Our stories are fired by big data and AI
Our raison d'être
Ideas and opinions need to be backed by tangible data.
Crayon aspires to make the data that permeates the world around us, simple and easy to understand.
We do so by creating AI-led, digital-first solutions
Why?
We believe that data is meant to serve the human spirit, not rule it.
How?
We do this by making it simple for everyone to see, touch and use the information that will make a difference to our lives.
What?
We create solutions that use data and AI to illuminate and simplify every aspect of your existence.

The genesis of Crayon

We handle data.
With art. With heart.
Our Crayon arrow logo is inspired by tangrams – the enduring Chinese puzzle involves just 7 precise pieces that have hundreds of different solutions. Just like data. The answers to everything in the universe are in the bytes of data we collect, that reveal different insights, through different combinations.
Artful solutions from precise science. And the complex made simple.
Our Founders

Suresh is a second-time entrepreneur, and an evangelist of big data, analytics and digital personalization. His first venture, RedPill Analytics was acquired by IBM. With background in sales, marketing, advertising, media, analytics and Big Data, Suresh has been in the industry for 35 years. Long enough to see the transformation of marketing from right-brain to a left-brain pursuit.
Suresh Shankar
Founder and CEO

Aarti has 18+ years of experience in Marketing, Analytics and Operations, especially in the BFSI domain. She enjoys bridging the gap between traditional business and new-age technology, for her clients. She dons many hats - operations, marketing and client management - while also making sure that Crayon is an eclectic and diverse workplace.
Aarti Ramakrishnan
Co-Founder and CoO

Vijaya Kumar (known as IVK) is a leading expert in innovation management and advanced technologies incubation in India. He consults in business strategy and transformation through new age technologies, covering areas like embedded systems, cloud services, big data analytics and mobility.
Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi
Co-Founder and CTO

Srikant is a successful entrepreneur, advisor and mentor in digital transformation, M&A-based growth strategy, intrapreneurship & CSR. He successfully built, scaled and sold two large service ventures in India and SE Asia.
Srikant Sastri
Co-Founder and Advisor
Our Captains

18+ years' experience in Analytics, AI/ML and Big Data consulting to FSS, Retail and Telecom across US, Asia-Pacific & ME with consistent track record of delivering client delight. Experienced in setting up Analytics, GTM and Delivery functions from ground up.
Pratyush Roy
VP, Go-To-Market

17+ years' experience delivering digital transformation projects for Fortune 500 clients across domains including Industrial, Automotive, AdTech, Telecom and Banking
Mudassar Waseem
VP, Program Management

15 years of experience in Banking across APAC and EMEA. Expertise in dgital transformation, big data deployment for real time smart decisioning, offer orchestration, omnichannel consistency. Embedding analytics, data storytelling and building transparency across delivery channels.
Vidhyashankar Sriram
VP, Customer Success

Vinayak is a seasoned, hands-on tech leader, with a proven track record in building software products from 0 to 1 & scaling from x to 10x multiple times across finance, e-commerce and travel. He loves working on products/companies with a steep learning curve, and looks to push the boundaries.
Vinayak Ganapuram
VP, Engineering

Naveen has 20+ years of HR experience across automobile manufacturing, telecom and media sectors. He enjoys partnering with functional leaders to translate their business vision into HR initiatives. Naveen has worked in leadership roles as HR business partner as well as at strategic levels, successfully designing and implementing talent management, succession planning and people transformation initiatives.
Naveen S Pillai
VP, Human Resources

Ahmet comes with 15+ years of experience defining and directing sales, business development, strategies and building trust. He worked for IBM, a business partner of SAP, and a household appliances company - Arcelik. He is a seasoned sales leader with a proven track record in enterprise sales. He has in-depth experience in re-defining strategies and curating personalized solutions to best meet client expectations.
Ahmet Can Sezgin
VP, Sales (EMEA)

Nagesh comes with 15+ years of experience across Mastercard, Google and AT Kearney. In his previous stint, he was Head of Merchant Solutions, APAC at Mastercard across verticals like digital, retail, telco, travel and insurance. He has worked across the Europe, APAC and North American regions on partnerships & partner management, business development and consulting.
Nagesh Jaladi
VP, Merchant solutions

Kenny comes with 12+ years of experience in driving financial and operational excellence in diverse industries from info-communications to fintech. His areas of expertise include fronting successful M&A deals, financial modelling, budget forecasting and providing real time insights on company's growth
Kenny Lee
VP, Finance

Saurav comes with 20+ years of experience in building tech products, pioneering Big Data, AI, and machine learning adoption. He is also an expert in fintech and cloud server engineering. An alumnus of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, he also has a master's degree in financial engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Saurav Joshi
VP, Engineering

