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I’m an analytics and AI leader with 12+ years building zero-to-one data and AI functions at high-growth consumer-tech and edtech companies. I’ve scaled analytics teams from a single hire to 25+ people, shipped LLM-powered and agentic AI products to 20K+ users, and owned the analytics behind INR 700 Cr+ in ad revenue. I work best where speed matters, resources are tight, and data needs to move the P&L directly. I’m passionate about turning data into measurable business impact, building high-performing teams, and delivering practical AI solutions that scale across products and markets.…I’m an analytics and AI leader with 12+ years building zero-to-one data and AI functions at high-growth consumer-tech and edtech companies. I’ve scaled analytics teams from a single hire to 25+ people, shipped LLM-powered and agentic AI products to 20K+ users, and owned the analytics behind INR 700 Cr+ in ad revenue. I work best where speed matters, resources are tight, and data needs to move the P&L directly. I’m passionate about turning data into measurable business impact, building high-performing teams, and delivering practical AI solutions that scale across products and markets.

Manu Mohan

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, AI Strategy Consultant, +2

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I’m an analytics and AI leader with 12+ years building zero-to-one data and AI functions at high-growth consumer-tech and edtech companies. I’ve scaled analytics teams from a single hire to 25+ people, shipped LLM-powered and agentic AI products to 20K+ users, and owned the analytics behind INR 700 Cr+ in ad revenue. I work best where speed matters, resources are tight, and data needs to move the P&L directly. I’m passionate about turning data into measurable business impact, building high-performing teams, and delivering practical AI solutions that scale across products and markets.…I’m an analytics and AI leader with 12+ years building zero-to-one data and AI functions at high-growth consumer-tech and edtech companies. I’ve scaled analytics teams from a single hire to 25+ people, shipped LLM-powered and agentic AI products to 20K+ users, and owned the analytics behind INR 700 Cr+ in ad revenue. I work best where speed matters, resources are tight, and data needs to move the P&L directly. I’m passionate about turning data into measurable business impact, building high-performing teams, and delivering practical AI solutions that scale across products and markets.

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I’m an analytics and AI leader with 12+ years building zero-to-one data and AI functions at high-growth consumer-tech and edtech companies. I’ve scaled analytics teams from a single hire to 25+ people, shipped LLM-powered and agentic AI products to 20K+ users, and owned the analytics behind INR 700 Cr+ in ad revenue. I work best where speed matters, resources are tight, and data needs to move the P&L directly.

I’m passionate about turning data into measurable business impact, building high-performing teams, and delivering practical AI solutions that scale across products and markets.

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Work Experience

Founder & Head of AI at Apna Cricket Team

December 1, 2022 - May 1, 2026

Founded and led an LLM-powered, agentic platform serving 20K+ fantasy-cricket users; built and managed a 5-person AI engineering team across model development, product, and growth. Designed a multi-agent architecture (Stadium, Player, and Match-up experts) reaching a near-zero hallucination rate and ~96% context retention on domain queries. Built a predictive sports-analytics stack trained on 4,000+ matches, powering real-time player scoring used during live IPL and international fixtures. Cut the user journey from 24 clicks to 3, doubling team-creation throughput while reducing per-query AI cost by 90%+ through prompt optimization and model routing. Led a 5-person AI engineering team across the full stack — data pipelines, models, prompt engineering, product, and go-to- market.

Director, Strategic Insights & Analytics at Lead School

November 1, 2020 - December 1, 2022

Built the analytics function from zero during 10x scale (300 → 3,000 schools). Hired and led a 25-person analytics & data-science org across five verticals (Product, Ops, Marketing, Leadership, Investor Relations) in under two years. Built a proprietary segmentation engine that lifted engagement 28% and stickiness 25%, directly improving cohort retention and NRR. Established a company-wide self-serve analytics layer (dashboards, governance, single source of truth) that became the backbone of C-suite and board decision-making. Produced investor-grade data packs that supported successful funding rounds.

Manager, Analytics — Strategy & Product at Disney+ Hotstar

September 1, 2018 - November 1, 2020

First hire for Ad-Analytics; built the team to 8 analysts within 12 months. Led IPL 2020 acquisition analytics, contributing to 14M new subscribers — one of India's largest single-event digital growth moments. Owned analytics for the INR 700 Cr+ ad-revenue portfolio; built client-level reporting and yield-optimization frameworks that set the standard for ad sales. Unlocked INR 50 Cr incremental revenue via audience segmentation and programmatic targeting, without increasing ad inventory. Redesigned ad-ops reporting to over-level granularity, lifting ad fill rate from 65% to 95%.

Manager, Business Intelligence at FabHotels

January 1, 2018 - August 1, 2018

Built a 10-member BI team and data systems (95%+ accuracy); drove room-night volume from 60K to 100K/month via data-driven pricing and supply optimization. Delivered board-level dashboards and investor analytics supporting Series B activities.

Sr. Business Analyst at Aptus Health (WebMD)

January 1, 2015 - December 1, 2017

Built predictive sales models (90%+ accuracy), cutting forecast turnaround from 3 days to 12 hours; improved marketing ROI 20% and halved acquisition costs.

Business Operations Associate at ZS Associates

January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015

Designed pharma go-to-market strategies; built Excel/VBA automation for field-force operations.