Dhiraj Raikantiwar

DATA & AI TRANSFORMATION LEADER

From signalto scale.

I turn complex data into trusted decisions and lasting capability.

SELECTED TRANSFORMATIONS

Decisions that change the business.

Customer risk intelligence

Shaped the data and analytics capability behind a customer risk profile analyzer for wholesale banking in Singapore.

Content investment decisions

Turned ambiguous Akamai behavioral logs into evidence for digital bonus-content investment decisions.

Pricing & promotion strategy

Connected pricing, promotion, assortment, and effectiveness decisions through trusted data and analytics enablement.

Enterprise work anonymized

THE EXECUTIVE SERIES

Decisions before dashboards.

Short, evidence-led briefings on the business choices behind data, AI, and market performance.

EPISODE01

EXECUTIVE DECISION BRIEF

Target's Q2 Momentum

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THE PROFESSIONAL ARC

16+ years across engineering, consulting, enterprise delivery, and leadership.

Experience across India, Singapore, and the United States shaped a practical leadership style: technically grounded, commercially aware, and built for complex organizations.

2023—NOW

Manager, Data DeliveryPetSmart

Enterprise delivery leadership across data products, platforms, and AI-assisted ways of working.

2021—2023

Data leadership progressionPetSmart

Four roles since joining, with expanding scope across commercial data and delivery.

2012—2021

Consulting & analytics leadershipInfoCepts

Cross-industry programs spanning financial services, media, and enterprise analytics.

2010—2011

Early engineering foundationPersistent Systems

Built the technical grounding that still informs product and platform decisions.

EDUCATION & SELECT CREDENTIALS

  • MBA, Organizational LeadershipEastern University · 2026 · GPA 3.88
  • BE, Computer EngineeringUniversity of Pune
  • Building Reliable Conversational Agents with GenieDatabricks Academy · 2026
  • Forward ProgramMcKinsey.org · 2025
  • Google Data Analytics · SAFe 5 PO/PM2022 · 2021

I still build.

Personal products that turn noisy information into a clear next decision.

01 / VALORA

Property intelligence from whatever you have.

Built to organize messy property inputs into sourced facts that a buyer can confirm before analysis begins. Maharashtra-first, with explicit evidence and risk boundaries.

VALORALIVE PRODUCT

GIVE US ANYTHING YOU HAVE

Drop anything.
The AI organises it.

Listing · brochure · RERA · notes
Source-awareFacts firstHuman confirmed

02 / WORTH IT?

A clearer answer before you buy.

A working AI deal advisor for marketplace listings. It turns a URL, image, or description into a value range, decision signals, and a practical negotiation starting point.

WORTH IT?LIVE PRODUCT

REAL AI DEAL & VALUATION ADVISOR

Know the value before you buy.

LISTING OR DESCRIPTIONEvaluate deal →
Real estateCarsTechCollectibles

Three transformations. One leadership pattern.

Make the signal useful.
Make the change last.

01

Wholesale banking · Singapore

Customer risk intelligence

CONTEXT

Risk signals lived across complex data and operating boundaries. Leaders needed a clearer, more consistent view of each customer before they could act with confidence.

THE DECISION

Frame the work around the decisions relationship and risk teams needed to make, then organize the data product around those moments.

MY OWNERSHIP

Led end-to-end product shaping and owned the data, analytics, and enablement work across an approximately 100-person cross-functional program.

WHAT CHANGED

Created a shared path from fragmented signals to an actionable customer risk profile, aligning product, data, analytics, and business teams around one operating outcome.

End-to-end product shapingData and analytics ownership~100-person cross-functional program
02

Global media

Content investment decisions

CONTEXT

A media business had rich delivery logs but no dependable way to understand whether digital bonus content changed audience behavior or justified further investment.

THE DECISION

Treat the logs as a behavioral evidence source, translate them into decision-ready measures, and connect usage patterns to the bonus-content portfolio.

MY OWNERSHIP

Owned the data and analytics enablement, from interpreting ambiguous event data through shaping the product questions and measurement approach.

WHAT CHANGED

Gave product and investment leaders a clearer basis for deciding which bonus experiences deserved attention, refinement, or reduced investment.

Ambiguous-log interpretationDecision-focused measurementCross-functional product enablement
03

Enterprise retail

Pricing & promotion strategy

CONTEXT

Pricing, promotion, and assortment choices touched many teams, while different data views made it harder to learn what worked and choose where to invest next.

THE DECISION

Build a dependable analytical foundation around the commercial questions: what to sell, how to price it, when to promote it, and how to measure effectiveness.

MY OWNERSHIP

Owned data, analytics, and AI enablement within an approximately 100-person cross-functional program, connecting strategy with delivery.

WHAT CHANGED

Established a more coherent decision system for commercial teams and a reusable foundation for evaluating pricing and promotion choices.

Commercial decision framingData and AI enablement~100-person cross-functional program

Strategy becomes real through the system around it.

My leadership operating system moves from decision framing to durable capability.

01

Shape the decision

Start with the executive choice, the operating constraint, and the evidence required to move.

02

Build trust into the system

Make quality, governance, ownership, and explainability part of the product, from the start.

03

Orchestrate the change

Align product, engineering, analytics, and business teams around a shared sequence of outcomes.

04

Leave durable capability

Create platforms, practices, and leaders that keep improving after the initial transformation.

“The goal is not a smarter dashboard. It is a stronger decision, made repeatedly.”

Let's turn your most complex data into an advantage.