Mahesh is a seasoned Data and AI leader having around 15 years of experience in delivering High-Impact, Data and AI-based solutions to solve complex business problems. He has a proven track record of providing strategic advantages to clients across various industries, resulting in increased sales and revenue, improved efficiency, and cost optimization. Mahesh is skilled in defining Data and AI strategies, Driving Innovation through development of Data and AI assets, and delivering data and AI-based solutions to address a wide range of business problems. In his current role, he is responsible for driving the ideation to implementation of data and AI-based solutions for clients' business problems. He also focuses on driving innovation and accelerating delivery for clients' digital transformation by developing industry-agnostic assets. Mahesh is part of Customer team B2B and B2C which helps clients in providing a seamless customer experience (CX) for their end customer and drive AI-based customer acquisition, customer engagement, customer retention, cross-sell, and up-sell. He leads various Business development (BD) activities, including responding to proposals (RFPs), GTM (Go To Market), pre-sales activities, costing, resourcing, recruitment, client management, stakeholder management, people management, and project management. Mahesh has established a data science Center of Excellence (COE) from scratch, recruiting top talent and leading end-to-end implementation of data and AI projects that cater to business needs. He has coached, mentored, and nurtured team members on various domain and industry nuances, data science use cases, tools, and technologies. Mahesh specializes in Fraud analytics, customer analytics (customer segmentation, customer experience, customer acquisition, customer engagement, customer retention), Marketing and Campaign analytics, intelligent automation, anomaly detection etc., using state of art AI technologies like Deep learning, Advanced NLP, NLU, NLG (LLM’s), Machine learning, Statistical Modeling and Cloud technologies. Mahesh is an IIT-ISB alumni and a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure (2X), and GCP Practitioner. He is also a certified competent communicator and competent leader by Toastmasters International.