Anish Parulekar

Data scientist and AI practitioner with over 19 years of experience in Retail and SME banking analytics space. Continuously focused on creating shareholder value and enhancing customer experience. Love to challenge myself with regular experimenting, insight mining and hypothesis proving/disproving. Strong expertise in 1) Creating and managing underwriting/behaviour risk models on traditional data - bureau, transactions, payments as well as alternate data - telecom, ecommerce, satellite farmland imagery 2) Building and deploying hyper-personalization program for large customer base in both digital and physical channels 3) Managing model risks on both regulatory and compliance front. 4) Setting up established and innovative data science practices including AI CoE focused on Generative AI, NLP, Vision and Speech Recognition. 5) Creating lifetime value and profitability models for products/customers. 6) Managing large data science and data engineering teams for large banks including setting up of talent acquisition platform and learning/development practice.