10 Best Leaders from AI in India 2025
10 Best Leaders from AI in India 2025

10 Best Leaders from AI in India 2025

Artificial intelligence is reshaping India, and a new generation of leaders is driving the change. These innovators are turning bold ideas into real-world solutions, building AI products, advancing cloud intelligence, and pioneering research that transforms industries.

TradeFlock’s 10 Best Leaders from AI in India 2025 edition brings you closer to these trailblazers. Through exclusive insights, this edition highlights the best AI leaders, the top AI minds, and the top 10 AI leaders in India who are setting benchmarks, shaping strategies, and inspiring innovation across sectors.

Discover how these visionaries are turning challenges into opportunities, driving AI adoption, and redefining what’s possible. This edition offers an unmissable window into the minds shaping India’s AI future—a must-read for anyone looking to understand the people and ideas powering the country’s technological revolution.

Sagar Chakraborty

Sagar Chakraborty

Director of Artificial Intelligence Innovations & Strategy

Aifa Labs

Recognized as Top 10 AI Leaders from India 2025, Sagar Chakraborty, a PhD in artificial intelligence from IIT Jodhpur, brings more than a decade of AI expertise driving strategic innovation. As product owner of multiple successful enterprise AI platforms, including Cerebro SASA, he has built a proven track record scaling products from concept to market leader, transforming how organizations leverage intelligent automation to unlock competitive advantage and drive growth.

Amit Ss Jain is a distinguished AI Product Management leader at Accenture, bringing 18 years of expertise in shaping cutting-edge data and AI products. An NSUT engineer awarded multiple merit scholarships, an ISB MBA graduate, recipient of the prestigious Young Leader Award, and now a PhD scholar at IIM Sambalpur researching agentic platforms, Amit’s academic and professional journey reflects rare depth and relentless ambition. Celebrated with numerous academic and corporate leadership awards, he continues to redefine what is possible through his research at the intersection of AI, strategy, and digital platforms.

Amit Ss Jain

Agentic AI Product Lead

Accenture

Amit Ss Jain
Dr. Anuj Verma

Dr. Anuj Verma

CTO

Ventaja International Corporation

With over 15 years of experience in building, scaling, and optimizing fintech ecosystems, Dr. Anuj Verma has spearheaded more than five fintech products that are transforming healthcare diagnostics through AI-powered imaging and analytics. He has developed a secure payment gateway and digital wallet enabling frictionless transactions across emerging markets. Additionally, he has optimized DevSecOps and Agile execution, thereby streamlining deployment cycles, improving system efficiency, and reducing time-to-market.

From managing multiple DataScience teams focused on customer behavior analysis to 15+ years as an AI leader, Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj is a veteran in AI-driven business intelligence. He has addressed fraud detection and customer insights using deep-learning models that enhance decision-making speed and accuracy.

Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj

Sr. Director at Softsensor.ai and Founder of GarvAiLab Pvt Ltd.

Softsensor.Ai, and GarvAiLab

Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj
Darshit Kasliwal

Darshit Kasliwal

Techpreneur and Vice President

Empower Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Harvard Business School graduate Darshit Kasliwal has over 26 years of experience in driving Gen AI and innovation. He has used Generative AI and enterprise large language models (LLMs), integrating these advanced technologies into business processes to boost efficiency and innovation. With the HTDM (High Tech & Discrete Mfg) Award in 2007 and the IBU Award in 2005, he has made significant contributions to the development of highly scalable, robust enterprise applications and to the delivery of cloud-based big data solutions.

By focusing on building impactful products and solutions that enable organizations to drive innovation and success, Dr. Divey Sharma brings 18+ years of experience converting enterprise data into actionable AI solutions. He has harnessed solutions that seamlessly integrate Data, AI/Gen AI, and user-centered design, addressing credit risk, banking, and cloud challenges with intelligent platforms that simplify insights and deliver scalable results.

Divey Sharma

Vice President, Data & AI

Incedo Inc.

Divey Sharma
Harshal Jawale

Harshal Jawale

Associate Vice President, AI & Cloud CoE

Zensar Technologies Ltd.

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With 30+ years of global experience in driving AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation across industries. Harshal Jawale is considered one of the best Industry mentors for Cloud & AI, delivering smart, scalable cloud-native solutions. As a G20 India speaker, he is also known for bridging technology and business through empathy-driven leadership, blending strategic foresight with people-centric execution.

An IIM graduate, Rohit Sant, with over two and a half decades of cross-industry leadership experience, has brought a unique blend of P&L ownership, platform and product engineering leadership, strategic client engagement, and global delivery management, consistently translating emerging technologies into impactful business outcomes. His expertise has transformed the digital services division, leveraging intelligent automation and AI to optimize business processes, reduce costs, enhance the customer experience, and revolutionize global service delivery models.

Rohit Sant

SVP - Global Head Digital Services

Firstsource

Rohit Sant
Sivashankar Selvarajan

Sivashankar Selvarajan

CTO

Neural Defend

With awards like the Intel Edge AI Innovator (2020) and the University Gold Medalist (2018) – B.Tech, Sivashankar Selvarajan has over 10 years of experience developing AI-powered cybersecurity platforms that detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks in real time. His work helps enterprises secure their digital boundaries with proactive defense intelligence. Driven by a vision and mission to protect digital identities through AI-driven security solutions that seamlessly integrate into enterprise ecosystems, his goal is to assist people, make life safer and easier, and push the boundaries of innovation through continuous learning and research.

Starting as a management trainee and working up to the Chief Growth Officer at SBA Info Solution Pvt Ltd, Venkatesh A has gained an understanding of key technical and operational changes through direct work with enterprise clients. He has built a 15-person AI business unit that bridges strategy, technology, and people. He has driven business growth by utilizing data analytics and customized IT services to tackle client expansion challenges across sectors such as banking, insurance, and enterprise technology.

