Alok Bhanot

Alok Bhanot has a diverse and extensive work experience in various technology and business roles. Their most recent position is as the Chief Technology Officer & EVP at ParkourSC, a company that specializes in delivering visibility, intelligence, and automation solutions in supply chain operations. Alok is responsible for leading a team that utilizes IoT, AI/ML, and advanced analytics to create digital twins of supply chains and provide intelligent solutions for location, utilization, and anomaly detection.

Before joining ParkourSC, Alok was a board member and the Founder & CEO of Qopper Inc., an IoT network for smart operations. During their tenure, they led the company's vision of reimagining how we experience the build world and wired retail and commercial spaces with sensors and smart devices.

Alok has also been active as a seed investor in Silicon Valley technology companies in the areas of commerce, payments, and related infrastructure. Alok has been a member of Quona Circle and LP Quona Capital, two organizations focused on investing in technology startups for financial inclusion in emerging markets. Alok is also an affiliate at WIN: Webb Investment Network, where they provide expertise to companies at all stages of their life cycle.

In their role as an Executive Advisor, Alok has worked closely with growth stage e-commerce and payments businesses, providing board and CEO advisory services. Alok has expertise in innovation, growth, and digital transformation, utilizing new infrastructure, scaling techniques, and technology platforms. Alok was also an expert-in-residence at RippleWorks, where they connected Silicon Valley expertise with social enterprises around the world.

Earlier in their career, Alok served as the Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Verifone, where they were responsible for the company's global technology and operations. Alok also founded and served as the CEO of Inkiru, Inc., a predictive intelligence platform that utilized real-time predictive analytics for big data challenges. Inkiru's platform transformed customer interactions and enabled businesses to personalize experiences, improve loyalty, reduce fraud, and improve profit. The company was acquired by Walmart in 2013.

Alok has also held leadership positions at PayPal and eBay, where they played a key role in risk technology and corporate architecture, respectively. At PayPal, they managed global engineering design and development teams and scaled the transactional capabilities of the fraud platform. At eBay, Alok created and led a corporate function focused on defining the technology vision and creating an interoperable architecture across different business units. Alok also built a world-class architecture function that supported and scaled the eBay site.

Early in their career, Alok was the CTO of Gradience, Inc., which provided information technology and tools for contextual integration of disparate sources into a browser-based application. Alok also worked as a consultant for payment systems at eToys, Inc., where they implemented payments, fulfillment, and fraud infrastructure for the e-commerce retailer.

Overall, Alok Bhanot's work experience showcases their expertise in technology, innovation, digital transformation, and leadership roles across various industries.

Alok Bhanot completed their Bachelor of Engineering degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee from 1986 to 1990. Prior to that, they attended Delhi Public School in India, but no specific degree or field of study information is available for that period.