COMPANY BACKGROUND
ABOUT US
We motivate Transformations for
creating Smarter Industries
Our philosophy is “Attention to Scale”, and we are in the process of democratizing the adoption of Digital in the new normal of post-COVID era. Every customer is unique and our propositions are tailor-made to address the customer’s appetite and scale.
We strongly believe that the work we do, will impact the lives of our future generations – in the way they live, in the way they educate themselves, in the way they interact and in the way they transact.
Leadership Team
SmartIND is not just an undertaking. We are led by an exciting mix of diverse evangelists who share more than 70 years of experience between them. The leaders bring about global standards of best industry practices and have proven success stories in the field of transformation-led outcomes. The have worked with some of the most innovative corporate and public sector enterprises, helping them leverage technology and outsourcing in our specific areas of expertise.
Our leaders are supported by a team of young and dynamic technology enthusiasts who are skilled at
multi-disciplinary engagements in the area of creating smarter industries.
Praveen Mishra
Praveen Mishra has over 20 years of experience as an astute investment banker with exposure to global hedge-fund associates across UK, Dubai and Singapore. Currently he serves as the Chairman for a boutique investment bank, raising funds to the tune of $100M for its clients through Private Equity, Venture Capital and Institutional Investors.
Praveen has led diversified business groups majorly into Investment Banking, Real-Estate Constructions & Advisory, Brand Management & PMC for F&B chains and has also been a banker himself towards the early part of his career.
In these different capacities, he has served a diverse range of customers with some of the notable ones like helping incubate an Ecommerce Major, guiding the cross-country expansion of a food-retail platform, establishing the mobility strategy of a payment bank, driving the M&A for a hotel chain, and shaping the investments for a Solar Power Plant.
Currently he also serves as an advisor to certain economic development boards where his prime responsibilities are debt-structuring and portfolio advisory.
At SmartIND, he is spearheading our customer engagements and go-to-market developments.
Angshuman Bhattacharya
Angshuman Bhattacharya has 2 decades of experience cutting across solutions development and business management. An entrepreneur in the area of data science and machine learning, he has demonstrated success in consulting for Fortune 500 and top Indian and APAC enterprises. Having been a pioneer in solving business problems for SMBs across the world, he has been instrumental in setting up teams both as an entrepreneur and as a corporate evangelist.
Having dedicated his entire experience to sales, marketing and customer analytics across different industry domains, Angshuman has a natural flair for product development, client consulting, and project delivery. He was instrumental in leading Analytics squads at Cognizant and was also responsible for setting up the Analytics outfit for Wipro, based out of Calcutta, India.
Angshuman is a regular speaker at key industry events and his most notable achievement was to evolve his recent entrepreneurial endeavor into one of the top 10 analytics companies in India, while serving customers across US, Europe, India and South Asia. His credentials are testimony to the depth of AI-ML solutions and transformational tool development he has brought about over the years.
At SmartIND, Angshuman is serving as the Managing Director and Founder of the enterprise.
Jayanta Chowdhury
Jayanta Chowdhury has 30 years of experience spanning across different roles serving the society at large. He has mostly been an entrepreneur during his life, having set up a range of different entities in sectors ranging from Chemical Manufacturing, Bottling Units, F&B Retail, Real-Estate Constructions, Agro-Based Industries and IT peripherals.
He has deep rooted experience of working with state-governments and public sector, and was also briefly associated with non-profit organizations involving rural development. Jayanta has been instrumental in developing tourism initiatives, managing land-bank projects and promoting organic farming estates in conjunction with NABARD initiatives.
Jayanta is a visionary in rural-welfare projects, and works closely with different corporations seeking investment routes for their CSR initiatives.
At SmartIND, he is a key member to the Advisory Board, and one of our co-founders.
Advisory Board
Our Advisory board has eminent industry leaders, who oversee the strategic guidance of SMartIND, and contribute towards the growth charter.
Our members come from diverse backgrounds with a healthy mix of technology expertise and industry domains. They have worked across different geographies, have been customers in their own fold while excelling at providing services as well. Their depth of capabilities span across consulting, IT, service excellence and transformation models. Most of them have made early footprints in the world of Artificial Intelligence and IoT as well.
It is a matter of pride for us to host our advisory leadership from a range of industries like CPG, Retail, Real Estate, Telco, Manufacturing, Ecommerce.