DRISHYA - Key Persons


Akshmin Kaur

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff

Aman Brar

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer
For the last 20 years Aman has been building and scaling multiple businesses in Canada leading business development and client engagement. He helps drive the company's offices in Canada and international growth. He is responsible for the company's administrative workload and compliances. He brings his vast experience in building and administering business along with his network of business contacts and relationships in Calgary and Alberta for enabling access and conversations. Aman is an Electrical Engineer by training.

Amardeep Sibia - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Amardeep has over 25 years of professional experience. Previously, he was the CEO at SatSure, CTO at Earth2Orbit and a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he served for 17 years across US, UK and India. He led SatSure to becoming the leading large area analytics startup for agriculture. Amardeep is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and holds a Bachelor of Technology with Honours from Thapar University, Patiala.

Anmol Dudani

Job Titles:
  • Big Data Engineer
Anmol has 3 years of experience in the research of big data and analytics. She is passionate about building applications and services equipped to solve real-world business problems. She has implemented projects in analytics, hypothesis testing, forecasting, object detection, text mining, knowledge mining and optimisation. She is keen to experiment with research advancements in big data engineering. She has authored and published scholarly articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Ashish A. Ingale

Job Titles:
  • Junior Data Scientist
Ashish has over 4 months of experience in Drishya AI Labs. He is skilled in Statistics, Machine Learning, Tableau, SQL and Python. Ashish handles sensor based time series data and helps organizations in making energy intelligent at Drishya. He's done his post graduation in Data science from Aegis School of Business, Data Science integrated with IBM.

Bindusara Ramachandra

Job Titles:
  • AVP Digital Sales
  • Sales & Marketing Consultant
Bindusara Ramachandra is a Sales & Marketing Consultant with 14 years of experience. He is Passionate about marketing communications & crafting compelling stories for B2B, B2C that leads to customer enablement. His interests are in Artificial intelligence, IOT & IOE and lifestyle brands. He follows primates a lot on understanding their intelligence and cognitive behaviour besides that he is an Enduro-Rally enthusiast. He joined drishya as a AVP Digital sales (Business development)

Deepthi Kiran Chebrolu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Scientist
Deepthi Kiran has over 6.5 years of experience in electrical operations in the oil and gas industry. His expertise lies in preventive and predictive maintenance analytics. He has worked in various infra projects with domains ranging from renewables to core oil and gas. He has worked in procurement and contract management of projects worth 30 cr . He has completed his Post graduation program in data science from Aegis School of Data Science. He is interested in leveraging his domain expertise in building real world solutions in digital transformation of industries

Dr. Balmukund Mishra

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist
Dr. Balmukund Mishra has more than 6 years of experience in AI/ML based solution design, development, training and teaching. He possesses a Ph.D. in drone-based search and rescue solution. Prior to his PhD., he worked in training and education sector and graduated first in his master's class from Jaypee University of Information Technology.

Jeff Reading

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Energy Innovation
Jeff is a proven entrepreneur and leader in energy innovation, clean tech commercialization, carbon management, carbon markets, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and energy literacy with extensive private and public sector experience providing innovative, action based solutions that enhance economic prosperity, improve environmental quality and protect the social structures that contribute to our high quality of life. With over 35 years of experience, his strengths include strategic planning, Commercialization of cleantech solutions and management.

Kartikey Tiwari

Job Titles:
  • Junior Software Developer
Kartikey did his Bachelors in Computer applications from Jain University, Bangalore. He has prior work experience as a web Development Intern at various organizations such as Aarambh Digital, Cyber Crime Cell, and Gurugram Police. At Drishya he works ar a Junior software developer

Kashaf Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Full Stack Developer

Kethan Sarma

Job Titles:
  • Software Intern
Kethan has over 3 years of experience in Civil Engineering research. He explores ways to use technology as a helpinh hand for human cognitive thinking and comfort. Kethan holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from VTU. His previous key projects include Energy efficiency through Geothermal Piles.

Mike Whitfield

Job Titles:
  • Business Development
Mike brings his extensive cross-industry, multicultural, international experience, and local and international network, he's strengthening us on the business front by initiating, qualifying and closing new business opportunities. Mike holds a diploma in Marketing Management from the Institute of Marketing Management, as well as a BA from University of Kwa Zulu Natal and has more than 35 years of experience in Business Development.

Namitha K Cheriyan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Scientist

Pankaj Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer
Pankaj Kumar completed hisBachelor of Science in Mathematics from MGKVP Varanasi(U.P.) after which he completed MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATION (MCA) from BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY(B.H.U.) Varanasi (U.P.). He is good at problem solving and he is proficient in ReactJS, NodeJS and JavaScript. He has prior work experience as an intern at various organizations such as Newton School, COYO (CodeOfYourOwn), NPTEL, HackerRank etc. At Drishya he works as a software developer ( artisan team).

Paul Blaha - CMO

Job Titles:
  • VP Marketing
Paul has more than 30 years of professional experience. He helps us with his marketing expertise in developing AI solutions for the engineering services, oil and gas, utility, and power generation. Over the past 23 years Paul has been an executive in Alberta with ATCO, Archer Cleantech, Stuart Olson, and Gemini Engineering. He is a professional engineer in Alberta as a member of APPEGA, and is on the Board of an Alberta-based transmission start-up.

Priyam Tiwari

Job Titles:
  • Data Science Intern
Priyam is pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science from KNIPSS, Sultanpur (UP). Currently working as a data science intern in Drishya AI, he is helping the organization to analyze alarm data. Prior to this, he has also worked as an intern in Twowaits Technologies Pvt. Ltd. His skillsets includes Statistics, Python, SQL and Data Science.

Priyank Jha

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Junior Data Scientist
Priyank is a mechanical engineer turned Data Scientist, with focus on Computer vision models. He has worked on several projects and hackathons with end to end solutions designed. He has also interned with AIForMankind, California in their research project for detecting forest fires and designing an AI alarm solution to the whole forest fire prevention problem.

Prof. Deepak Garg

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Director
  • Director, NVIDIA Bennet Research Center
Professor Deepak Garg is Director, leadingindia.ai and NVIDIA-Bennet Research Center on Artificial Intelligence. He is Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department, of Bennett University. He has 20 years of rich experience. He has delivered more than 250 expert talks around the world and has more than 100 publications. He has handled research funding of 20+ crores. The fact that he has been chair of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Education Society, India Council speaks volumes about his knowledge and work. His research is in Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, and Algorithms. He is passionate about the quality of higher education in India and works extensively on MOOCs and pedagogy space.

Prof. Dinesh Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems at IIM Bangalore
Prof Dinesh is a professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems at IIM Bangalore. His main research and teaching interests are Business Analytics and Systems Engineering. He's also the course director of the Business Analytics and Intelligence Executive Education Programme conducted by IIM Bangalore. He carried out consultancy projects for Boston Consulting Group (India) Private Limited, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Army, in the Analytics Domain. He has published 25 case studies at the Harvard Business Publishing on the use of predictive and prescriptive analytics by the Indian companies multinational organizations. He's authored more than 70 research articles and 2 books.

Ravi Shankar Singh

Job Titles:
  • Junior Software Developer
Ravi Shakar Singh has completed his Bachelor's in Information Technology from IET, Lucknow. He has good coding skills and solved 250+ problems on geeksforgeeks online platform. He is passionate about learning the latest technology design patterns and automation. He has intuitive problem-solving skills and he is towards solving real-world problems through technology.

Ravikiran Yalamarthi

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
  • Junior Data Scientist
Ravikiran is a chemical engineer and an Industrial AI enrhusiast with a keen interest in digital transformation of process industries by leveraging IIOT and Digital Twins. He works in Process Simulation, Advanced Process Control, Process Optimization and Process Analytics fields. He is an alumnus of M.Tech program in Process Control and Instrumentation at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli with Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Nuzvid.