Peter comes with more than two decades of experience in tech sales in both mature and emerging markets. Through his career, he has helped organizations overcome business challenges, secure their environment, and improve customer relationships. He is an expert in combining technical knowledge, business acumen and sales ability towards high value enterprise solutions.
Peter Marini
VP, Sales (APAC)
Our Leaders
Sales & Marketing

10+ years' experience in sales enablement and delivery of analytics for banking, pharma and e-commerce with exposure to APAC, EMEA, North America markets. He has led analytics initiatives across digital acquisition, digital engagement, customer insights, fraud reduction.
Vinod Narayanan
Director, Sales Engineering

Vinod has 14+ years of experience in data and analytics in financial, telecom, digital and entertainment industries. He has extensive experience in building advanced analytics, data science and business intelligence teams with a focus on actionable insights to drive business decisions. His areas of interest include predictive modelling, customer life time value and NLP optimization.
Vinod Radhakrishnan
Director, Partnerships

12+ years of experience across IT, Banking, Edtech and Fintech. She is building a personalized digital marketplace called Bazaar@maya.ai that is THE channel that will connect retailers to the right customers.
Vidhya Nair
Senior Manager, Merchant Solutions
Program Management

18+ years of experience in IT, primarily in delivery management. With expert skills across program management, people management and client management, make her an asset to any team. people, mentoring and enabling teams, and building high-performance teams.
Devaki Gopalan
Director, Program Management

Bharath is a seasoned techno-functional sales and account management professional with 19+ years of experience spanning across sales, pre-sales, business strategy and program management. He has executed several compelling business campaigns, and devised groundbreaking programs to enter new markets, working across a variety of sectors including tech startups.
Bharath Kumar
Director, Program Management

Shankar Ganesh
(Senior) Program Manager
Product Management

15+ Years of experience in AI and Big Data solutions to Financial & Travel sectors across MENA and APAC. Led digital transformation engagement, product management, analytics and value delivery across global/regional retail banks and airlines.
Karanveer Singh Bakshi
Director, Product Management

With 10+ years of experience, Priyanshu cut his teeth in Strategy Consulting and has been delivering AI-led Analytics for Banks over the past 8 years.
Priyanshu Mishra
Director, Product Management
Engineering

Sundar has 11 years of experience in building scalable web and data applications. He was one of the founding members of Crayon's Taste Graph. He drives the development of the platform and its features as well as ensuring it is secure and robust. And ensures that software architecture is robust, best practices are followed in development, and knowledge is shared.
Sundara Raghavan Sankaran
Director, Engineering

Shobana’s experience spans from leading and testing complex applications across different domains in large MNCs to building QA teams from scratch. As an expert in release management, she constantly looks for ways to improve the overall efficiency of delivery process by building robust automation frameworks.
Shobana Sathyanathan
Director, QA

Ragunath has 12+ years of experience as a Senior Solutions Architect in the Big Data, Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics space. Raghu has also donned multiple hats for Pre-Sales activities, POC's and Post-Sales implementation for multiple clients and has a proven track record in creating new market viable solutions and managing all phases of PDLC
Ragunath Venkatraman
Director, Engineering

Kani has 8 years of research experience, in academia & industry, in fields such as recommendation systems, graph learning, content understanding and computational linguistics. She leads efforts to diversify the data science team and passionate about using data science to build data products and personalized recommendation systems.
Kanimozhi U
Senior Manager, Data Science

Borus has 15+ years of experience in Security and Operations. He has donned multiple hats in the past - chief security officer and head of IT operations. With an insatiable craving for architecting consistent and reliable infrastructure , he currently leads the DevSecOps team making sure that Crayon and customer data are safe and secure on public clouds.
Borus RJ
Senior Manager, Devops
Customer Success

Sandeep Guruvindapalli
Director, Customer Success

Srideep has 12+ years experience in analytics, primarily in the BFSI space. Working with clients across US, ME & Asia, he has built and led large scale analytics teams to support multi-million dollar portfolios. He is passionate about storytelling through data and visualisation. And a true believer of the Crayon value #ThinkDataCraftExperiences!
Srideep Rudra
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Operations

With over 9 years of multi-faceted experience across Sales, Business Analytics, Consulting and Operations, Sethu’s expertise lies in streamlining business processes using Business Intelligence. He strongly advocates that a process driven organization delivers value and efficiency.
Sethu Ramalingam
Senior Manager, Business Operations & Strategy

Kelly has 9+ years of experience in the strategy and business operations space. As Chief of Staff at Crayon's Singapore office, she drives company-wide business planning and performance tracking. She has worked in recruitment, economic strategy and the maritime industry. This creative thinker is both meticulous and big picture driven.
Kelly Shia
Senior Manager, Business Operations & Strategy

13+ years of experience in IT recruitment and Operations. Specialist in Talent acquisition across all levels in the tech industry vertical.
Sujee Shalini
Senior Manager, HR