That would have been nice.. We help them with collecting their receivables. In 2022, she became part of Kearneys. He comes with over 15 years of experience spanning roles in CPG consulting, account management, and building global partnerships and strategy. He completed his BE in computer science from the University of Pune, MS in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Abhishek (Abhi) Yadav is a part of the senior leadership team at Fractal. It was very difficult. He has an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MMM from Northwestern University Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and B.E. Amit has over two decades of experience spanning business development, consulting, and delivery. Bullish about growth, it has plans to hire 2000 people this year. Puneet Bhatia is the Co-Managing Partner for TPG Capital Asia and the head of TPG Capital India. While at Kearney, she was awarded their top three Firm Awards for Innovation, Thought Leadership and media visibility. He has a bachelors degree in commerce from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and a Masters in Business Administration (International Business) from K.J. He also successfully led the analytics portfolio for Sky Premiums and Sky Products. He has also incubated and led Fractals retail & customer experimentation product business in various industries. Rohini joined Fractal to set up the Global Talent Acquisition Capability and lead Special Initiatives. Srikanth serves on the board of Qure.ai which has recently received 16MM USD in funding less than three years after incubation. He has appreciation towards creating reusable solutions and had co-created an AutoML platform, brAIn.ai, for driving acceleration and standardization in modelling workflows. We have been profitable throughout and generating cash from the early 2000s. Think about it that way. Sign up for Virtual Chats here. She is also the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap. Anindya has a keen interest in enabling every human decision from the lenses of AI, engineering, and design. His career spans Wall Street in New York and Indian markets in Mumbai. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, MBE from Delhi University and BA (Eco) Hons from Sri Ram College of Commerce. Before Fractal, Gaurav worked at Tech Mahindra, Schindler Elevators, and ABB. Fractal turns unicorn: Interview with cofounder Srikanth Velamakanni Velamakanni saidback thennobody knew analytics nor did they want it, and it was all fine. Before Fractal, he worked with GE, IBM, and Nielsen. He has designed a 3P flywheel growth model of People, Products, and Partnerships, with customers in the center is widely recognized to drive SaaS growth.. So looking at that, what we see is one is end-to-end problem solving for clients. Anindya is a Client Partner and offshore delivery lead in the insurance and healthcare practice. His answers are precise and, to be honest, a relief for a journalist looking for a clean quote. And that is the attraction. He has a bachelors degree in Technology from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, and completed a senior executive finance program from London Business School. Rohan serves as a Director on the Boards of ThoughtWorks, EVRY and GlobalLogic. Scaling analytics and AI with enterprise IT, Delivering continuous machine learning models & automation pipelines, Transforming enterprises through finance intelligence, Accelerated data to decision transformation, Machine learning and Natural Language Processing. Srikanth Velamakanni Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 49K followers 500+ connections Join to follow BARC India Indian Institute of. Kathy is published in industry-leading publications, including Forbes, Ad Age, Ad Week, eMarketer, CMO.com, MediaPost, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, GigaOM, Mobile Marketer, Venture Beat, and Internet Retailer. He also acts as a strategic advisor/angel investor to a few start-ups. It has taken 21 years to reach $1 billion, whereas some companies have been able to do that in 6 months. He has previously worked at TCS, Mu Sigma, and MarketsandMarkets. Srikanth Velamakanni on LinkedIn: Best founder of a Unicorn? I find it It was also while at ICICI Bank that Velamakanni and CBO-buddy Agarwalboth deeply involved in financial math in their jobsdecided that there was potential to use math to help businesses such as banking do better. So I'm uncomfortable with the choices that Fractal has made. Along with working closely with the team at Fractal, Beth currently chairs the Recreational Equipment, Inc, (REI) Board of Directors, as well as, serving as a member of the Board of Directors for Heartisan Foods. Forbes recently ranked Fractal as the 7th best-funded analytics company in the world, the Great Place to Work Institute rated them as the Best Company to work for in the analytics industry, Fractal was also called out as a Cool vendor in analytics by Gartner, Forrester rated them as a Top provider for Text analytics for their product dCrypt. Srikanth Velamakanni Fractal's mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and to use the power of AI to help the world's most admired Fortune 100 companies. Akhil has also developed subrogation models from unstructured data using text mining algorithms and HPC tools. He has led high-performing sales and account management teams and has been the single point with end-to-end accountability to drive portfolio growth and develop meaningful relationships. In 2000, he co-founded with Pranay Agrawal and 3 others, Fractal Analytics, a company operating in U.S., U.K. and India. Following. He is passionate about developing problem-solving approaches based on first principles thinking and converting ambiguous canvas into structured roadmaps. I think that that also makes it clear that this is a big space, and it is here to stay. He is currently building Eugenie, an enterprise AI-SaaS platform for operational intelligence. What does the roadmap look like from here? Prior to DBC, Dave was Sr. Director of Marketing Analytics in Googles