Venkatesh A

Chief Growth Officer

SBA Info Solutions Pvt Ltd

Venkatesh A
Vivek Mohan

Vivek Mohan

Leader - Data & Artificial Intelligence

Intuitive.Cloud

With an impeccable record of delivering over 200 AI/ML use cases, 50+ data programs, 10+ products, and 3 M&As, Vivek Mohan has over 23 years of leadership experience in AI and data. He has architected and operationalized more than 75 enterprise data platforms, modern data architectures, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and monetization of data assets. 

Amit Ss Jain
Amit Ss Jain

Agentic AI Product Lead

Accenture

Amit Ss Jain is a distinguished AI Product Management leader at Accenture, bringing 18 years of expertise in shaping cutting-edge data and AI products. An NSUT engineer awarded multiple merit scholarships, an ISB MBA graduate, recipient of the prestigious Young Leader Award, and now a PhD scholar at IIM Sambalpur researching agentic platforms, Amit’s academic and professional journey reflects rare depth and relentless ambition. Celebrated with numerous academic and corporate leadership awards, he continues to redefine what is possible through his research at the intersection of AI, strategy, and digital platforms.

Dr. Anuj Verma
Dr. Anuj Verma

CTO

Ventaja International Corporation

With over 15 years of experience in building, scaling, and optimizing fintech ecosystems, Dr. Anuj Verma has spearheaded more than five fintech products that are transforming healthcare diagnostics through AI-powered imaging and analytics. He has developed a secure payment gateway and digital wallet enabling frictionless transactions across emerging markets. Additionally, he has optimized DevSecOps and Agile execution, thereby streamlining deployment cycles, improving system efficiency, and reducing time-to-market.

Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj
Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj

Sr. Director at Softsensor.ai and Founder of GarvAiLab Pvt Ltd.

Softsensor.Ai, and GarvAiLab

From managing multiple DataScience teams focused on customer behavior analysis to 15+ years as an AI leader, Dr. Bhagirath Bhardwaj is a veteran in AI-driven business intelligence. He has addressed fraud detection and customer insights using deep-learning models that enhance decision-making speed and accuracy.

Darshit Kasliwal
Darshit Kasliwal

Techpreneur and Vice President

Empower Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Harvard Business School graduate Darshit Kasliwal has over 26 years of experience in driving Gen AI and innovation. He has used Generative AI and enterprise large language models (LLMs), integrating these advanced technologies into business processes to boost efficiency and innovation. With the HTDM (High Tech & Discrete Mfg) Award in 2007 and the IBU Award in 2005, he has made significant contributions to the development of highly scalable, robust enterprise applications and to the delivery of cloud-based big data solutions.

Divey Sharma
Divey Sharma

Vice President, Data & AI

Incedo Inc.

By focusing on building impactful products and solutions that enable organizations to drive innovation and success, Dr. Divey Sharma brings 18+ years of experience converting enterprise data into actionable AI solutions. He has harnessed solutions that seamlessly integrate Data, AI/Gen AI, and user-centered design, addressing credit risk, banking, and cloud challenges with intelligent platforms that simplify insights and deliver scalable results.

Harshal Jawale
Harshal Jawale

Associate Vice President, AI & Cloud CoE

Zensar Technologies Ltd.

With 30+ years of global experience in driving AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation across industries. Harshal Jawale is considered one of the best Industry mentors for Cloud & AI, delivering smart, scalable cloud-native solutions. As a G20 India speaker, he is also known for bridging technology and business through empathy-driven leadership, blending strategic foresight with people-centric execution.

Rohit Sant
Rohit Sant

SVP - Global Head Digital Services

Firstsource

An IIM graduate, Rohit Sant, with over two and a half decades of cross-industry leadership experience, has brought a unique blend of P&L ownership, platform and product engineering leadership, strategic client engagement, and global delivery management, consistently translating emerging technologies into impactful business outcomes. His expertise has transformed the digital services division, leveraging intelligent automation and AI to optimize business processes, reduce costs, enhance the customer experience, and revolutionize global service delivery models.

Sivashankar Selvarajan
Sivashankar Selvarajan

CTO

Neural Defend

With awards like the Intel Edge AI Innovator (2020) and the University Gold Medalist (2018) – B.Tech, Sivashankar Selvarajan has over 10 years of experience developing AI-powered cybersecurity platforms that detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks in real time. His work helps enterprises secure their digital boundaries with proactive defense intelligence. Driven by a vision and mission to protect digital identities through AI-driven security solutions that seamlessly integrate into enterprise ecosystems, his goal is to assist people, make life safer and easier, and push the boundaries of innovation through continuous learning and research.

Venkatesh A
Venkatesh A

Chief Growth Officer

SBA Info Solutions Pvt Ltd

Starting as a management trainee and working up to the Chief Growth Officer at SBA Info Solution Pvt Ltd, Venkatesh A has gained an understanding of key technical and operational changes through direct work with enterprise clients. He has built a 15-person AI business unit that bridges strategy, technology, and people. He has driven business growth by utilizing data analytics and customized IT services to tackle client expansion challenges across sectors such as banking, insurance, and enterprise technology.

Vivek Mohan
Vivek Mohan

Leader - Data & Artificial Intelligence

Intuitive.Cloud

With an impeccable record of delivering over 200 AI/ML use cases, 50+ data programs, 10+ products, and 3 M&As, Vivek Mohan has over 23 years of leadership experience in AI and data. He has architected and operationalized more than 75 enterprise data platforms, modern data architectures, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and monetization of data assets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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