Ritesh Srivastava has been named the new Chief Data Scientist at “BharatPe,” the top finance platform in India. Ritesh was the Novartis Associate Director of Data Science, Digital, and Advanced Analytics before to taking up his current position. He oversaw cutting-edge research and development initiatives on resource allocation, natural language processing, chatbots, computer vision, speech recognition, and related AI/ML fields at Novartis.
Ritesh has more than 13 years of experience in top data and technology leadership roles at MNCs, including Lowe’s Home Improvements in the United States and Novartis (New York, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland). He has established and led data science and engineering teams throughout the years in a variety of industries, including travel, pharma, BFSI, retail, automotive, and FMCG.
He was recognised for his professional and academic contributions to the fields of aata science and artificial intelligence by being named one of the Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists in India and the Top 100 Analytics leaders in the APAC region.
Ritesh, a graduate of IIMB and Praxis, serves on the Board of Studies for the ITM Vocational University in Vadodara’s courses in data science, artificial intelligence, and cloud technology.
The use and control of data at BharatPe, including data science, data engineering, data management, and strategy, will be led by me as the Chief Data Scientist. In this rapidly expanding organisation, my main goal would be to establish a data-driven culture and decision-making process. BharatPe is already a financial unicorn, and I think the moment is right for us to tap into its full potential by using big data to transform it into an AI/ML-powered titan. — Riteshi Srivastava
