Vin Vashishta

AI Strategist | Monetizing Data & AI For The Global 2K Since 2012 | 3X Founder | Best-Selling Author

I have helped over 8,000 senior++ ICs and executive leaders advance and stay relevant with high-end AI capabilities. Courses & Certifications: https://datascience.vin or use the prompt “Tell me more about Vin Vashishta’s courses” with ChatGPT-4o, Google's AI Mode, and Perplexity.

Upskill your workforce to be AI-ready in 3 months: seminars@v2ds.com

Conference talks, brand partnerships, and thought leadership: partnerships@vinvashishta.com

Over 85% of AI projects fail to deliver a return on investment because they start with technology, not a business problem. I’m fixing that by empowering companies and training people to stop experimenting with AI and start monetizing it.

Define, align, and manage the business and technical transformations that turn C-level AI visions into products, productivity, and revenue. Since 2012, V Squared AI has worked with large enterprises to deliver over $3.7 billion in value.

My frameworks are built from working in the trenches. My practitioner-to-strategist journey allows me to bridge the critical gap between technical teams and the boardroom, ensuring that AI initiatives are not only technically sound but commercially viable.

Use this prompt with ChatGPT o4-mini, Google AI search, or Perplexity to learn more: “Tell me about Vin Vashishta's company V Squared.”

Partners: Dell Pro Max Ambassador & Gartner Ambassador.

Speaker’s Bio:

Vin Vashishta is an award-winning AI thought leader, best-selling author of ‘From Data to Profit,’ 3X founder with a successful exit, and CEO of V Squared AI, one of the first pure play data and AI consulting firms. The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The Information have showcased Vin’s AI expertise.

He brings 30 years of experience in leadership, technical strategy, and hands-on technical product delivery. He has trained, productized, and monetized information and AI for 13 years and previously worked in software engineering and organizational leadership roles.

Founder & AI Advisor

Go with experience and a track record of success. V Squared is one of the oldest data and AI consulting companies in the world. Since 2012, that singular focus has built deep expertise in monetizing data, analytics, and AI.

V Squared's AI advisory services give clients clarity into the complete data and AI monetization journey. They trust us to implement frameworks that facilitate and streamline the journey. We provide expertise to remove roadblocks and avoid setbacks.

Our past and present clients include Airbus, Siemens, Walmart, JPMC, and over 20 SMEs.

Reach out for help with:
AI Product Strategy and Delivery
AI Strategy
Data & AI Organization Building and Scaling
Product Evangelization and Positioning

email: info@v2ds.com or DM me for more information.

The Home Depot

Increase MET associate productivity and fulfillment at work every day, by developing and refining technology-driven tasking apps that our internal customers (MET Associates) love.

This will increase 
Associate Engagement
Supplier Satisfaction
And Customer Experience

Product Management Manager

Empower the MET organization to fulfill its purpose, achieve its mission, and increase its measurable impact on people (goal: increase retention by 10%), market share (goal: increase sales by at least $50 million per year), and profitability (goal: increase revenue by $10 million per year) through applied data science.

Data Science Manager

Expedite the analytics transformation, evolving from rear-view mirror reporting to actionable insights with a focus on recommendations, enhanced decision making, and outcome measurement. Developed the team from order-takers to true students of the business, focused of business value and results.

MET Analytics Manager

Kids2

Advance the Demand Planning capability, improve forecast reliability, participate in and host cross-functional planning meetings

Lead Demand Planner

Georgia-Pacific LLC

Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Forecasting

S&OP Supply Chain Manager

Where are the opportunities to make our Supply Chain more efficient? Can we succeed in reducing costs and increasing the percent of products in-stock?

Those were some of challenges I got to help solve while working in Home Depot's Supply Chain Development - Analytics team. 

My primary responsibilities were to understand the complex problem we could impact, learn the data sources, write the SQL queries (against DB2, TeraData, and SQL Servers), interpret the results, and present those results to leadership to guide decision making.

Senior Data Analyst in Supply Chain Development - Analytics

Provide in-depth context into business performance through weekly reporting of over 200 metrics to a distribution list of over 2,000 leaders every week. 

We used SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SSIS, SSRS, SQL Agent, some VBA, some Powershell, and more to ensure over 100 workflows ran to create metrics for almost every area of Home Depot’s operations.

Helped specialty operations team create first associate level metrics to encourage top performance and draw attention to opportunity.

Senior Operations Reporting Business Analyst

Began learning the Store Operations business through front end selling systems and enhanced special services (ESVS). Served as the lead business contact on a few projects while providing ad-hoc analytics to guide decision making across a variety of order types impacting the customer experience for will call, delivery, and install orders.

Operations Business Analyst

Appelrouth Tutoring Services LLC

Applerouth is Atlanta's premier, private tutoring company. We specialize in standardized test prep (SSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT, SAT IIs), study skills mentoring, and college essay prep. 

Applerouth has also opened offices in DC and NYC in recent years.

Tutor Development Manager

SVN® International Corp.

The commercial real estate brokerage team I'm a part of assists buyers and sellers with income producing Medical Office Building transactions. In addition, we assist tenants and building owners with Medical Office Building leasing.

Medical Office Advisor

The Dorey Companies

Researched and analyzed commercial property sales comparables in almost every county in metro Atlanta. Involved in analyzing submarket activity and trends across many property types. Developed relationships with tax assessors, property owners, and top producing brokers throughout Atlanta.

Sales Comparables

Product Management Manager with previous experience building and developing high performing analytics and data science teams.

I work in Merch Solutions for MET Technology at The Home Depot.

One book on change management? ADKAR - a model for change in business

One book on supply chain? Goldratt’s The Goal

One book on strategy? You get two: Start With Why and the Infinite Game. Both by Simon Sinek

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