Ads business, where his teams evaluated marketing program effectiveness and developed machine-learning models to route leads to sales. Suneet is a Client Partner in APAC Practice, leading our partnership with a HealthTech and Consumer Goods major. Very, very smart and capable people. Amit is passionate about delivering strong business value through analytics transformation, driving implementation and adoption, and leading to sustained incremental top-line or bottom-line. He has a keen interest in ensuring that the best of human and machine intelligence is used to drive higher levels of objectivity and reduce bias in decision-making. And most of all, entrepreneurship in India is low-risk entrepreneurship. Srikanth Velamakanni, Fractal Analytics Ltd: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets Live Now Bloomberg TV+ Bloomberg Markets The Close Romaine Bostick breaks down the day's top stories. Deb has been listed by Women Inc. as one of the 50 most powerful female board directors. In those early days this was such a new space. Most recently, Campbell retired from Giant Eagle as the President of Supermarkets leading during a time of rapid growth defined by a period of record comp store sales, market share expansion and transformational growth in the e-commerce business. Suneet has consulted clients in the TMT and retail sectors and driven multi-million dollar per annum gains from digitalization in customer-facing and operations functions. He further has the experience of building AI systems for cancer research for Celera Genomics, Mayo clinic, Correlogic systems, and others. Disclaimer: Fractal is a strategic investor in Analytics Vidhya. Ever since, he has been serving as a pro bono Technology Advisor & Consultant for the Government of Karnataka Forest Department, delivering data-driven solutions for the conservation of forests and environment sustainability. She has been quoted in over 300 periodicals globally and appeared on National television in the U.S. and Mumbai Live. Srikanth co-founded Fractal Analytics in 2000, well before analytics and AI were entire industries. Founded in 2000, Mumbai and New York-based Fractal Analytics raised 360 million dollars from a private equity firm, TPG Capital Asia and became the second un. Sankar is a member of the executive leadership team at Fractal and global practice leader for Banking, Insurance, Healthcare & Technology. He has a keen interest in designing analytics frameworks for solving complex business problems, combining business acumen with applied analytics. A member of the NASSCOM Executive Council Srikanth serves as a subject matter expert on data and AI. Srikanth Velamakanni's Post Srikanth Velamakanni Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics 1mo Report this post Report Report. His career spans Wall Street in New York and Indian markets in Mumbai. We see great opportunities in areas such as healthcare and supply chain, to name a few. Something that has been covered a lot in the media recently as well is entrepreneurship. Her main area of expertise is managing complex technology businesses in highly matrixed organizations. A move to ICICI Banks structured products group followeddue to lifestyle issuesand this is where Srikanth and Pranay Agarwal, eventually a co-founder at Fractal, worked on Indias first collateralized bond obligation (CBO) in 1999. As a Senior Vice President at 21. Ideas worth spreading. He is experienced in building Petabyte scale data lakes and data warehouses, internet-scale, real-time analytics platforms, SaaS solutions, and product engineering. He considers himself a lifelong student of mathematics, behavioural economics, neuroscience and consumer behavior. In geometry or nature, a fractal is a never-ending, self-similar pattern. Ms. Mulligan is the former Chair, President & CEO of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) and was a member of the companys Board of Directors. The son and grandson of Army officers, McChrystal graduated from West Point in 1976 as an infantry officer, completed Ranger Training, and later, Special Forces Training. Ritesh heads technology at Senseforth.ai as the Chief Technology Officer and drives the product strategy and technology roadmap. He holds the CPCU and ARM designations. Deb authors a blog: Run2Digital. She has also served on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as Chair of ACLI, and as a director at ARCH Capital, Catalyst, and The Economic Club of New York. How do you use fancy math to help companies make money? Akhil has also developed subrogation models from unstructured data using text mining algorithms and HPC tools.. Over the last 11 years at Fractal, Srikanth has worked with Fortune 1000 companies (in consumer banking, credit cards, retail, telco, insurance and consumer packaged goods industries) in institutionalizing analytics in their organizations to . And things didnt improve. Finally, two partners walked out. Guha is the product and technology leader for Samya.ai business unit. Prophetic: In March 2007, Velamakanni's company built a mathematical cricket . What this teaches me is the value of perseverance and the value of grit. It helps us in investing in more products. Order, chaos, and emotional intelligence: How Fractal turned unicorn The longer the period of delinquencythe longer the borrower struggled to pay off the loanthe better the chances of recovering future loans. In his prior responsibilities at Fractal, he focused on account management and delivery for a leading loyalty firm and was running their analytics CoE from India. He comes with industry experience to drive end-to-end sales and business operations and franchisee networks, including network setup and growth. Dinesh is a Client Partner and member of the APAC leadership team. She has a keen interest in using AIML and analytics to drive people decisions that impact employees through their career journey within the organization. Deb is a thought leader on topics including leadership, digital transformation, and diversity. Vikram has a keen interest in using analytics and artificial intelligence to solve