Management Team
Dr Vishvesh Pathak
Founder & Co-Innovator
Vishvesh is a founding director of Strategic Ratings, a credit ratings agency of CEO24X7 Limited. He has more than 23 years of professional work experience in consulting, retail, higher education, construction and manufacturing industries. Vishvesh has worked for world renowned FTSE100 listed multi-national enterprises in the UK and one of the national brands in India. His research is focussed on strategic management, corporate resilience and reliability analyses, credit ratings and sustainability of companies including organisational performance measurement. His doctoral research study included a development of new approach for credit ratings of companies publicly traded on London, New York and Bombay stock exchanges which had more than 100 index constituent companies of FTSE100 (UK100), DJIA (US30), S&P500 and BSE SENSEX in seven manufacturing and service industries.
He holds PhD from Brunel University, London; MBA from University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom and BEng. in Civil Engineering from NIT Calicut, India. He also holds Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education from Brunel University, London and Diploma in Export-Import Management from Indian Institute of Materials Management, India.
Mr Abhishek Kumar
Chief Ratings Officer
Abhishek is a seasoned risk management consultant with expertise in credit risk modelling. He has extensive experience in using state of the art statistical and econometric techniques in credit and market risk contexts. He is capable to deliver projects with multiple stakeholders and has a proven track record in risk and regulatory initiatives having expertise in financial regulations.
Abhishek is expert in managing critical responsibilities in various credit risk domains e.g. Basel II/III, PD, LGD and EAD modeling, stress testing, economic capital calculations, portfolio management, risk appetite, loss forecasting and gap analysis. He has excellent knowledge of various mathematical, statistical, econometric and machine learning models. Abhishek holds Master’s and Bachelor’s in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and he is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in London, UK.
Dr Santosh Tirunagari
Chief Technology Officer
Dr Tirunagari has more than a decade of professional experience as a Software Developer as well as a Data Scientist. His research interests include probabilistic machine learning and statistical signal processing with applications to computer vision and natural language processing. He has obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Surrey in 2017. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed research publications and has won awards including the best research potential and the best presentation awards at various top-tier conferences. He is also a recipient of the 2018 CogX Award for 'Outstanding contribution in Artificial Intelligence – Post Doc Research'.
Dr Tirunagari is also an Honorary Assistant Professor at Middlesex University, London. Previously he has worked with Medecode solutions, Rofous software, Aalto University, University of Surrey, and Synoptic Technologies Ltd.
Prior to his doctorate, Dr Tirunagari has obtained B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and MSc.(Tech.) by Research from Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Finland.
Shyam Satheendranath
Business Director
Shyam is a talented and enthusiastic data professional who has excellent organisational skills, is highly efficient and has a good eye for detail. Shyam has worked with Nationwide Building Society, Lloyds Banking Group and The Number UK (118118) for more than a decade in client facing roles. He is proficient in applications of Teradata SQL Assistant and Teradata Aster, Hive QL (Hadoop), Oracle, Git, Map Reduce, VBA (Visual Basic), Python/Shell Scripting, Tableau, SAP Business Object and Microsoft Power BI. He has extensive experience in using advanced analytical methods, analysing problems and contribute with creative solutions as well as producing methodologies and designing excellent data layers for effective data management systems. Shyam approaches each task with enthusiasm and confidence and delivers the highest standards whilst always raising the bar for himself and the team. Shyam has obtained BSc (Physics) and MBA (International Marketing).
Madhuri Valiakath
Associate Director
Madhuri is an experienced risk management professional with several years of experience in the insurance industry as a product management actuary. She has worked with reputed multinational names like Allianz, American International Assurance, BNP Paribas and General Electric. She has been involved in the initial teams of 2 start-up insurance companies in India. Her expertise is in setting up initial systems and processes for new businesses. She has a varied international exposure having worked in India, Thailand, USA and collaborating with teams in Germany, France and Hong Kong. She holds a Master’s in Applied Actuarial Science from University of Kent, United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Pune, India.
Dr Mehdi Sarsar
Chief Analytics Officer
Dr Mehdi Sarsar is a senior consultant and an executive doctor in Business administration. He received a doctorate from the Paris school of Business, an advanced master in Entrepreneurship from HEC University of Liège and an MSc in Electronics and Automation from the Bordeaux university of Science and technology, France.
Vivek Bokinala
Associate Director
Vivek Bokinala has more than 20 years of IT experience including data science roles. Vivek has worked for the UK local authority organisation as a risk analyst. He has experience in designing frameworks, building models, deploying machine learning algorithms within big data environments.
Vivek has worked for Tata consultancy services, Delta Class solutions and Gloucestershire county council. He is experienced in solving complex big data problems by building predictive and statistical models, discovering trends, time series analysis and forecasting (ARIMA models) and presenting actionable insights. He is proficient in the applications of logistic regression, K-Means segmentation/clustering, random forest, Bayesian networks and time series analysis; experienced in product recommendation techniques including market analysis and collaborative filtering, visualisations using Python/R libraries including GGPLOT2 and Tableau, analysing and predicting web-based data signals using NLP. He has experience of building API's for interactive predictive machine learning applications using R-shiny and Python flask and utilising analytical and statistical packages like R, Python (SKLearn, Pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, Seaborn), SQL, Jupyter Notebooks.
Vivek is in the final year of PhD programme in Computer Science at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on the natural language modelling of the news articles in extracting a set of causal or risk factors in the agriculture industry. Vivek holds MTech in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, a double post-graduation with an MSc and BSc in Mathematics from Osmania University, India.