Vice President & Head of AI Transformation | HDL - AGL (Hakuhodo)
Enterprise AI Strategy | Business Transformation | GenAI & Agentic AI | CXO Advisory | Data Platforms
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01 / Executive profile
Business strategy. Builder’s instinct.
AI transformation and business technology executive with 14 years of experience working at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise technology, data and AI innovation. Currently Vice President & Head of AI Transformation at HDL - AGL (Hakuhodo), leading enterprise AI strategy and partnering with CXOs and business leaders to translate business challenges into scalable GenAI, Agentic AI, ML, analytics and automation solutions. Experienced across the full transformation lifecycle - discovery, use-case prioritisation, business case and ROI, architecture, pilot, production deployment, adoption and governance - while retaining deep hands-on technical credibility.
14years of experience100+team members3,600+dealer websites
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02 / Leadership & role fit
From the question to the capability.
CXO advisory & business discovery: Directly engage senior business and technology leaders to understand operating-model, customer, growth, finance and control challenges; shape AI roadmaps and practical build-vs-buy decisions around measurable business outcomes.
Enterprise client exposure: Selected engagements across Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Tata Consumer, Perfetti Van Melle, HELL ENERGY, Reckitt, Idemitsu, Mitsubishi, MSIL/NEXA and other regional/global businesses.
AI innovation portfolio: Conceived and scaled AI products across synthetic consumer intelligence, AEO/GEO, agentic analytics, market-share prediction, stock / availability intelligence, automated reporting, e-commerce budget pacing, heatmap-led recommendations, FinOps, continuous control monitoring and audit/control intelligence.
Business + technology leadership: Lead a 100+ member technology organisation spanning engineers, data scientists and architects; bridge business, product, data and engineering teams from opportunity framing through production adoption.
Responsible AI & governance: Apply human-in-the-loop controls, model evaluation, access boundaries, auditability, performance monitoring and cost governance to enterprise AI solutions.
Commercial & ROI discipline: Own product economics, technology cost architecture, monetisation and value measurement so AI initiatives move beyond experimentation into sustainable enterprise capability.
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03 / Experience
Vice President & Head of AI Transformation
HDL - AGL (Hakuhodo) • Gurugram
Apr 2026 - Present
Enterprise AI strategy & portfolio leadership: Own the enterprise AI transformation agenda across strategic client and internal business contexts; define AI roadmaps, prioritise use cases by business value and feasibility, and guide initiatives from executive sponsorship through scaled adoption.
CXO advisory & business transformation: Partner directly with CEOs, CXOs and functional leaders to understand operating models, customer journeys and performance gaps, and translate them into practical GenAI, Agentic AI, ML, analytics and automation interventions.
AI operating model & organisation leadership: Lead a 100+ member technology organisation spanning engineering, data science and architecture; align business, product, data and engineering teams around reusable platforms, governance and delivery standards.
Governance, adoption & ROI: Establish human-in-the-loop controls, model evaluation, access and auditability patterns, cost governance and outcome measurement while driving stakeholder adoption, AI literacy and sustainable business value.
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04 / Experience
AI Transformation & Business Solutions Lead
HDL - AGL (Hakuhodo) • Gurugram
2024 - Mar 2026
CXO discovery, advisory & solution conversion: Led business-first discovery with CXOs and functional leaders across Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Tata Consumer, Perfetti Van Melle, HELL ENERGY, Reckitt, Idemitsu, Mitsubishi and MSIL/NEXA; converted process, growth and efficiency gaps into prioritised AI use cases, solution blueprints, business cases and execution roadmaps.
Reckitt - market-share prediction & commerce intelligence: Framed the business need around forward-looking market visibility and led the predictive-analytics solutioning for market-share movement using sales, offtake and commerce signals; surfaced likely drivers and decision inputs to support earlier commercial intervention.
Inventory & availability intelligence: Addressed stock-availability gaps by bringing stock fill rate, daily run rate (DRR) and stock-in-hand into a unified decision layer with stock-out / replenishment signals, enabling teams to identify availability risks earlier and act on priority SKUs and channels.
Automated reporting & management decision intelligence: Converted recurring manual business reporting into automated data pipelines, dashboards and insight summaries, reducing dependence on spreadsheet-led consolidation and giving leadership a faster, more consistent operating view.
E-commerce campaign budget pacer: Designed a planned-vs-actual media pacing and recommendation capability for e-commerce campaigns, flagging underspend / overspend and performance variance and guiding budget reallocation toward better-performing campaigns, channels and time windows.
Heatmap-led recommendation & optimisation: Designed recommendation logic using heatmaps and commerce / behavioural signals to identify performance hotspots, gaps and next-best actions for assortment, campaign and content optimisation, translating visual patterns into business recommendations.
Business-to-technology execution: Acted as the bridge from executive problem statement to delivery - defining data requirements, success metrics, build-vs-buy choices, architecture, pilot scope, governance and scaling path so AI initiatives moved from discussion to production adoption.
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05 / Experience
Solution Architect
Adglobal360 Pvt. Ltd. (Hakuhodo Group) • Gurugram, India
2018 - 2024
MSIL/NEXA digital ecosystem: Owned solution architecture across Maruti Suzuki Arena, Nexa, service platforms/apps, accessories commerce, genuine parts, True Value and 3D/AR configurator - combining customer journey, retail, dealer and enterprise-system integration at national scale.
Hyperlocal retail scale: Built and scaled a multi-tenant dealer platform to 3,600+ Arena and Nexa websites, owning architecture, performance and nationwide rollout.
Digital launches & commerce: Architected 5+ digital vehicle launches and 20+ B2B/B2C commerce platforms with payments, SAP/ERP, banking and government-API integrations; supported high-volume customer and transaction journeys.
Data, FinOps & AI foundation: Established cloud cost governance for mission-critical digital estates and initiated early ML/NLP programs including recommendation engines and intelligent automation, seeding the organization’s later AI practice.
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06 / Earlier career
The hands-on foundation.
Delivery Lead / Senior Engineer
Adglobal360 Pvt. Ltd. • Gurugram, India
2015 - 2018
Led full-stack delivery teams of 20+ engineers across enterprise CMS, commerce and marketing-technology programs; established delivery, code-quality and client-engagement practices adopted across teams.
Tech Lead
Mobikasa • Delhi, India
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Led offshore client engagements across discovery, FRD/SRS, architecture, code review and delivery of multiple web platforms.
Web Engineer
Panash India • Jaipur, India
Sep 2012 - Sep 2014
Built e-commerce platforms and a university ERP system; led a four-member engineering team across multiple client programs.