Braj Thakur

About Braj Thakur

I have purposefully built up proven, well-rounded, pragmatic AI expertise. I aim to share and extend my impact by driving high-value outcomes across Healthcare, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing industries. I help capture global lighthouse accounts ($-$) with complex enterprise needs by:1⃣Helping organizations turn-around struggling AI adoption projects2⃣Elevating the brand by penetrating into thought leaders’ agendas as a voice with battle-tested AI deployments3⃣Connecting & consulting with top client executives to build both long-term customer & solution partnerships4⃣Defining strategies to capture growth opportunities & deliver Tech-driven transformation 5⃣Bringing commercialization experience with 27 successful digital services across AI, ML, SaaS & Mobility6⃣Positioning the portfolio advantageously, creating playbooks & campaigns to acquire new customers & expand the addressable marketPlease reach out, I would love to share – whether about your strategic goals, challenges with AI – or about gardening or interesting history books. I have spent my career creating measurable value from innovation to commercialization- AWS, WSJ, Gartner, HBR and Wharton recognized AI leadership 14 US PATENTS Sales Enablement Portfolio and Product Strategy Strategic AI, ML & NLP Partnerships Leading and Mentoring Teams Healthcare (Provider, Payer & LS) Expertise Direct Customer & Industry Analysts Relations Gardner-(see ):(-)- AI to automate document heavy, high volume, complex workflow for a very large payer resulting,% & 10 Gen AI successful use cases to build GenAI Strategy for US Payers, 2024 & Q4-2023 investor call identified Ricoh as a leader in GenAI adoption - Partnership for a complete overhaul of Ricoh’s digital services delivery model recognition for GenAI LLM Training with synthetic data for regulatory compliances - How AI complements human work, importance of cost-effective solutions & employee engagement

Experience

1. Sr Director, Strategic Sales and Ai Growth

   Ricoh USA, Inc.

   May 2024 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Go-to expert for high-value, high-stakes opportunities, and transformative technology initiatives at RICOH. Cultivates and maintains direct customer relationships with the top 20 Fortune 500 global manufacturers, healthcare, and banking clients. Trusted advisor to C-suite executives in turning their complex operational challenges into measurable business success. I focus on helping customers accelerate AI adoption, maximize ROI on technology investments, and unlock efficiencies. These customer successes have translated into market expansion and capture multiple global lighthouse accounts over $500M revenue.

Education

• Webster University

  MBA, Business Administration

  2000 — 2003

• Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya

  B.Sc., Maths, Physics

  1986 — 1988

• Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya

  MCA, Master of Computer Applications

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• Management
• Itil
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Paas
• Product Marketing
• Telecommunications
• Lead Generation
• Storage
• Consulting
• Product Management
• Wireless
• Cloud Computing
• Market Research
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Cloud Computing Iaas
• Unix
• Solution Selling
• Lte
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Alliances
• Business Intelligence
• Saas
• Marketing
• B2b
• Databases
• Leadership
• Strategy
• Product Launch
• Pre-Sales
• Mobile Applications
• Partnerships
• Sdlc
• Analytics
• Salesforce.com
• Virtualization
• Office 365
• Project Planning
• Mobile Devices
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership