Anshu Jain — Co-Founder

I'm a programmer at heart, researcher by chance, live breath and drink data, NLP and analytics... and always lead people by example - be it building complex useful systems or moving office furniture. Finally pursuing my lifelong dream of building a product from scratch which builds on my years of building foundations in NLP, Data, Analytics and more. Before jumping into building my own company: > I led platform product and analytics at EthosLife, a Series-D Life Insurance Startup disrupting insurance with fluidless tech based on data-driven underwriting and online user acquisition. > Ran the Solution Engineering team for Entertainment Tech & Telco at Meta, supporting a 140 person sales team and other cross-functional partners on a $3B business. My team built products in areas of Lead Ads, B2B, Entertainment, Signals. > Spent 13 years at IBM Research and IBM Watson, working on areas of NLP, Text Analytics, Knowledge Graphs, starting as a researcher, graduating to a deparment manager and a STSM > Spent two years straight out of grad school at SAP Labs, building my foundations as a systems person, an architect an model driven and object oriented thinker!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused product leader with deep expertise in data analytics and NLP.

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Experience: 22 yrs

Career Highlights

Led analytics at a Series-D Life Insurance startup.
Built products for a $3B business at Meta.
Extensive experience in NLP and data analytics.

Work Experience

Outmarket AI

Co-founder | Chief Product & Technology Officer (2 yrs 8 mos)

Ethos

Senior Director - Head of Analytics and Data Science (7 mos)

Senior Director of Product Management (1 yr)

IBM

Principal Product Manager - AI and Data Science Offerings (1 yr)

Senior Technical Staff Member - STSM (5 yrs 3 mos)

Senior Manager, Chief Architect - Watson Knowledge Graph (4 yrs 3 mos)

Research Manager - IBM Research (1 yr 4 mos)

Global Technology Outlook Co-lead - IBM Research (1 yr)

Technical Staff Member, Senior Researcher (4 yrs 9 mos)

SAP Labs India

Development Specialist (2 yrs)

Graduate Intern (10 mos)

I.S.R.O. Space Application Center – Ahmedabad

Undergraduate Intern (5 mos)

Education

M.Tech at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

B.E at Nirma Institute of Technology

High School at Gnyan Dham High School

Primary School at LPS Public School, Jaykaypur

Anshu Jain

Co-Founder

San Jose, California, United States22 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Led analytics at a Series-D Life Insurance startup.
Built products for a $3B business at Meta.
Extensive experience in NLP and data analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused product leader with deep expertise in data analytics and NLP.

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Other Skills

OOPModeling ToolsArchitectureData AnalysisResearchWebDynproComputer ScienceJavaWeb ServicesC++Distributed SystemsEclipseProgrammingJava Enterprise EditionSoftware Engineering

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Experience

22 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Outmarket ai

Co-founder | Chief Product & Technology Officer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Right now at the ground floor understanding customer needs, designing the product and building out an MVP.

Ethos

2 roles

Senior Director - Head of Analytics and Data Science

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 · 7 mos

Leading all of Product Analytics, Business Analytics and Data Science for Ethos Life

Senior Director of Product Management

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

Product lead for EthosLife Insurance Platform including underwriting, risk and data platform of Ethos.

Ibm

6 roles

Principal Product Manager - AI and Data Science Offerings

Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr

After being in research and engineering roles for over 11 years at IBM, it was time for wearing a new hat in the product management organization of our AI Division. I am currently responsible for couple of IBMs key AI offerings at IBM including AI OpenScale and AutoAI

Senior Technical Staff Member - STSM

Jul 2014 – Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Leading end to end systems architecture for complex and first of a kind customer engagements for the Watson Discovery Advisor based solutions. I am responsible for an innovation agenda around the Watson Discovery Advisor product, investigating the next generation of Knowledge Systems, in particular, the Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Analytics Backends.

Senior Manager, Chief Architect - Watson Knowledge Graph

Promoted

Jul 2014 – Oct 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Starting as a Technical Lead of the Watson knowledge Graph Project, which I conceptualized and brought to product. I took various roles as the organization grew. I was the Manager, Senior Manager of the Knowledge Graph efforts, and expanded later into a Chief Architect of the overall Knowledge and Language capabilities in Watson.

Research Manager - IBM Research

Mar 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Anshu leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of Big Data Analytics Solutions for Complex Research and Discovery, at the Almaden Research Center of IBM, in the silicon valley

Global Technology Outlook Co-lead - IBM Research

Apr 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr

Anshu is currently working on a special assignment jointly leading the IBM Research program for creating the technical strategy of the company, called Global Technology Outlook, and is responsible for the end to end execution of this exercise from the call for proposals, reviews, assessment, trends and market analysis, broad strategy topic formulation, Venture Capitalist interlock, Senior Executive Reviews which will eventually result in the IBM Research Global Technology Outlook 2013 publication.

Technical Staff Member, Senior Researcher

Jun 2007 – Mar 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Software Development and Prototyping for the Information Management Group.
Data Analytics and Visualization, I joined as a technical staff and graduated to advisory and senior researcher roles

Sap labs india

2 roles

Development Specialist

Jun 2005 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs

Involved in development of the Web Based Modeling tool called Visual Composer (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/visualcomposer), for Composite Application development.
Worked on development of Tools for Eclipse based Netweaver Developer Studio
Worked on development of a framework for breakout components for Visual Composer, which involved a server side deployment framework, along with design time User Interface.
Key role in driving performance enhancements of the product
Worked on multiple components in the overall framework, helping create shadows for other developers, gaining understanding of the overall architecture as well as individual components
In depth understanding of end to end scenarios, and software infrastructures & landscapes for design and development of Very large scale Enterprise Applications
Represented SAP Labs India Twice consecutively in the worldwide SAP Developer Challenge (http://global.sap.com/corporate-en/news.epx?pressid=7109)

Graduate Intern

Jul 2004 – May 2005 · 10 mos

Mobile Applications Platform, SAP Labs India – 5 months
Worked on development of a prototype for the design time for the PDA Solutions, based on and integrated with the existing Design time
In depth understanding of Web Dynpro Design Time and Model Driven Runtime Architectures
IDE Tools, SAP Labs India – 6 months
Worked on development of a prototype WYSIWYG GUI Designer based on eclipse Graphical editing framework (GEF)
In depth understanding of MVC Based Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

I.s.r.o. space application center – ahmedabad

Undergraduate Intern

Dec 2002 – May 2003 · 5 mos

Design & implementation of a Tile Control Unit Card for a synthetic aperture antenna array in the RADAR Imaging Satellite (RISAT)
Circuit Design, Serial Communication Protocol Design and Interfacing, & source coding in C
SDLC included System specification, programming & debugging, using CASE tools