Aditya Khandekar, CFA

Experience

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  Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

  Jul 1993 - Jun 1995

  Systems Software Engineer

  Developed propriety design tool for GSM networks, taught the “Software Engineering" course to engineers as part of the induction-training program, designed the operating system of a Smartcard system and market research for an ISDN PCMCIA card market launch.

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  Aditi Technologies

  Jul 1998 - Dec 1999

  Finance Manager

  Finance Manager, Aditi CorpConsolidating financial planning and reporting for the exec team, led the spinoff of Talisma from Aditi, raising money for Talisma at the startup level.

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  Talisma

  Jan 2000 - Mar 2007

  Launched the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) business unit for Talisma focused on selling the offering as a SASS offering. This business generated 130 new customers and $1.5M in new business for FY2006. Led the Inside sales team of six people, launched the product offerings, sales collateral and training, pricing, internet based lead generation, managed operational processes and customer deployments.Developed analytical strategies for keyword pricing & landing page designs for organic and paid google & yahoo search to drive client acquisition. Separately, led the sell side financial due diligence process as interim CFO in mid 2006. Show less Corporate Controller, Talisma CorpManaged a global accounting function spanning US, Canada, Europe, India and Australia responsible for producing GAAP financials, global audit and tax filings. Managed the financial and operational planning process for the CFOWorked closely with the CFO on two acquisitions, eAssist Global Solutions Inc. acquired in Sept 2004 and KB.net acquired in March 2005. Develop and published weekly metrics on key performance indicators like services utilization, sales pipeline status, marketing lead generation metrics and support call center metrics. Developed a sophisticated time-tracking system for professional services revenue. Show less

  • Director Small and Medium Business

    Oct 2005 - Mar 2007

  • Corporate Controller

    Oct 2003 - Oct 2005

  • Financial and Business Analyst

    Jan 2000 - Oct 2003
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  Aztecsoft

  Apr 2007 - Mar 2008

  Director Business Development

  Enterprise business development for Northwest accounts, drive strategic alliances and lead North America direct lead generation efforts.

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  SG Analytics

  Apr 2008 - Jun 2010

  VP Head of Research

  Launched the banking analytics practice at SGA with focus towards the Middle East & Europe banking market. Key accomplishments were: 1. Developed cross-sell strategies in the mass-retail segment of the bank with a focus towards growing profitability & wallet share. 2. Developed strategies in the wealth segment to retain top clients and offer custom products to them based on their profile and behaviour. 3. Supported strategic risk assessment of corporate banking clients through decision systems and customized training to manage health of portfolio on an ongoing basis. 4. Supported corporate re-organization efforts with a combination of strategy consulting and analytics data driven visualization systems. In addition, led the business, equity and credit research teams at SGA. Actively mentored analyst to develop strategic thinking and improved quality and process across the organization. Show less

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  Fiserv

  Jun 2010 - Jan 2014

  General Manager Analytics Advisory Service

  Setup & grew a global Analytics Advisory business which offered sophisticated predictive and descriptive data analytics services to Banks around revenue enhancement & cost rationalization. Worked across the asset & liability banking profile of customers and assessed the impact of digital channels and payments on customer profitability. The business offered iterative consulting & layered technology enabled analytics with focus on tracking performance and continuous learning to get strong ROI from analytics. Key highlights were: 1. Created customer profiles using statistical segmentation and developed precision next best action strategies based on multivariate statistical & machine learning models to predict customer purchase and life cycle behaviour. 2. Developed predictive analytics driven decision system which integrated tightly with core banking solutions and offered triggers in areas such as customer attrition & recommendations for wallet share growth. 3. Member of the Fiserv analytics leadership team that built out a big data based recommendation business called Predictive Scores which analysed large volumes of banking transaction data to offer cross-sell insights to Banks around their customers using an "analytics factory" approach. Show less

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  Zafin

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2016

  Managing Director Analytics

  Developed two major suites of analytics products on-cloud for enhancing customer relationship and loyalty. Relationship Optimization: Cloud delivered Relationship optimization offering to curate the right product bundles to customer; measure & optimize experience through proprietary relationship score (US patent filed). Loyalty Optimization: Cloud delivered loyalty analytics platform which analyzes product usage and loyalty data (earn and burn) and makes recommendations to improve engagement & product usage.Payment Fraud Analytics Consulting: Developed payment fraud ML driven detection models & unsupervised techniques to understand fraud customer behavior. Generated additional fraud detection of > $10 million. GTM and Commercialization & Strategic Client Interactions: Commercialized the offering with Tier 1 & 2 banks and lead discussion with clients on business & analytical problem framing, solution roadmap, deliverables, timelines and pricing. Show less

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  Scienaptic AI

  Nov 2016 - Jun 2019

  Chief Analytics Officer

  Scienaptic is a cutting-edge analytics firm that delivers tech. enabled credit-underwriting solutions to Tier 1 & 2 retails banks globally by applying proprietary AI & unique tech. to deliver digital credit underwriting in real and batch model to clients. The firm has demonstrated 8-10% increase in approval rates, 10-25% reduction in credit losses from newly acquired customers. As a hands-on data scientist, I focused on deep analytical solutioning for clients working closely with our modelling & technology teams to configure Ether Underwrite based on client requirements. I also focused on expanding our product roadmap in the credit & fraud management lifecycle developing solutions for collections, transactional fraud detection & entity risk scoring using evolving techniques like Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM's), multivariate risk calibration algorithms & chained semi-supervised approaches for fraud detection. Show less

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  Corridor Platforms

  Jul 2019 - now

  President (India)

  In a startup mode, my multi-faceted roles at Corridor Platforms includes: 1. Guiding and mentoring the Tech and Data Science teams to build a strong delivery capability for R&D and client facing teams. 2. As a product expert, support client solutioning, developing strategic product adoption road-maps and product training. 3. Work closely with the CEO to prospect clients, deal structuring and closing. 4. Develop strategic alliances, online and offline marketing and branding & writing thought leadership content to showcase Corridor product value proposition. Show less