Vishal Kedia

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ABOUT VISHAL KEDIA

Over 20 years of experience in technology consulting and leadership roles across global organizations, helping banking, insurance (P&C and Life) and other financial services CIO, CTO, CDO, CAO\'s leveraging data, analytics, Generative AI/ LLM models, AI/ML for business growth, customer experience, regulatory reporting (CCPA, GDPR etc.), and legacy platform modernization (to Guidewire, Duck creek etc.). I like to connect and collaborate with like minded people who have the drive to succeed and willing to take the path less traveled.Specialties:Strategy & Consulting, Enterprise Data Management, Cloud Data Platform Modernization, Insurance COTS products (Guidewire, Duck creek), Social Styles, Business Planning & Execution, Practice & Competency Development, Strategic Account Management, Large Deal Pursuit, Customer & Service Analytics, Data Governance, Enterprise Solution ArchitectureExperience Highlights - Trusted advisor for data leadership and has helped define data strategy, platform architecture along with KPIs definition (across P&C value chain) for various financial services customers- As a practice leader in D&A develop/conceptualize various data products and tools to accelerate business value realization and grow the overall practice. Responsible for almost $70M portfolio and grew the same y-o-y on average 40%-As a GenAI Insurance Solution Lead, led a team of 20+ architects/developers with expertise in effective LLM based architecture on Azure/Snowflake platform (OpenAI, CortexAI etc.) with focus on RAG based approach -Ideated, build and deliver FIVE+ solutions (Underwriting Assistant, Medical Claim Summarization, Treaty Document Comparison for Reinsurance, FNOL Claim Analyzer, and Insurance Data Life Cycle Mgmt. Automation), with annual productivity savings of >$10M, which led to win $2M incremental net new revenue in GenAI space for P&C customers and build an active pipeline of $5M- For leading P&C insurer in west coast led a team of 150+ associates (in onsite/offshore model) for data transformation with primary programs such as Guidewire Data Conversion (with automated conversion & reconciliation tools and dashboards for 26 states), Near Realtime Guidewire ODS (both Policy & Claims), Claims BI reporting, MDM, Migrate DW on Snowflake, Customer Data Lake on AWS - to improve metrics such as NPS,TCO (reduce by 30%),cross sell/up sell, combined ratio, conversion ratio etc- For a mid size Auto insurer in mid-west, help define and implement (team size 30+) modern data platform on AWS with data vault modeling