Ashish Shekhawat — CEO

My expertise lies in deriving business values out of AI and Data Science for consumer facing products and bringing UI/UX improvement to drive customer acquisition, activation and retention. Have used ML based algorithms for e-commerce search, recommendation, auto suggest/complete, underwrite customer and stop fraud. Have led teams and built B2C, B2B2C and B2B products for US, India, MEA and SEA geographies. B2C: Loan Marketplace with Partner Banks B2B2C: Helping Banks, Fintech, CUs to understand their customer base and increase CLTV B2B: KYC, KYB, Financial statement analysis, Underwriting, Fraud, Customer Onboarding, Analytics Skilled in launching delightful consumer & business products, growing them 100x, building scalable platforms. Excellent people management skills. Extensive experience leading and mentoring team of PMs Built SMS and alternate data-based underwriting model, led design of end-to-end lending platform. Scaled products to XX million users, YYY millions in disbursals Key skills: #Product Management • #Product Development and #Design • #Financial Services SME • API Driven Product Build • Customer onboarding/ KYC/AML • Credit Decision Making • AI and Data Driven Product Manager • #ExplainableAI • #MLOps • #Analytics • B2B #SAAS #product Specialties: #FirstPrincipleThinking, #Productmanagement #productbuilding, #ProblemSolving,#ProductStrategy, #MachineLearning, #AI, #ProcessImprovement Loves to read and talk about Mental Models | Stock Market | Web 3.0 | Fintech | Product Growth & Management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Manager with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

Experience: 10 yrs 8 mos

Career Highlights

Expert in AI and Data Science for consumer products.
Led teams to build scalable B2C and B2B products.
Extensive experience in financial services and product management.

Work Experience

CheQ

Director Product- AI products| Credit | Payments | Lending | Insurance (2 yrs 1 mo)

Simpl

Product - AI & Data | Credit Policy | Fraud | Collections (1 yr 3 mos)

Singapore Management University

Program Leader: AI/ML Strategy & Roadmap (3 mos)

Scienaptic AI

Head of Product - AI Product & Credit Policy (1 yr 4 mos)

IN-D - Power of AI

Product & Expansion Head - ME and SEA (1 yr 5 mos)

Green Tea with Ashish

Podcast Host (3 yrs)

Deloitte

Manager - Emerging Technologies (1 yr 2 mos)

PUNJAB & SIND BANK

Credit Policy Head for Unsecured Loans (1 yr 11 mos)

Tata Consultancy Services

ASE - Product Owner (1 yr 7 mos)

Education

EPGP at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Growth Levers at GrowthX®

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Great Lakes Institute of Management

Ashish Shekhawat

CEO

India10 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in AI and Data Science for consumer products.
Led teams to build scalable B2C and B2B products.
Extensive experience in financial services and product management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Manager with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

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BlockchainBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyClient RelationsConsultingCorporate FinanceCustomer Acquisition StrategiesCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Engagement and RetentionGrowth StrategiesMarketing StrategyMicrosoft OfficeMonetizationRPA

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Experience

Cheq

Director Product- AI products| Credit | Payments | Lending | Insurance

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Building Lending Vertical from scratch, leading collections, powering credit advisor and working on the Bill Discovery Vertical along with an amazing team.

Simpl

Product - AI & Data | Credit Policy | Fraud | Collections

Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Acquisition, Retention, Search and Recommendation, Underwriting, Collections, Data Products, Fraud and Credit Risk, Chargeback

Singapore management university

Program Leader: AI/ML Strategy & Roadmap

Nov 2021 – Feb 2022 · 3 mos

Scienaptic ai

Head of Product - AI Product & Credit Policy

Oct 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Heading Product Strategy and Build (Part of AI Innovation Lab)
Building ML powered and Analytics driven SAAS Credit & Risk Underwriting Product for Banks, Credit Unions, Insurance Companies and lending institutions helping them increase their distribution and bring down NPAs/Frauds.
Working with Data Science team to help clients create credit models that improves their portfolio approval while keeping the NPA's constant.
Building a scalable and robust platform that can quickly train, test, validate and serve ML models, providing the best business outcome for a given data set and business rules.
Computer vision products using NLP to extract insights from documents KYC, KYB, Financial Statement analysis

In-d - power of ai

Product & Expansion Head - ME and SEA

May 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Built AI powered products (Documents to Data to Decisions) for BFSI clients on following use cases:
B2C: Loan Marketplace with AECB and partner banks
B2B: Digital Banking, Customer Onboarding, Lending automation, Claims automation, Embedded Insurance etc.
Computer vision products using NLP to extract insights from documents KYC, KYB, Financial Statement analysis

Green tea with ashish

Podcast Host

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Everything Tech and Product

Deloitte

Manager - Emerging Technologies

Apr 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Embedded Finance, Digital Banking, Open Banking, Payments Advisory, Digitising Lending. Working with CXOs to build the next generation Financial Institutions
Morning Pitch launch in India with various initiatives around Startup Ecosystem single handedly driven.
Helping Startups in
Market penetration and expansion: Seeking opportunities to generate potential leads both among existing and new clientele.
Cross functional internal facilitation: Providing Partners and Directors across service lines with full support till final closure–which includes regular client interaction, active fee and scope negotiation.
Strategic planning and execution: Introducing cross functional services, by offering value propositions across industry, thus ensuring entrenchment of multi- disciplinary services within the client.
Relationship management: Building, deepening and sustaining both new and existing client relationships by “taking the firm” to the client. Manage expectations of both internal and external stakeholders.