Srikanth Velamakanni

Srikanth Velamakanni is the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive and Vice Chairman of Fractal. Fractal is a leading player in the artificial intelligence and transformative enterprise decision making space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and to use the power of AI to help the world’s most admired Fortune 100 companies. Since Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, the company has raised more than USD 300 million from institutional private equity investors. Fractal serves more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with its AI, data and analytics driven business strategies. Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several product lines within the company including Crux Intelligence, Eugenie.ai, Theremin.ai, Qure.ai, Samya.ai and Senseforth.ai. Srikanth is the Chair of the board of Qure.ai, that recently raised USD 16MM in funding, less than three years after incubation.
Srikanth is Co-founder and Trustee of Plaksha University, with a strong academic focus on core engineering, AIML and mathematics. Additionally, Plaksha promotes interdisciplinary learning by bringing together science and the liberal arts. A member of the NASSCOM Executive Council Srikanth serves as a subject matter expert on data and AI.
Srikanth’s passion for AI and analytics has made him a thought leader in the space and an admired public speaker. He considers himself a lifelong student of mathematics, behavioral economics, neuroscience and consumer behavior. Srikanth reads an average of 40 non-fiction books a year on the aforementioned subjects. He also enjoys memoirs, biographies and books on leadership. An active follower of developments in US politics, Srikanth enjoys keeping abreast of late-night American talk shows particularly those hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Hassan Minhaj.
Srikanth completed his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and holds an MBA in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. Prior to co-founding Fractal, he was an investment banker working on structured debt and CDOs.