Anees Merchant - Executive Vice President – Applied AI & Digital

Anees leads the Applied AI and Digital business and brings over 23 years of experience to Course5 Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. He has worked with numerous global Fortune 500 clients across various industries, including Retail / eTail, Travel and Hospitality, Telecommunications and Technology and Media. Last year he was recognized as 40 under 40 by a premium India publication house to honor his digital initiatives. Anees serves as an Advisor for the WIAC (Wiley Innovation Advisory Council). For two years in a row he has co-authored the Wiley Black Book (2019 and 2020) with other esteemed industry leaders in partnership with Wiley.
At Course5, Anees has led and launched industry-recognized and leading solutions and products (Compete and Discovery). His work at Course5 revolves chiefly around setting go-to-market strategy for Applied AI, scaling global business (sales, operations, and solutions), engaging with Executives at Fortune 500 companies and building the strategic partner ecosystem.
Anees has worked with clients across industries to drive impact on their business by enabling them with innovative AI-led solutions and practices. He is currently focusing on leveraging artificial intelligence to disrupt the space of digital and insights. Anees is also certified on Lean Six Sigma with an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Manish Mittal - Senior Vice President - Research - AI

Manish has close to two decades of experience across market research and analytics. In the past decade, he has held several leadership positions with the responsibility of driving business expansion and innovative business solutions based on Artificial Intelligence and other leading technologies.
Manish co-founded MarketGate Dimensions, a market research firm which was sold to Publics Groupe in 2012. He is a recognized expert in the industries of research and analytics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as ESOMAR, TMRE, ILC, R&R, MRSI, and World Marketing Congress. He is frequently invited for guest lectures at leading management institutes in India

Tamal Chowdhury - Senior Vice President – Artificial Intelligence Labs

Tamal Chowdhury is a distinguished AI Executive and CTO with extensive experience in AI-powered product & platform engineering, cognitive automation, data science & machine learning, digital transformation, and next-generation technology research & development. He specializes in building global innovation structures for large-scale IP generation; transforming organizations through state-of-the-art technologies; and commercializing new ideas to fuel business growth. He is a futurist and technology strategist and is passionate about leveraging Artificial Intelligence to solve complex challenges of the real world.
Tamal currently serves as SVP and Head of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering at Course5. In this role, he is responsible for defining and executing the overall AI and technology vision of the company. Previously, he served as the Senior Director and Head of India Development Center of a large technology division at Oracle, a Fortune 100 company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Statistics, an MBA in Finance & Systems, a Master’s degree in Economics, and a Master’s degree in Business Law.

Anil Damodaran - Vice President - Research AI

Anil is an accomplished business leader and marketer with over 15 years of experience in the marketing analytics space. He currently manages Go-To-Market & Product Strategy for Course5's Adomate product (an AI based Advertising Intelligence system) and previously managed research consulting engagements around the globe for several Fortune 500 companies in the technology, media and telecommunications industries.

Poonam Dave - VP - Operations, Course5 Intelligence

Poonam has over 12 years of experience working with KPO and captive set-ups. Managing operations, driving strategy, leading client engagement and delivering efficiency via innovation are some of the roles she has undertaken. In her tenure, she has set up several global engagements and has worked with clients to drive impact for their business by providing them with innovative solutions and practices. Poonam is a certified Lean Six Sigma professional with a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Mumbai University.

Praveen Sathyadev - VP - Global Operations

Praveen has over 14 year of digital experience working with diverse 'best of breed' clientele across the world. He is currently leading a global team delivering disruptive digital analytics consulting and solutions. He runs multiple programs around DCX for Fortune 100 clients, leveraging futuristic analytics practice. Talk to him about how Big Data and analytics is changing your DCX space.

Megha Chaudhry - Global Head Of Marketing, Course5 Intelligence

Megha has over 14 years of marketing experience spanning across Information Technology, Digital Analytics, Cable and Telco, Financial Services and Market research with extensive exposure to global markets - US, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. She has a solid background in conceiving, planning, executing and evaluating integrated digital marketing programs that drive results. Her focus is towards brand awareness, brand interaction, and top-line revenue/profitability growth leveraging channels like social media, SEO/SEM, email marketing, nurturing campaigns, new business development through sales and marketing efforts.

Zabi Ulla S - Sr. Director Advanced Analytics

Zabi comes with 15 years of experience in data analytics, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence primarily in business consulting domain. He has worked for marque clients such as Lenovo, Intel, Microsoft, YouTube, Del monte, Wrigley, T-Mobile etc. solving complex business problems related to customer monetization and marketing optimization. Zabi in his current role, leads advanced analytics and data science practice with Course5 Intelligence. In his previous stint with other companies he has experience in designing and executing machine learning models and developed teams to develop niche solutions. Zabi comes from applied statistics background. He has masters in statistics and recently selected as Top 40 data scientists in India by Analytics India Magazine. Zabi carries acute interest in machine reasoning, causal inference, experimental designs along with machine learning and data science.