Our leadership team

Our leaders are the realm of Affine's transformation journey. They inspire, instil passion and lead through innovation.

Manas Agrawal

Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO India

Vineet Kumar

Co-Founder, CEO US

Dr. Saivisveswar Karnam

Director

Ashish Maheshwari

EVP - CRO Americas

Rajesh Narayan

SVP - CRO RoW, Head of Partnerships & Alliances

Pankaj Kandhari

SVP - Delivery Management

Srinivasan Gururajan

VP – Finance

Sripathy Venkateswaran

VP - Head of AE Practices

Param Jeet

Senior Director - Data Science

Yadunath Sadasiva

Senior Director – India GCC

Tanu Verma

Director- Marketing

Aakash Agrawal

Director (India Business)

Saloni Singh

Director - HR

Saloni Singh

Director - HR

Aakash Agrawal

Director (India Business)

Bedanta Bordoloi

Director - Analytics Engineering

Prashanth Subbanna

Senior Director - Analytics Engineering

Navin Patel

Director – Recruitment

Ankit Agarwal

Director- US Sales

Mahesh Bhat

Director – Cloud Engineering

Abhishek Dutta

Director - Data Science

Priyankar Sengupta

Director – Business Analytics

Shuddhashil Mullick

Director – Data Science

Abhishek Dutta

Director - Data Science

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Manas Agrawal

Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO India

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Manas is a digital transformation leader, business builder, and entrepreneur at heart. As the CEO of Affine, Manas is responsible for encouraging the organization's values focus, promoting a client-first culture, and ensuring Affine's sustainable growth through driving strategic, transformational, and impact-driven AI capabilities and solutions to businesses throughout the world. His inspiring professional journey as an analytics curator and transformer empowers him with a unique understanding of integrating AI for business transformation and driving innovation.

Vineet Kumar

Co-Founder, CEO US

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The Chief Solutions Architect & Co-Founder at Affine, Vineet is an AI and Technology visionary with a passionate inclination to Data Science. Vineet's deep insight into the evolving technologies of the world drives the innovation focus in Affine's solutions, ensuring that the team is well-trained in the cutting-edge technologies of tomorrow. His expertise transforms the decision-making process of Fortune 500 enterprises through the implementation of advanced analytics, AI, ML, and cloud solutions, powering innovations in AI, engineering, and the cloud, delivering transformation for businesses and their customers.

Dr. Saivisveswar Karnam

Director

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Dr. Sai has played a vital role in the progression of Affine's journey since it's inception. Furthermore, he serves on the board of an ethical commission that evaluates clinical research studies. He is well-versed in the realms of corporate management, economics, and investment strategy, in addition to his foundation in clinical research and academic insights. Dr. Sai has proven analytical abilities and play a pivotal role in making Affine a standard for others to emulate.

Ashish Maheshwari

EVP - CRO Americas

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Ashish has specialized in analytics, big data, and data science for over two decades. In his role as Executive Vice President of Affine, he oversees the company's operations on a global scale. He has a strong foundation in analytical modeling and a high level of expertise in industry-level solutions, leading him to develop solutions for businesses that are both efficient and quick to implement.

Rajesh Narayan

SVP - CRO RoW, Head of Partnerships & Alliances

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Rajesh has over 28 years of rich experience in sales and has established diverse, large-scale collaborations in the areas of capacity and capability development with Fortune 500 businesses. He is a seasoned leader, customer relations professional, and digital transformation expert with extensive ML, DL, and AI knowledge in establishing the digital journey for several big enterprises across industries.

Pankaj Kandhari

SVP - Delivery Management

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Pankaj Kandhari has accumulated expertise in Analytics, Decision Sciences, Engineering and Operational Processes over the past 19 years. He is adept at building and supervising large teams and excellently serving clients worldwide. As Senior Vice President, Pankaj oversees global fulfilment management at Affine. He is in sole control of engagements with Fortune 100 organizations delivering multi-million dollar impact on top-line/bottom-line in diverse verticals, like Retail/Technology/Ecommerce/Gaming/Product companies. He has been an entrepreneur twice in his career.

Srinivasan Gururajan

VP – Finance

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Srinivasan Gururajan is the VP of Finance at Affine. He has specialized in finance and accounting as a controller and in commercial business responsibilities for over 39 years. He has extensive expertise in the areas of commercial and internal control accounting, as well as policy and procedure development, auditing, and internal control. In addition, he is a pioneer in deploying ERP system rollouts, including MfgPro, Sun System, etc. With his well-versed knowledge in this field, he ensures that the company’s operations align with the financial future and strategies planned out for the company.

Sripathy Venkateswaran​

VP - Head of AE Practices

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Sripathy has over two decades of experience and has explored a diverse range of cross-functional disciplines. He has diversified expertise that includes QA, Application Development, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Cloud DW development and Migration, etc. Sripathy leads the business’s Analytics Engineering division through all efforts that drive business performance and help current and potential customers in easing their daily technical challenges.

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Dr. Param Jeet

Senior Director - Data Science

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Param Jeet is an AI leader with 17 years of extensive experience in the AI field and expertise in consulting with startups and enterprises in eCommerce, Education, Finance, and Telecom. Param has published a book on Quantitative Finance and several scholarly computational engineering articles in reputed international journals. He is presently in charge of driving Affine's AI, ML, and DL-driven solutions to bring the business to the next level on a global scale.

