Pavan C.

The AI Accelerator Institute's mission is to help develop the next generation of machine intelligence specifically focusing on accelerating AI at the edge.

Asia’s largest student-run entrepreneurship promoting body. 11th edition of The 10-Minute Million (TTMM) - India’s first-of-its-kind on-spot funding platform where you get the chance to pitch your idea to an esteemed panel of investors and grab an on-spot funding up to INR 3.5 million for your startup! With 1 in every 2 startups winning investors’ approval and receiving significant investments, TTMM has achieved phenomenal success.

Mentoring and advising early-stage startups. - Product Market Fit, Go-To-Market, PLG Vs SLG, Product pricing strategies, Product marketing & messaging - Solutioning, Scaling Engineering & Business - Helping with VC investments & Pitch

As an HBR’s advisory council member, I help improve the content and chart HBR’s future direction.

• Led product engineering and team growth from sub-$400M to over $1.5B Revenues • Matured SDLC processes, introduced SAST/DAST, OSS governance and led company through a successful growth • Responsible for Global engineering organization - 2x growth - kept talent churn to minimum • Responsible for delivery of multi-product portfolio – Continuous Active Learning (CAL) - AI/ML Solution for DocReview process saved millions of $$$ for customers, Legal Hold, New Digital Experience, OKTA MFA, ONNA Data connector integration, Data & Analytics, ML / DevSecOps, • Led new product innovations with goal of launching a new adjacent product each year – startups within Company • Collaborated with Product Management to drive more Agile delivery of customer value • Led M&A diligence, successfully closed over 3 acquisitions

Oversaw architecture, development, QA (TCoE), DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, and maintenance for 90% revenue-generating flagship product applications and monitoring functions. Successfully mentoring team of IT Directors to build and support areas of responsibility with documented, auditable Standard Operating Procedure Catalogs resulting in average documented systems availability of > 99.95%. Successfully transformed Product development practices to Agile and implemented a new Application Lifecycle Manager (Jira) to properly support and enforce SDLC allowing for a significant increase in overall communication, transparency, reporting, and visibility into projects. Released a brand new improved/redesigned customer experience (CX) website in 2021. Key accountable leader for ensuring user experience overhaul for all flagship products. Completed on time involving 100s of components & interdependencies. Implemented a new micro-frontend & test automation framework allowing 1000s of automated tests to be run in a few hours through Azure DevSecOps resulting in high quality, reduced regression timelines, improved customer onboarding, revenue & faster time to market. Spearheaded Wolters Kluwer Flood LOB acquisition from start to finish. Designed and developed a reusable API-based acquisition model using WSO2 (API gateway), RabbitMQ & Redis distributed cache for existing systems to enable acquisition. Successfully integrated Technology, Third-party vendors & customers to become the third-largest flood service provider in the nation. Successfully reduced the risk footprint of unsupported servers by re-writing the applications to Cloud-native serverless event-driven Architecture & upgrading underlying operating systems to the latest version. Resulted in 40% improved Product performance and the best Q4 operational efficiency in the history of the company. Introduced DevSecOps culture empowering application teams to own delivery all the way to production.

Responsible for growing the Practice to 120+ Enterprise customers which include fortune 500/1000 organizations. Drove $25M+ Cloud consumption in 2019 through Digital Transformation/Partnership program. Responsible for Ideation, Thought Process, and Technology Leadership. Built AWS migration strategy from scratch for a major Bio-Pharma company, which converted into a multi-million-dollar engagement.

Global enterprise media asset management system supporting 29 million assets and 50PB of storage, for Fox’s digital supply chain that distributes production ready broadcast quality episodic and feature content and marketing materials to 23K+ customers in 195 countries. Manage a team of 80+ as well as direct the strategic development of Internal OTT platform to market content to B2B customers. • Direct the Global Supply Chain Cloud transformation to integrate the best technology vendors and enable 21CF to scale media processing and distribution across the globe to meet the B2B and consumer demand. The project transformed the existing FMC platform, with over 15 components and multiple user portals, into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. • DSC End-to-End IMF Adoption Strategy Initiative: Formulated the next-generation IMF strategy and road map working with a core group of executives from FMS, EOM/OMS & Foxfast. • Instrumental in spearheading Fox MediaCloud Screeners application, which supports $ 2B TVD business, onto Azure. Proposed and delivered on-the-fly burn-in for the screening room, resulting in multi-million-dollar cost savings. • Responsible for Architecture, Development/QA of Web, Mobile Development (iOS, Android) for Fox MediaCloud including SDLC, CI/CD, Docker/Containers, and DevOps. • Oversaw strategic planning, budget development, hire, and training, and mentoring of direct reports (80+).

Focus areas - Business and Technology Strategy, Frameworks and Building Blocks for Strategy, Generating and Evaluating Commercial Ideas, Entry Strategies, Strategic Adaptation and Renewals, Ecosystems, Mastering Innovation (tools, techniques and execution), Trends. Building Unicorns, Future of Technology, Technology Policy, Privacy and Security, Managing and Implementing Complex Projects, Product Management and Strategy and Technology Innovation and Strategy