbes 100 to watch for company and Singapore head quartered, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning RegTech company with 100+ employees Singapore, US and India . Tookitaki was funded for $19.2 in series A and have several large global Banks as its clients. Leading payment company Thunes took majority stake in the company.Tookitaki was awarded tech Pioneer companies of 2019 by world economic forum and BIS award in 2020.Prior to exit, Sharad was part of the management team and headed Client Advisory, Data Science and Product Management and Partnerships of ComplianceAML/Fraud & Risk management products. This requires deep risk management, compliance, data science & management consulting skills. He had led the Data Science team, product owner for the key AI products, and drove business growth globally. Key achievements were as follows1. Designed & Implemented enterprise scale Debt Collections/Risk management native self learning and explainable AI/ML product which is already in production across 10 countries that reduced losses by 20%+ and created multimillion impact across retail Banking portfolio of a global bank across 14+ countries2. Designed & Implemented enterprise scale AML & KYC AI/ML products which is already in production in leading Banks globally.These products are generating following impact* 30-70% false alerts reduction* Anomaly detection & business explaibility of AI models ( Patent filed)3. Helped Tookitaki in achieving 0-N million revenue by successfully building and implementing key Tookitaki AI products and lead 20+Data science team.4. Influenced senior leadership of Banks in adopting the Tookitaki solution and in their digital innovation journey in Risk and compliance.Sharad has played a pivotal role in growing tookitaki building AML, KYC & Collections products from conception to implementation by designing the product, conducting POC, and implementing it in production at various large Banks.

Singapore

Build and managed B2B SaaS product to help ASEAN Banks and SMEs* Responsible for all aspect of launching & managing the new business i.e. product development, Sales, BD, Digital marketing, operations & support* Developing ecosystem partners e.g. Banks & e-commerce companies

Singapore

Worked as APAC VP with VFS Global which is a part of $5 billion Kuoni group of companies.Build a new $100+ million revenue potential business (VASCO) and product in Retail and E-commerce business across India, China, South east Asia, Australia from scratch within a large organization. Managed APAC P&L and grew the business 10-20% month on month to over $15 million revenue buisness. Key highlights* Build and implemented growth strategy for the VASCO travel retail business in APAC* Build and implemented E-commerce strategy for VASCO travel retail business across globe* Started VASCO retail outlets in China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Australia. * Developed B2B and B2C retails offline sales channel across APAC for multiple international travel products* Lead 150+ employees team spread across India, China, Australia, S. Korea and rest of the APAC.

Singapore

Berlin stock exchange listed Rocket has investments in 50+ major internet companies globally under its portfolio.Instrumental in building largest e-commerce companies of rocket internet in Asia. Part of founder's team which built Zalora.com, Lazada.com and foodpanda.comCMO of foodpanda where he was responsible for Sales and Marketing(offline and digital) strategy and day to management of Marketing and Head of Analytics across Asia(India,Pakistan,Singapore, Malaysia,Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand)He also build Advanced analytics functions for 8 eight countries in SEA covering two ventures(Zalora; the online high street fashion ecommerce venture and Lazada; online retailer with valued & $2 billion+)Grew the foodpanda's topline 5X in a year

India,Uae, Singapore

i3 Consulting(a Mckinsey alumni company).i3 Consulting has over 50+ consultants. i3C serve clients in PE due diligence support,Corporate finance,strategy and data science services worldwide.

India, Uae, Usa

Banking focused consultant. Worked across primarily Strategy and Quant/Data Science, Risk management projects across the globe including US, Dubai, India and Spain.Corporate and Business strategy work in Banking involved•Post merger integration of two large Banks•Growth strategy and its implementation for a large Indian Bank•Digitization strategy for retail banking•Customer life cycle management(CLM) for retail portfolio at a large US Bank•Collection strategy for a large Spanish retail Bank•Liquidity management strategy for bank under stress Data Science & Banking Risk Management work involved•Economic and regulatory capital management strategy to meet growth aspirations while optimally utilizing the capital •Risk management process ,systems and model development•Designing of credit risk ,market risk management policy,systems and Data science models(PD, EAD, LGD) covering retail, SME and corporate business•Designing and execution of the effective collection strategy, supervised models

Bangalore & Usa

Managed the appied research and Data Science work in customer life cycle management and marketing strategies of GE's PLCC(Private label Credit card) business.Team consisted of quant & stratigist and focused on deep Data science modeling and innovative credit card data scince solutions developed and applied on 1 TB+ data.Team build solutions using supervised modeling including CART, ANN, Logistic regression, unsupervised models like K-means, SVM, discrete and linear optimization

Albany, New York Area

Solutioned and implemented several data science projects with machine data

Worked with regaional sales and marketing for the following1. SUV and passenger car sales management2. Worked with car dealers of TATA motors for sales push across North India3. Ran local marketing activities

Master Of Science (Ms), Operations Research

Activities and Societies: President graduate student union (I.E)*Won Scholarship for MS program * Got elected as president IE graduate.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Industrial Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: *Director for street and long length plays *Secretary and Captain of Institute Hockey team*In <0.5% among 150k.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Industrial Engineering