Mihir Kittur, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Ugam, a Merkle company, is recognized as one of India’s Most Influential AI Leaders in 2021. The accolade was announced in prominent publication, Analytics India Magazine’s annual list.
There is an increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) across industries over the past decade. The list recognizes leaders who have spearheaded the development of state-of-the-art AI solutions to drive innovation and growth for their company and clients.
Mihir was recognized for his customer-centric mindset that approaches every client ask with “What are we trying to solve for?”, and then leverages the necessary AI and analytics to solve it. He has been influential in embedding this approach through Ugam’s multidisciplinary teams, which comprise of soft skills like consulting and problem-solving, and hard skills like statistical techniques and technology.
Moreover, he has played a major role in pioneering Ugam’s JARVIS, a proprietary cognitive computing system. It is built on a tried, tested, and tailored suite of machine learning algorithms that enable computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, and more. Recently, at Ugam’s Golden Pyramid Awards, their multidisciplinary team was recognized for their trailblazing breakthrough in ‘making data science accessible’ by enabling the development of ML-models using a no-code technique.
Mihir Kittur, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Ugam said, “Businesses are increasingly adopting AI. For the best results, one should start with the customer problem, and then leverage the necessary AI and analytics to solve it (“Intelligence before Artificial”). At Ugam, we have successfully implemented this approach through our multidisciplinary teams to drive superior impact for large corporations. It is an honor to be recognized as one of India’s Most Influential AI Leaders by Analytics India Magazine.”