Vishal Ahluwalia

Vishal is currently the Founder & CEO of KeeperAI. In two years, he has built a global and diverse team, grown KeeperAI’s valuation by 300%, raised ~$5 million from private investors, built relationships and led negotiations with top-tier companies, like Microsoft and Google. KeeperAI is a one-of-a-kind platform that allows employees to showcase their personalities and connect with co-workers more meaningfully. In a hybrid, often faceless work environment, where employees struggle to fit in and companies struggle to preserve their work cultures, KeeperAI is a timely, much-needed solution. KeeperAI enables your team to capture invaluable cultural, social, and behavioral insights through the power of imagery and artificial intelligence, to develop robust employee best fit profiles and personalize the employee journey.

As the authoritative source for North America's biodiversity information, NatureServe ensures that decision-makers have access to the best available science to protect species and ecosystems. One of our goals for 2025 is to expand relationships with partners and friends to advance our mission of guiding biodiversity conservation. We’re delighted to announce that Vishal Ahluwalia, the CEO and Founder of KeeperAI, has joined NatureServe as our new Strategic Advisor. One of Vishal’s goals for 2025 is to continue to “conceptualize, create, and collaborate.” At NatureServe, Vishal will help shape our vision for the future of technology in conservation by advising on integrating AI and creating a new, standardized data product. This innovation will make it easier than ever for corporate and NGO partners to access the data they need to inform impactful conservation decisions.

Serves as a strategic C-Suite advisor for the Financial Industry on a myriad of topics inclusive of digital transformation, business and client experience, automation, adoption of Fintechs, building out shared services, vendor selection and banking operations focused on ease of doing business by building digital platforms, legacy modernisation and creating risk and control parameters.

My most recent experience has focused on transforming complex business processes and included planning and executing strategic digitization/automation initiatives using market utilities and emerging technologies (i.e. RPA, AI, Blockchain) for JP Morgan and our external clients. These initiatives optimized cost, created new business and transformed outdated workflows. Revamped client experience by streamlining legacy processes using robotic process automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain. Represented the bank in an industry consortium (jointly owned by Goldman Sachs, DTCC, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and BNY Mellon). Brokered the sale of the consortium’s Clarient platform to Thomson Reuters. ● Implemented Client Experience (CX) strategies that improved NPS scores and increased revenue by $100mm. Achieved this by launching a cross-asset, multi-channel client interaction digitization program improving straight-through processing rates across client facing functions. ● Designed and implemented an Ease-of-Doing-Business process that decreased onboarding time by 30% by leveraging digitization, utilities and new workflows while adhering to the risk and regulatory frameworks. ● Applied disruptive new technologies and automation that increased the effectiveness of platform services and utilities, achieving 30% cost reduction. ● Worked with global system integrators like TCS, Mphasis, Cognizant, Accenture, Wipro, as well as management consulting firms such as Deloitte, Mckinsey and Oliver Winheim. Additionally, I have collaborated with digital engineering services like Endava, EPAM, Thoughtworks, Globant, as well as Fintech companies focusing on CX/UX to build offshore delivery and development centers, including the build-out of a 5,000-person IT/BPO and Data/Analytics Center Of Excellence with consulting & outsourced resources.

Automation for KYC, Doc Management Onboarded market utilities - eg: Entity Exchange by Bloomberg, IHS Markit, Clarient To meet the demands of the regulatory requirements, scaled the remediation and reconciliation process. Built a utility for ref-data in KYC to streamline onboarding.

Responsible for transformation strategy and governance across the Investment Bank and Wealth Management businesses Led pivotal transformation initiatives that significantly reduced operating expenses and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Brokered a deal to sell a legacy SAP product to a Global Integrator Worked with global system integrators, management consulting firms, and Fintech companies to build offshore delivery and development centers, including the build out of a 5,000-person IT/BPO and Data/Analytics Center Of Excellence with consulting & outsourced resources.

Regional head responsible for new opportunities to drive business alignment of cost optimization initiatives Executed a domain-based model focused on people, process and technology for cost optimization and alignment from inception to delivery.

Internal transformation leader with a mandate to establish optimal delivery model, risk free transition away from onshore captives and increasing competitive standing in the marketplace Pivoted the company from a product to service orientation. Executed a large-scale, go-to-market deal for a banking product (InfoImage), IT, BPO, and infrastructure. Also responsible for streamlining the partnership with Microsoft.