Technology Leader, Author, Speaker, Advisor - Data & AI driven SaaS products | Chief Architect, STSM & Master Inventor @ IBM Sushain Pandit is a seasoned technology leader, strategist and trusted advisor with broad concept-to-market experience acquired through shipped products within data & AI ecosystem, information management, operational risk mitigation, counter fraud, environmental intelligence, sustainability and related areas. Chief architect/CTO responsible for 15+ commercialized software products that drove $100MM+ in revenue, inventor with over 100 patents, and author of 25 articles, conference papers & book chapters, Sushain brings proven expertise to work with clients across multiple industries, provide focused direction to high-performing cross functional teams and offer strategic insight to inform product investment decisions. Currently, he is responsible for strategy, innovation, development and adoption of data & AI driven SaaS products in IBM Sustainability Software business, equipping clients with actionable intelligence to make decisions and mitigate operational risks. In past, he led development and adoption of several new data & AI focused product offerings like Environmental Intelligence Suite (2022), Weather Operations Center (2020), Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture (2019), Insight-as-a-Service (2017), Counter Fraud (2015), Reference Data Management (2013), Enterprise Information Management (2011), contributed to academic AI research, worked at small/medium sized tech companies and startups. In graduate school, he developed new algorithms for information extraction using a knowledge based Artificial Intelligence approach and built an open-source system that was accessed in over 50 countries - ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5671416 Sushain is an elected member of Academy of Technology, co-author of “Principled Reference Data Management for Big Data and Business Intelligence” (2017) and youngest Master Inventor in IBM’s history at the time of induction (2012) - large proportion of granted patents describe ideas around products that he has been closely involved with - ibmmasterinventor.com , sushain.com/blog Expertise: Technical strategy, Thought leadership, Executive leadership, Team building, Cross functional leadership, Product strategy, Coaching, Mentoring, Software architecture, Analytics platforms, Data management, Data governance, Machine learning, AI, NLP, Foundation Models, Semantic Web, Geospatial analytics, Patents, Hybrid cloud model, B2B SaaS. Note: All views are my own and do not reflect current or previous employers.