The Team

Aniruddha Pant

CEO AND FOUNDER
Aniruddha has a PhD in Control Systems from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds ~17 years of experience in the application of advanced mathematical techniques to various enterprise problems. His expertise spans Financial Engineering, Quantitative Trading, Hedging, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Control Theory.

Girish Patil

CFO
Girish has over 9 years of experience in fundamental equity research covering the Indian, US and Middle East markets. He holds interest and experience in the technical trading of markets, and in creating and analyzing balance sheets of companies. He has done his PGDBA, Pune.

Prashant Rane

COO
Prashant has overall 25+ years of IT Experience. He has performed various leadership roles & has led the product management and product engineering in start-up environments; & product and technology initiatives in Banking and Financial Services (BFS) vertical. He has worked extensively with technology product companies (Microsoft and Tandem). He has enormous experience in software product engineering lifecycle and its execution at onsite/offshore. He has also been instrumental in organization level initiatives such as defining and executing strategies for recruitment and branding.

Anand Deshpande

Chief Strategy Officer
A Ph.D. from the University of Colorado USA, Anand is an expert in mathematical modeling & algorithms, numerical methods & optimization, engineering simulations, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, parallel & high-performance computing with more than 20 years of research and development experience in word-class research organizations in both India and the USA. Anand also founded and led Asquared.ai, a company that merged into AlgoAnalytics in 2021. Specializes in Numerical Methods and Mathematical Optimization, Engineering Simulations (FEM/CFD), Engineering Design Optimization, Multi-Disciplinary Optimization, Parallel Computing and High-Performance Computing.

Sudarshan Mahabal

Chief Technology Officer
Seasoned technology leader with 25+ years of global experience leading data science professionals across the USA & India. A Cisco veteran with 21+ years in BI/ML/IT/Strategy leadership roles with a flair for teaching Data Science at some of India’s top business & engineering institutions. BE(Prod) VJTI Mumbai, MBA SFSU California, Strategy - Standford Univ. Published fiction author, avid hiker, a disciple of Indian classical vocal, Salsa dancer, and a Bollywood music buff.

Dr. Sharda Bapat

HEAD - HEALTHCARE DOMAIN
Sharda's medical background is a great boon towards propelling AlgoAnalytics into innovating in the field of medicine. With a Diploma in Computer Applications and a law degree, Sharda was a part of a successful business venture for 15 years. She then developed a keen interest for medicine due to her mother’s protracted illness. She completed her MD from Angeles University Foundation’s School of Medicine, Philippines and is now interested in working at the intersection of medicine and machine learning to improve healthcare.

Aletha Tavares

HEAD- HR & ADMIN
Aletha also co-ordinates the Knowledge Management activity within AlgoAnalytics. With a PhD in Archaeology – from specializing in Paleopathology looking at bare bones, she has moved into the realm of the living. She has 16+ years of experience that spans many fields including HR and Admin. Given her eclectic background, she has honed in her skills towards working with the resources and assets of the Company to help organizations grow. Her love for reading led her to co-found a library and freelance as a content writer. She is also passionate about her work for the welfare of street animals.

Sayali Mahashur

Consultant- Finance Domain
Sayali heads our Marketing and Branding initiatives at AlgoAnalytics. She also manages various Data Science projects, besides handling the Fintech domain Sayali has worked in finance industry for 8+ years doing fund management and equity research on buy as well as sell side. Her passion for teaching has led her to be on the visiting faculty of many esteemed institutes in Pune conducting post graduate finance courses for last 5 years.