Manuj Desai

A senior executive leader with over 20+ years of experience including general management of mid to large-size organizations, corporate development, product development, business operations, and strategy. In the current role, as Global CIO responsible for Architecture, Product Development, Process re-engineering, Analytics, Visualization, Automation, Digitization, Info Security, Industry 4.0 & Data Science. Enabling Digital Transformation across multiple Business Units and corporate functions. Prior to this worked as India Head for Personal Insurance at AIG enabling process innovation, pricing and underwriting applications, InsureTech automation, decision tools development, digitization, catastrophic modeling, and predictive modeling. At AIG also worked as India Head for Data Integration, Advance Business Intelligence, Visualization, and Architecture. Involved in building the capabilities from the ground up. Role included creating organizational city plans to design technology solutions for converging and combining data from disparate sources into physical or virtual layers. Relocated to India from USA in 2011 to manage the Global Operations and Delivery for PayPal India, Prior to PayPal, spent 12 years in US. - Worked with US Department of Agriculture (USDA) creating the As-Is and the To-Be abstractions layers for Investments, Business Process & Functions, Application and Data. - Prior to USDA, played a key role in Managing the Revenue Targets and Funding for all the Midrange Information Technology solutions for Sprint-Nextel. Have also had the opportunity to work in other countries including Canada and Morocco. With a strong commitment to provide affordable education to all, serve as a honorary board member for an educational trust. Specialties: Machine Learning Special - Author of "Demystifying the Concepts around Deep Learning" & "Understanding Bias Variance Trade-offs in Machine Learning" Author of "Clinch the Deal - Negotiation Strategies to Get What You Want" Author of "Deep Emotional Learning Simplified - Managing anxiety for cognitive leaders" Master’s Certificate in Project Management, George Washington University CSM - Certified Scrum Master Certified Enterprise Architect TOGAF 9 Certified Certified SQL Developer Certified Java Developer Certified ISO 9001 Auditor Certified SOX Auditor Certified Software Configuration Management Analyst