Debashish Banerjee

Energetic, dependable, and self-motivated individual playing CxO role to bring in strategic direction and alignment on business priorities, initiatives and operations ensuring objectives and metrics always exceed expectations

· Established ground up many services, offerings, and practices throughout my career:

o India’s first actuarial outsourcing group as GE Insurance, establishing ~50 associates and creating an actuarial development career path to fellow actuaries (technical)

o Set up the actuarial consulting practice for Deloitte, ~100 practitioners including fellows and associate actuaries

o Established multiple new offerings around advance analytics like insurance analytics, workforce (HR) analytics, business simulations, data science and artificial intelligence offerings around retails, telecom and life sciences for Deloitte. Cumulative ~$35M top line impact by the initial sales, further strategized growth engines and new offerings to result in more than 20% year-on-year growth every year. The practices and offerings add up to ~$500M today

o Initiated the “Go-to-Market” strategy for analytics offerings in the Indian market. Influenced India CEO, did business development and created business for the Indian market, leading to ~INR 5Cr business annual.

o Established Innovation practice for Novartis, with 3 new patents / IP fillings within 3 years of establishment. Potential asset enhancement of ~$0.5B

· Extremely focused on building capability for the team and up skilling by launching various programs for the companies I have worked:

o Translator for data science: Hands on program where leaders can bring in business problems which can potentially be solved by data science techniques and train them to translate their business problem into data science problem statement, input data translation, performance and implementation translation.

o DIVES: Conceptualized a targeted program for Clinical Data Operations – called DIVES (Data Insights through Visual Exploration and Storyboarding) - this program won the bronze prize for the Brandon Hall Group excellence award in 2022 and is replicated in various LF’s at Novartis.

o Deloitte Difference: Dean for the Mid-Management leadership training @Deloitte – A simulation program for the 100+ mid-managers every year to train on management techniques, relationship building and story building techniques

o Dean for the Human Capital Fundamentals – A simulation program for the new hires of the human capital (HC) practices

o Client Service Experience for new hires at Deloitte Consulting focused on leadership, professionalism and client service

· Conceptualized, developed, facilitated, and instituted Deloitte Analytics Summit. A road map and strategy for 3 years built and executed to improve Deloitte branding in this space. 1st year ~300 footfall increased to ~2500 in 3 years and started to focus as client summit thereafter as an annual event called Future of AI

· Under corporate CSR, sponsored “Early Detection of Leprosy using AI” – Application with Algorithm is ready, and paper published by Indian Leprosy Journal (and conference) in Oct 2022

Published, and presented multiple (~50) thought leadership which has been recognized by many international bodies like CAS, SOA, GCA, NASSCOM, IIM A, ISI, IIT, Cypher, 3AI etc. Topics ranging from predictive modeling to data science application of such techniques in Indian market, and from business analytics, customer segmentation, insurance analytics, actuarial, nudge theory etc. to outsourcing strategies.

· Received the highest performance award for any GE business - Summit Award for managing my peers in absence of the immediate manager, and his supervisor. Carried out the growth plan without any hiccups.

• Associated with World Economic Forum (WEF), Niti Ayog and other government bodies as an industry forum to make Medicine from the Sky a reality for India. (2020- ongoing)
• Industry Board Member at ISB (SRITNE, an Indian School of Business initiative) (2020 - ongoing)
• Advisor to TropoGo – a startup that is first in India to create a marketplace for drones (2019 - ongoing), initiated multiple novel ideas including drone insurance products

• Moderator and Host of CIO Forums in India, which gathers majority of CIO’s from the industry to discuss emerging technologies and trends in the marketplace. (2019)
• Recognized as one of the top 10 most influential analytics and data science leader in India by Analytics India Magazine (2017, 2018) and 3AI forums (2022)
• Recognized and awarded with the Golden Leadership Award by Amity University for exemplary leadership in the marketplace (2016)
• Nominated member of the Board for the data science course run jointly by ISI, Kolkata; IIT, Kharagpur and IIM, Calcutta (2017 - 2018)
• Nominated member of Board of Studies at Amity University (2016- 2018)
• Awarded the most prestigious Summit award by the CEO, GE Insurance in 2004.
• First in the team to get Green Belt Certification (2002) using DMAIC methodology and saving greater than $1M
• Have been an Initiator and Proctor for the Hyderabad Center, Casualty Actuarial Society, USA
• 6th Rank Holder in UPSC exams (ISS’99) conducted by Govt. Of India to recruit senior public servant officers