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Summary

Dynamic Executive Director with a proven track record at EY, specializing in AI development and responsible AI governance. Successfully built and led cross-functional teams, generating over $10M in innovative solutions. Expert in stakeholder engagement and change management, driving impactful sustainability initiatives and advanced data analysis for transformative outcomes.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Executive Director, AI, Innovation and CCaSS (Climate Change and Sustainability Solutions)

EY GDS
01.2021 - Current
  • Built AI Labs from scratch, assembling a cross-functional team of 100+ techno functional experts such as AI architects, developers, product managers, AI ethics leader and AI Business analysts
  • Worked with global stakeholders across super-regions and mobilized funding from both clients and internal leadership by aligning technology roadmaps to measurable value, ROI and business priorities, across levers such as Efficiency, Value for professionals, Value for Clients, Quality, new service creation
  • I generated and managed a portfolio of $10M+ across AI, innovation, and sustainability tech, spanning internal builds and client-facing solutions
  • Defined roadmap and deployed multiple AI-powered platforms across domains, from ESG agent ecosystems, compliance monitoring to audit automation
  • Designed and deployed GenAI agents for audit walkthroughs, ESG data reconciliation, financial risk assessments and memo generations
  • Built and scaled multi-agent architectures in cloud-native infrastructures (Azure)
  • Engineered intelligent workflows that enabled agent chaining, human-in-the-loop oversight, and real-time inferencing
  • Orchestrating change management and evangelizing AI by building adoption frameworks for AI solution adoption. EY.ai, and EYQ tools, and AI Copilot Studio across internal and client engagements
  • Responsible AI, Governance, and Ethics
  • Embedded Responsible AI Principles Across the AI Development Lifecycle: Spearheaded the integration of Responsible AI (RAI) frameworks throughout the entire AI/ML lifecycle—from initial problem scoping and algorithmic design, through iterative model training and validation, to deployment and continuous monitoring in production environments. This includes embedding fairness, transparency, accountability, and privacy-by-design principles to ensure compliance with ethical standards and regulatory mandates.
  • Advanced Model Evaluation and Governance to Mitigate Risks: Established robust model governance protocols to detect and manage model performance degradation, including concept drift and data distribution shifts, through continuous validation pipelines and real-time monitoring dashboards. Implemented drift detection algorithms and retraining triggers to combat model staleness and “LLM laziness”
  • Led upskilling initiatives across the firm on regulations such as EU AI Act and its conformity requirements for AI Quality Risk Management Systems (AI QRMs), enabling the firm to proactively align AI governance with emerging legal mandates and to operationalize compliance through robust documentation, impact assessments, and continuous control frameworks

Sustainability Technology Leader

EY
01.2021 - Current
  • Led Development of Industry-Leading ESG and Climate Tech Platforms
  • Spearheaded the end-to-end development of flagship sustainability platforms such as the EY Decarbonisation Workbench and the ESG Suite, and ESG Gap Analyser positioning EY at the forefront of data-driven ESG consulting. These tools leverage advanced AI, scenario modeling, and analytics to help clients measure emissions, optimize net-zero strategies, and comply with frameworks like CSRD, TCFD, and EU Taxonomy, giving EY a competitive advantage in the global climate-tech space.
  • Built and Scaled a Specialized Sustainability Tech Team from the Ground Up
  • Recognizing the gap in ESG technology capabilities, you established and scaled a 70+ member techno-functional team from scratch at GDS. With a unique blend of AI engineers, sustainability SMEs, data scientists, and innovation experts, this team now delivers over 100,000 hours annually, making GDS the strategic innovation and delivery hub for Global CCaSS solutions.
  • Engineered Innovation Pipelines for Future-Ready Sustainability Solutions
  • Established HackAssure and StartX—EY GDS’s first-of-their-kind innovation ecosystems—that enabled the incubation of AI, AR/VR, and GenAI solutions tailored to sustainability and audit. These platforms have secured over $900K in innovation funding and driven the creation of prototypes like AI-powered ESG benchmarking, sustainability storytelling, and agentic AI applications, accelerating the time-to-market for next-gen ESG tools
  • Future Focus Areas
  • Commercializing AI agents through pricing strategies including license models, value-based pricing, and outcome-linked billing
  • Developing agent-based sustainability platforms with real-time emissions intelligence, carbon pricing logic, and autonomous reporting
  • Driving regulatory-compliant audit copilots and ESG AI systems using explainable and traceable LLM architectures

Assistant Vice President, Innovation & Emerging Tech

Société Générale
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Head of Open Innovation
  • Set up the Open Innovation Lab by analyzing the technologies to experiment with, plan the budget and roadmap, established Academia and Start Up connects
  • Generating Ideas: How to find use cases and ensure a catalogue of ideas for transformation
  • Grass Root innovation – Getting people excited, create Innovation ground up by conducting events such as Hackathon, Start Up events – which are Global in Nature and involve 1000s of participants

AVP, Digital Transformation

Deutsche Bank
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Responsible for all KYC Products under Client Life cycle portfolio i.e - from Customer Onboarding to KYC Reviews to off-boarding. Manage KYC projects for India Portfolio, aligning with Global Program Objectives of digital transformation of highly manual KYC process

BUSINESS ANALYST_PROJECT MANAGER

Deutsche Bank
07.2014 - 07.2017
  • Design and deliver the Profit and Loss Application used by FO, MO and BO in DB
  • Lead the requirement gathering with the user community to design the new P&L platform
  • Drive the adoption of the PnL applications across Businesses and desks
  • Manage the PoCs and Pilot implementation with new businesses and regions
  • Manage Team of 20+ developers for delivery

PROCESS SUPERVISOR : BUSINESS TRANSITION

Deutsche Bank
07.2011 - 07.2014
  • AIM: Seamless migration of roles from global locations to India
  • Report on Project Plan Project Milestones, Toll Gates, key metrics
  • Ensure on time resourcing and Knowledge transfer

Education

MBA -

ICFAI Business School
Hyderabad
02-2009

Skills

  • AI development
  • Responsible AI
  • Data analysis
  • Project management
  • Change management
  • Stakeholder engagement

Timeline

Executive Director, AI, Innovation and CCaSS (Climate Change and Sustainability Solutions)

EY GDS
01.2021 - Current

Sustainability Technology Leader

EY
01.2021 - Current

Assistant Vice President, Innovation & Emerging Tech

Société Générale
01.2019 - 01.2021

AVP, Digital Transformation

Deutsche Bank
01.2017 - 01.2019

BUSINESS ANALYST_PROJECT MANAGER

Deutsche Bank
07.2014 - 07.2017

PROCESS SUPERVISOR : BUSINESS TRANSITION

Deutsche Bank
07.2011 - 07.2014

MBA -

ICFAI Business School

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