Tushar Shekhar

Tushar Shekhar currently serves as Senior Director of Decision Science at Lyric since September 2024. Previously, Tushar held the position of Vice President of Innovation and New Product at Smartlinks from March 2023 to February 2024, and was India Head at Kami Vision from May 2022 to February 2023. Tushar's earlier experience includes serving as Director of R&D at Blue Yonder from July 2018 to May 2022, and as Senior Project Manager and Senior Technical Architect at JDA Software from August 2006 to July 2018, focusing on supply planning software. Tushar began the career as Lead Software Engineer at Integral India from March 2003 to August 2006 and worked as a Research Consultant at IIT Kharagpur from May 2001 to March 2003. Tushar holds a B. Tech in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1997-2001) and a degree in General Management for IT Executives from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2015-2016). The professional background emphasizes transformational research, engineering, leadership, optimization, supply chain, AI-ML, and SaaS.