complex business problems and analyze structured and unstructured data assets. Are there any regrets over the whole 21-year journey? She has been awarded Forbes Top 11 Women Who Started Amazing Companies and Americas Most Promising Companies (Qualia & Dstillery). Prior to Fractal, Amit worked at Kotak Mahindra Bank across business development and product management roles and at Cedar Management Consulting. He is a thought leader, driving business transformation through AI, engineering, and design. Anindya is a Client Partner and offshore delivery lead in the insurance and healthcare practice. He combines his Wharton MBA with executive training from Harvard and Stanford. Like (97) Share. He was also the Chairman of the Bombay chapter of the World Presidents Organisation (WPO). She was previously named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the Automotive Business by Automotive News, outstanding engineer at Kettering and Purdue University, where she earned bachelors masters degrees, respectively, in electrical engineering. He completed his BE in computer science from the University of Pune, MS in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Sagar is a Client Partner and part of Fractal Dimension focused to solve complex problems using AI, engineering, cognitive sciences, and human-centered design. Bhaskar is a Client Partner and part of the Asia-pacific leadership team, driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients across industries. Before joining Kearney, Andrea spent 22 years at KPMG, New York as a Financial Services consulting partner. Mr. Bhatia was born, grew up in and is based in India. Prior to that, Rohan was a consultant at McKinsey and Co. in India. Mrunali is passionate about ensuring digital programs are set up for success with a design first approach driving high adoption. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Shashank spent four years as a strategy consultant with Monitor Company in their London office. Velamakanni recounts start-up stories of sleeping on the floor of their one-bedroom apartment-cum-offices floor and then when the office expanded into the bedroomdozing off precariously stretched out over three chairs. Akhil has played a significant role in shaping and evangelizing Fractals thinking in data science with clients. Mrunali leads the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) global practice at Fractal. Finally when he is ready, Velamakanni explains: If I were to look back at it allin hindsightit was all ego. In addition, he serves as the Chairman of Dasra (leading not-for-profit in India), Trustee of the Apax Foundation, member of the South Asia Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and the Vice-Chancellors Circle of Advisers for India for the University of Cambridge. 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Thank you, Fractalites, women and men, for making Fractal a great place to work for women for the third year in a row. Vijay is the head of AWS practice and a retail tech leader. How does it feel and what is next for Fractal? He has a keen interest in democratizing data analytics and ML applications. India is a highly math-oriented country and we produce a ton of engineers every year. Someone to help me with being a CEO. Prithwish has also worked extensively in primary and secondary sales, BTL marketing campaigns, and supply chain. Free catering for all employees came from SAS and soon, taking a leaf out of Googles book, a 10% personal project time may be implemented, Insecurities Of A Young CEO:Sometimes when I am out seeing a movie with the family, I look at myself in T-shirt and jeans and wonder if thats appropriate CEO attire. He did his Masters in Industrial Technology from Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, USA. His passion for AI and analytics has made him a thought leader in the space and an admired public speaker. Manish has the expertise in building and implementing IT security strategy, gap assessment and risk mitigation, and the transformation of operations. Before Fractal, he pioneered high-frequency algorithmic trading in India with Getco/KCG. First, Velamakanni gives me the analogy he uses to explain to students what its all about: Imagine you leave home for office at a certain time everyday. Ed is still active in the business. Arpan specializes in re-imagining front-office functions customer experience, sales, marketing, digital and care. He has completed his MBA in marketing from the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, and has a bachelors degree in technology and computer science from Kurukshetra University. Prithwish has a keen interest in enabling client value realization through the ethical use of data and analytics. Think of the IT industry. Wanting to be public has other benefits, which like I saidislong-term thinking. Pavan is passionate about selling large and complex deals to Fortune 500 clients based in the US and Europe across industries. He is focused on enabling clients on the digital supply chain transformation, enabling data to decisions across supply chain functions, and driving the adoption of analytics solutions. Previously, she has also played consulting leadership roles for Fortune 500 companies in the hospitality, insurance, and CPG industries. Previously, Shelly built Samya.ai as the founder and CEO. Sign Up page again. Honestly, I don't feel that those make sense to me. Her work has appeared in top-tier publications including Fortune, Bloomberg, and Huffington Post. Hemant is passionate about creating algorithmic solutions for automated quantitative trading. Because I don't think it (ed-tech) is a winner-takes-all market. He has been an advisor to various Indo-US startups and now looking to grow in the US and Europe. Before Fractal, Yash has led multiple large engagements in IBM, Mphasis, Wipro, and Ramco Systems. Her expertise spans marketing, revenue growth, digital commerce, innovation, consumer and demand analytics. So the way we visualise it is that in the not-so-distant future, many decisions that companies will make will have AI, analytics and algorithms involved inthem. AV: Can you recommend a couple of top books on entrepreneurship for anyone who wants to get started? Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several product lines within the company including Cuddle.ai, Eugenie.ai and Qure.ai. Fractals mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and to use the power of AI to help the worlds most admired Fortune. Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Neal Analytics. Shailendra is the Chief Growth Officer at Fractal. We should have been more ambitious and taken bigger risks!. He also actively follows US politics and American late-night talk shows, such as Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Hassan Minhaj, and Jimmy Kimmel. During his tenure at BT, he completed the UK rollout of the superfast fibre and started the deployment ultrafast fibre. He has a keen interest in designing experiments in business applications, ML at big data scale, optimization methods, unsupervised learning methods, entityresolution. As I said, we see opportunities in a number of different places and we aim to build products across each of these areas of interest. Is it the increasing investor interest the space has seen, or is it driven by other factors? Tell us what youre interested in and well send you talks tailored just for you. He was earlier part of investment banking teams at Morgan Stanley in Asia and Goldman Sachs in London. She has 22 years of experience, having served in progressive leadership positions with some notable global retail brands in both industry and consulting. Prithwish is a Client Partner for Fractals retail practice. He has done his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Technology from Bengaluru University. It was an interesting job, Velamakanni recalls, and he got a chance to work with clients such as Enron and in sectors such as aircraft finance. A results-oriented, strategic thinker working within the C Suite, Andrea has a distinguished career as a consultant, business advisor, banker, and operating executive. He is keen on making analytics and data science consumable, by bridging the analytics-business value chains with problem structuring, design thinking, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration. When he speaks he leans forward purposefully, his suit jacket rolling up into folds behind his neck, his palms pressing on to the tabletop. All rights reserved. At Fractal, Shelly is focused on building new geography, helping in the acquisition and growth of the select practice, and contributing towards the billion-dollar revenue company across services businesses. Recognizing that companies today are experiencing parallels to what he faced in the war theater, McChrystal established this advisory services firm to help businesses challenge the hierarchical, command and control approach to organizational management. He has also co-developed two patent solutions in the areas of predictive analytics and resource optimization. Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Her responsibility for the global Walmart Technology portfolio included both Information Systems Division(ISD) and Global Back Office Solutions. He led the 15billion acquisition of EE, launched BT Sport, expanded BTs cyber security practice and championed BTs social purpose agenda. Over the years, Gaurav has honed his specialization in cross-functional team collaboration across the business and central analytics verticals. He is driven by the belief that the more we understand the inscrutable algorithm in our brains, the better will be the technology we develop for our machines. Dylan is the leader of Neal Analytics andhas over 24 years of experience spanning roles in new market entry, entrepreneurship, team building, consulting, engineering, and design. They tried really hard to keep the car by making payments somehow. At Fractal, he is playing the new game that is emerging at the intersection of human and machine intelligence. Before that, he led Analytics at Square, where his team used data to help Square manage risk and improve its products and services for businesses and consumers. At Progressive Insurance he served as a Division President and Director of Product Development. But to me, I think being public has a lot of other benefits of being accountable to all your stakeholders including shareholders, clients, employees, suppliers and the world at large. India employs four and a half million people. |View Academic Calendar 2022-23here. He has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Bachelor of Engineering, Control Systems from Madras University, and Big Data Opportunities, Challenges & Applications certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He comes with over 16 years of experience in executing and implementing projects in predictive analytics and reporting-enabled solutions. The road to success is not a straight line. We want to be in that place where a vast majority of the Fortune 100, 200, 500 companies trustFractal to do that for them. He has extensive experience working in the technology space within the retail domain, across customer experience platforms, CMPs, merchandising, and vendor and supply chain management. India employs four and a half million people. Previously, Vijay has worked at Manthan (Algonomy) and in Red Prairie (Now Blue Yonder). Founder of Fractal Analytics, Inc. and Fractal Analytics Pvt Ltd., Srikanth Velamakanni currently occupies the position of Chairman of ideaForge Technology Ltd. and Executive Vice Chairman & Group CEO at Fractal Analytics, Inc., Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Fractal Analytics Pvt Ltd. (a subsidiary of Fractal Analytics, Inc.). He has also incubated and led Fractals retail & customer experimentation product business in various industries. Soudip has nearly two decades of experience spanning product development, research, AI, and enterprise software development roles. Also, decision-making was slowing down., A bad decision taken in time, Velamakanni says, is better than none at all.
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