Yadunath Sadasiva

Senior Director – India GCC

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Yadunath Sadasiva has 20 years of experience in sales, business development, and account management roles. He has been pivotal in nurturing, growing, and scaling global development centers in India. A few of the GDCs he has set up are for Fortune 100 companies in the Commodities, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Hi-tech, and Supply chain domains. His experience in this field of building relationships and understanding customer trends helps to achieve sales targets and expand our customer base.

Tanu Verma

Director- Marketing

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Tanu Verma oversees and stirs marketing strategies and efforts to strengthen Affine's market position and achieve desired business goals. Her expertise in marketing, business growth, lead engagements, and brand forecasting executes in the trenches and provides our management team with strategic leadership from a market and product perspective. She is a highly flexible and adaptive out-of-the-box thinker with sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Aakash Agrawal

Director (India Business)

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Aakash is an integral part of the Affine family; he has over 12 years of sales experience and heads the India Business for Affine. With his expertise in growing business operations and analytics teams to lead cross-functional projects leveraging advanced data modelling and analysis techniques, Aakash is a key asset in Affine’s growth efforts and in achieving other critical business outcomes. In his previous avatar, he worked with leading Indian companies, heading new product launches, operations, sales, and MIS.

Saloni Singh

Director - HR

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Saloni is responsible for the people function at Affine. She and her team have conceptualized all people policies, processes, and culture initiatives. Saloni has grown the talent headcount from 65 to 300+ across Affine’s India and international locations and is responsible for attracting top-notch talent to Affine. Her in-depth expertise in HR roles enables her to lead, direct, and develop the business, ensuring legal compliance and implementation of the organization's mission and talent strategy.

Bedanta Bordoloi

Director - Analytics Engineering

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Bedanta has over 18 years of IT consulting experience, of which the last 10 years he has been leading different geographically dispersed engineering teams. He has extensive expertise consulting multiple clients simultaneously on different data engineering projects, ranging from cloud data warehouse migration and traditional data warehousing to business intelligence dashboarding and extensive data marketing campaigns.

Prashanth Subbanna

Senior Director - Analytics Engineering

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Prashanth Subbanna is the Senior Director- of the Analytics Engineering Group, Affine. With 18+ years of management consulting, solution implementation, and leadership experience, he also has expertise in designing and developing data-driven analytics solutions to drive business and operational strategies.

Navin Patel

Director – Recruitment

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Navin is an expert in the Talent Acquisition domain with almost two decades of experience and an innovative strategist who has risen to the top of a diverse, global matrix organization that cherishes ethnicities. He brings an excellent blend of expertise and exposure earned from TA Ops, talent sourcing, recruitment delivery, and formulating staffing plans with the leadership. Navin has built, coached & led high-performing large teams and plays a key role in defining and implementing new initiatives within the Talent area of the organization.

Ankit Agarwal

Director- US Sales

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Analytics professional with 13+ years of experience, Ankit Agarwal, the Director of US Sales at Affine has a proven record in building highly scalable and resilient systems for data, analytics, and applications - on - On cloud and on-premises. He is an expert in building teams, managing development, and working with stakeholders within and outside the company. He has a nuanced understanding of consulting with Fortune 500 companies in the US and APAC, helping them transform their teams and businesses.

Mahesh Bhat

Director– Cloud Engineering

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Mahesh has been specializing in analytics for over two decades. He has a keen interest in emerging technology and is always determined to gain additional learning in the data analytics sector. Currently, Mahesh is focusing on expanding our cloud partnership and expertise with all the leading service providers in the international market and establishing Affine as a global industry leader.

Abhishek Dutta

Director - Data Science

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Abhishek is a seasoned Data Science and AI Leader with 16+ years of rich and extensive experience in delivering strong controllership, decision support, and leading functions like applications of AI and Machine Learning in Manufacturing Processes, Marketing Automation and Campaign Management, Revenue and Pipeline Management, Thought-Leadership and Business Consulting. Abhishek has also been quoted by multiple business magazines, including the likes of LIVEMINT (Wall Street Journal) and Business Standard.

Priyankar Sengupta

Director – Business Analytics

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Priyankar Sengupta is seasoned analytics professional and Director of – the Business Analytics Group at Affine with more than 14 years of experience in executing and leading delivery and improving processes in delivery and account management. He is responsible for managing the delivery of multiple accounts along with Sr. Principals and Principals by ensuring process adherence, standardization, and robust quality assurance mechanisms are in place.

Shuddhashil Mullick

Director – Data Science

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Shuddhashil brings almost two decades of experience in driving actionable analytics and consulting solutions across diverse domains like IT, Gaming, Marketing, BFSI, and Retail. At Affine, he leads the delivery function and is responsible for growing and improving the P&L, which comprises all clients in the US geography. He is also responsible for their successful digital transformation through innovative, custom-designed offerings. His expertise in analytical strategy and roadmap design help teams understand business problems, translate them into data science or data analytics projects, and appropriately prioritize and execute them.

Manas Agrawal

CEO & Co-Founder

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