Management Team
Dr Vishvesh Pathak
Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Founder
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.
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.
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.