Rishikesh Kamath B

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Scientist
Rishikesh has over 10 years of experience in the software industry.His expertise lies in building end-to-end product pipelines, with a focus on Computer vision. He is an alumnus of the Business Analytics and Intelligence(BAI) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore with a Bachelor's degree in Electronicsand Communications Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.

Sajith PJ

Job Titles:
  • Junior Software Developer
Sajith P J did his Bachelor of Computer Science from College Of Applied Science Kuzhalmannam. He has prior work experience as an intern at various organizations such as Tecknocks Solutions, Ernakulam, Spotix Pvt Ltd, Thrissur, and has worked as a Frontend Developer at Tyler Petroleum, Malappuram. Sajith has joined drishya as a Junior Software Engineer.

Saranjay Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer

Sarbjeet Kaur

Job Titles:
  • HR Manager

Saumil Sheth - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
With over 20 years of international experience, Saumil has spent 18 years in Goldman Sachs in US and India as part of the technology organization and held the position of a Vice President at the firm. Subsequently he was part of startup organisations deploying analytical and AI solutions for HR and Healthcare Analytics. He is also the founder of Akademize, an AI/ML/ Data Science Academy. On the academic front he holds an Msc. from Pennsylvania State University and is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).

Shashi Bhushan

Shashi Bhushan did Bachelor of Science from Reva University, Karnataka.He has prior work experience as Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp Training at Newton School, and Junior Full-Stack Developer at Datoin. Shashi Has joined drishya as a software developer.

Shreyans Jain

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist
  • Deloitte Shared Services India LLP As Data Scientist
Shreyans has worked with Deloitte Shared Services India LLP as Data Scientist. He has expertise in AI/Ml and Azure cloud platform. He has completed his M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bennett University, India. During my M.Tech. he has worked as Junior Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on Sukanya Rakshak: Wireless Sensor Network based Security System, which was funded by Council of Science and Technology (CST), Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sravan Kumar Rekandar - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
Sravan has worked in technology for over 15 years and has experience in building software products, managing and training teams across a number of MNCs including Goldman Sachs, Sapient and Wipro. Sravan has versatile experience in software designing and development that include designing, wireframing, architecting and managing products. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences from Andhra University.

Sri Ram Mogalapalli

Job Titles:
  • Junior Software Developer
Sriram is a Node.js full stack web developer. He is thorough with Data Structures and Algorithms and is proficient in Git, NodeJS, ReactJS and building end-to-end web applications. He can build end-to-end RESTful applications. He is ardent in learning new technologies and automation. He is an alumnus of the M.Tech program in Power Electronics at Aditya Engineering College affiliated to JNTU University with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Avanthi Institutes of Engineering and Technology.

Surbhi Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist
Surbhi has completed her Ph.D. in deep reinforcement learning from Bennett University. She has completed her masters and bachelor degree in computer science. She is also GATE qualified and was selected as Programmer Analyst Training in Cognizant and as Junior Research Fellow in DRDO but instead of joining, she persued her Ph.D. She has published her work in international journals and workshops of IEEE, Springer and Elsevier. She has mentored deep learning and machine learning based projects. She has worked in a reinforcement learning project with Times of India.

Tas Hussain

Job Titles:
  • Business Development
  • Sales and Business Development Executive
Tas is an accomplished sales and business development executive & a leader with over 15 years of experience in the Energy sector. Having worked for Siemens, Rohde & Schwarz, Powell Industries & Schneider Electric previously, he's a registered professional engineer in Alberta with extensive business & leadership training. Tas is an alumni of Harvard, Schulich School of Business and National University of Science and Technology.

TJ Grewal

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Serial Entrepreneur

Venugopal Gella - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Venugopal G, has worked in the financial, business analytics and data intelligence sector for 19 years and has been a financial Advisor for Large Corporations and Multinational Companies. Venugopal is a Chartered Accountant who qualified by securing all India 45th Rank and is also an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). Apart from being our CFO, he's also a partner in a chartered accountancy firm.