Prof. PK Prasanna Kumar — CEO
PK dons several roles - successful serial entrepreneur, practitioner & adjunct professor. He has deep love & understanding for numbers, finances and the mathematics of growth. For over 25 years he has helped raise capital, build products, platforms; grow businesses. He is deeply respectful of talents, traditions & kind-hearted people. Managed over 150+ Hospitals, 4000 Pharmacies, 500 Health Centers, Globally. He has consistently won numerous large deals and delivered on those promises thru technology leadership & talent management with a touch of innovation at global level. Pioneered Y2k &; dotcom led growth; creation of the onsite-offshore Model, Mobile apps, Social Media Revolution. Currently leveraging the power of AI & Cloud Computing to transform Healthcare, EduTech & Marcom National Bestselling Author of Management Books Book Title: Project Management A Comedy of Errors, Year 2005 (ISBN 8190255320) Book Title: Creativity Simplified - A Handbook on Creativity & Innovation, Year 2003 (ISBN 8190255304) Book Title: Engineering the Metaverse: Enabling technologies, platforms and use cases (Computing and Networks) (ISBN-13, 978-1839538803) Book AI in Finance ISBN 979-8-90231-811-8 Strategy, Governance, Risk in the Age of Bounded AI Autonomy Studied @ World's Best Universities 1. Harvard University 2. MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. Berkeley University of California 4. Dartmouth College 5. University of Texas, Austin 6. Stanford University 7. Cornell University 8. BITS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science 9. CFI - Corporate Finance Institute PK is a Guru & Adjunct Professor for- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning- Cloud Computing, Data Engineering & Digital Transformation- Innovation Management Sector Agnostic: Finance, Healthcare, Energy, Smart Cities, Ecommerce Functional Experience: Executive Management : Large Enterprise & Relationship Selling, Strategic Program Management, Alliances; Partnership Technical Skill Area : Practitioner with Hands-On skills & expertise in Platform Innovations, AIML, Big-Data, DevOps, Cloud(Hybrid), Quantum Computing, Applied Mathematics, Algorithm Design, High-Availability Services, Reliability Engineering, Deep Learning, Network Programming, Social Network Analysis. PK's Published Research Papers Stanford, Cornell Arxiv : arxiv.org/pdf/2112.13432.pdfSSRN AI-Powered Annotation Pipelines for Stabilizing LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2512.13714 Pk runs incubation program for AI & tech startups; Helps companies with Investment; Tech Advisory, Customer acquisition, Product / Platform development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and AI transformation expert with extensive experience in executive management.
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Experience: 29 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- Executive Management
Career Highlights
- Over 25 years of experience in capital raising and business growth.
- Pioneered AI and cloud transformations in healthcare and education.
- National bestselling author with multiple management books.
Work Experience
QSVA
Board Advisor (4 mos)
owow
Board Advisor (1 yr 4 mos)
TheAgentic
Board Advisor (1 yr 4 mos)
The AI Trust Foundation
Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer (1 yr 4 mos)
University of Southern California
Chair & Judge - CSEF 2025 (Computational Systems: Medical, Senior Division) (11 mos)
Udemy
Professor & Instructor (2 yrs 4 mos)
LifeAmore
Board Member - LifeAmore, America's Healthcare AI Company, Healthcare Innovator (2 yrs 4 mos)
AI Visualize
Board Member & AI Guru (2 yrs 4 mos)
Business Optima
Broadridge - Snr. Project Management & Platforms Specialist (2 yrs 11 mos)
Bank of America - Snr. Project Manager & Platform Specialist (2 yrs 11 mos)
Wells Fargo - Snr. Project Manager & Platform Specialist (2 yrs 11 mos)
LTX Bond Trading Platform - Snr. Project Manager (2 yrs 11 mos)
Senior Exec & Chief AI Trainer (6 yrs 4 mos)
Chief Data Scientist, PMO & Board Member (2 yrs)
LifeScan
Consultant - Healthcare Innovations (2 yrs 11 mos)
Innovaccer
Advisor Consultant, Sr. Vice President, Global Strategy Leader (1 yr)
Thomas Innovation
Board Member - Successful Valuation & Exit (3 yrs)
Chief Technology Officer (4 yrs)
Snr.VP & Practice Head - Healthcare Excellence - Providers, Payers & Ecosystem Partners (2 yrs 4 mos)
Rights & Marks
Board Member (Leading IP Law firm, Patents & Intellectual Property Protection) (4 yrs 11 mos)
Apollo Hospitals
Chief Innovation Officer & Tech Advisor - Multi Billion Dollar Healthcare Group (1 yr 11 mos)
MaFoi Educational Services Pvt Ltd
Advisory Board Member - Mafoi #1 HR Brand, Asia Pacific, Acquired by Randstad (2 yrs 2 mos)
Airocide
NASA Tech Airocide Partner & Snr. Vice President (ETA Group) (3 yrs 11 mos)
Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai
Adjunct Professor (3 yrs 11 mos)
Business Optima
CTO - InfoDrive ETA Group (Billion dollar Enterprise) (3 yrs 10 mos)
Director & Snr.VP eLiving Projects - InfoDrive, Microsoft & ETA (2 yrs 11 mos)
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Adjunct Professor (2 yrs 11 mos)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Visiting Professor (4 yrs 11 mos)
Deutsche Bank
Business Unit Head - HCL DSL Engagement (3 yrs)
Johnson & Johnson
Healthcare Innovations - HCL (7 yrs 11 mos)
RSA Security
Product Manager - S/MIME, IDS & VA Security Products (5 yrs)
HCL Technologies Ltd
Business Unit Head - (Billion Dollar Group) (9 yrs)
HP
Intern, Consultant - Embedded Technologies (1 yr 10 mos)
Education
AI Professional Program at Stanford University
Executive Education : Leading Successful Programs at Harvard Kennedy School
Healthcare Data Science Program at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Executive Education - Leadership Program (Financial Data Analysis) at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Business Law at Cornell University
Post Graduate Program on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at Texas McCombs School of Business
Digital Transformation : Platform Strategies for Success at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Economics for Capital Markets at Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
Visiting Professor - MBA Programs at Smot School of Business
Adjunct Professor - PGPM Program at Great Lakes Institute of Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA) at IICT – Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade
Visiting Faculty at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Dissertation (MS Degree) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
MS at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at University of Madras
Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers (EdX) at Stanford University
Natural Language Understanding (AI Professional Program) at Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence - Principles & Techniques at Stanford University
Internet of Things at Stanford University School of Engineering
Professional Program at Stanford University
Post Graduate Program - AI on Cloud Certification at Great Learning
