Kedar Parikh

Kedar Parikh has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Kedar is currently serving as the Chief Product Officer at Netcore Cloud since May 2022. Prior to this role, they held the positions of Senior Vice President - Product Management, Product Head and Group Vice President - Product Management at Netcore Cloud from April 2020 to May 2022 and April 2018 to March 2020, respectively. Additionally, they served as the AVP Engineering at Netcore Cloud from July 2015 to March 2018, where they were responsible for architecting and building India's leading full-spectrum omni-channel marketing automation solution. Kedar also built a real-time event processing system capable of handling 4 billion events per day.

In 2019, Kedar Parikh also served as an Honorary Member of the Committee on AI and Big Data at the Internet and Mobile Association of India from February 2019 to August 2022.

Before joining Netcore Cloud, Kedar Parikh worked at MSCI Inc. from July 2009 to June 2015. Kedar held the position of Senior Associate - Data Management, where they provided investment decision support tools to global investors.

Prior to MSCI Inc., Kedar Parikh worked at Netcore Solutions as an Assistant Manager - Mobility from March 2006 to July 2009. In this role, they played an instrumental role in creating benchmark mobile products and services.

Before Netcore Solutions, Kedar Parikh worked at Mobile2win as a Software Engineer - Mobile Gaming from April 2005 to March 2006. Kedar developed mobile games and applications for clients in India and overseas.

Kedar Parikh started their career at CDAC as a Technical Associate from November 2004 to April 2005.

Kedar Parikh's education history is as follows:

Kedar completed a Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication from S.H.J.P. in 1998. From 2000 to 2004, they pursued a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Computers from RAIT, affiliated with Mumbai University. In 2005, they obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology from CDAC.

Later, in 2008, they enrolled at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and completed a Master's in Information Management (MIM) in 2011. In 2017, they pursued a Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence (PGP-BABI) from Great Lakes Institute of Management, which they completed in 2018.

Furthermore, Kedar has obtained various certifications throughout their career. Notably, they obtained the AWS Technical Essentials certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in July 2022. In 2020, they attained certifications in Tableau Author and Tableau Consumer from Tableau Software. Additionally, they completed the Product Masterclass: How to Build and Grow Product Teams from Product School in August 2020.

In recent years, Kedar has focused on gaining expertise in AI and related fields. In 2023, they obtained several certifications from LinkedIn, including Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI, Product Management: Building a Product Strategy, Product Marketing foundations, Prompt Engineering: How to Talk to the AIs, and Introduction to Conversational AI. Prior to that, in 2023, they also received certifications in Generative AI for Business Leaders and Leading with Innovation from LinkedIn.

Other certifications that Kedar has obtained include R for data visualization and analytics from CDAC (year not specified), Deep Learning Certificate Program from Great Lakes Institute of Management, and The complete NFT course from Udemy: Online Courses (specific dates not provided).