RESUME
20+ Years of Exp.
AI Head
Ex-CTO
Inventor
Stanford Seed Spark & ISB Alum
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
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Senior AI executive and serial inventor (12 patents in AI/AGI/Edge AI) with 20+ years turning research into revenue-generating platforms.
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Led AI/ML Centre of Excellence serving 5M+ customers and delivering $50M+ annual revenue; founded Neuconomi (global IP marketplace managing $250M+ portfolios) and TheIPMarketplace.com (1900+ SKUs).
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Experienced in collaborating with high-performance teams, establishing AI governance frameworks, and driving enterprise adoption of Generative and Agentic AI.
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Actively engaged in Singapore’s AI ecosystem – attended AIMX Singapore 2025. Seeking Head of AI / Chief AI Officer roles in Singapore to lead strategic AI transformation.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - Present
Hyderabad, India
NEUCONOMI®
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Key Achievements:
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Working as CEO, of an award-winning, global Patents Licensing Marketplace for commercializing 18 digital technology patented categories.
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Managing Patent Portfolios of $2.50 Bn+ worth of Patent families in AI, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Digital Payments, IoT and Semiconductors for licensing rights in India, USA and UK jurisdictions.
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Played a critical role in getting, Start-up India Recognition, from Govt. of India, resulted in $1.18 Million tax exemptions and a host of government benefits from both central and Telangana state governments.
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Played a critical role in $ 2.8 Mn, angel tax exemption benefit, from the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.
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Managing Marketplace, 5 R&D Labs, Licensors, Licensees, Sales and global Licensing programs.
2018 - 2018
Hyderabad, India
Smart Auto Systems / MITSUI Corp
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Key Achievements:
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Part of the executive committee, experience in reporting to the Board of Directors on roadmaps, new products, budgets and global operations.
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Managed CMM Level 3, and Level 5 system integration engagements.
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Launched new AI products for the automotive sector resulting in $3 Mn in additional revenues
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Established R&D, Project Management, IT Strategy & Architecture, Data Engineering, and Information Security vertical and managed a team of 150+ Vice Presidents, Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams.
2012 - 2018
Hyderabad, India
ACT Corp
Sr. Manager
Key Achievements:
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Managing a portfolio of 60+ products & applications, and platforms, helping the organization to grow as Unicorn
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Spearheading Agile team of 9 Sr. Managers / Managers and 150+ IT specialists of DevSecOpsTest teams, with a team approval rating of 4.72 out of 5 (Evaluated by Gallup)
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Leveraged In-house engineering team, which resulted in a saving of $3 Mn - $5 Mn annually.
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Implemented DevSecOps with a high focus on information security resulting in cutting security to the organization by 9% and saving $1.5 Mn annually in bug bounty.
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Created new revenue lines through a SaaS, API Monetization to products developed in-house and licensed to external customers, resulting in $3 Mn+ per year (Business Customers include Co-Working, Co-Living, Indian Railways, Hospitality & etc...)
2012 - 2012
Hyderabad, India
Infosys
Technology Lead
Key Achievements:
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Led product strategy by collaborating with insurance customers, and launched innovative solutions to meet time-to-market demands for a TAM of $250 Mn for the Canadian Insurance market.
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Integrated digital payments on web and app interfaces.
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Originated business with over 6 new clients, increasing client base by 20%.
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Identified 20 new modules and prioritized them for development and releases resulting in a benchmarking product with the top 3 Life Insurance Competitors of Infosys.
2010 - 2012
Bangalore, India
Tata Sky
IT Architect
Key Achievements:
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Led the enterprise architecture, and IT strategy domains, ROI achievement for digital technology adoption resulting in 90% IT assets re-use and savings of over $3 Mn yearly.
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Launched the industry’s first dual remote recording setup top box product
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Established standardized IT models for deliverables using TOGAF, increasing the accuracy of implementation costs and reducing the cycle time by over 60% for solution delivery.
2008 - 2010
Chennai, India
IBM
Enterprise Architect, Team Lead
Key Achievements:
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Delivered enterprise-wide technology solutions by achieving all milestones of projects ranging up to $ 10 Mn, orchestrating a skilled cross-functional team of 12+ professionals.
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Digital transformation of World leading Telecom Company AT&T with best of data science projects using SAS & Pentaho
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As-Is, and To-Be Architecture definition for all the enterprise applications.
2006 - 2008
Chennai, Noida, India
Birlasoft
Software Engineer
Key Achievements:
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Involved in the design, development, and implementation of new modules for the Health Insurance product within timeline and quality.
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Manage the end-to-end operations and maintain 100% uptime of the product
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Provided support to customer escalations and issues.
2004 - 2006
Hyderabad, India
Impact Solutions
Software Engineer
Key Achievements:
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Involved in the design, development, and implementation of new modules for the Health Insurance product within timeline and quality.
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Manage the end-to-end operations and maintain 100% uptime of the product
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Provided support to customer escalations and issues.
2018 - Present
Hyderabad, India
ACT Corp
Head - AI/ML COE
Key Achievements:
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Led 120-person AI/ML COE; designed and deployed Generative and Agentic AI solutions across broadband, OTT, and VAS platforms serving 5M+ customers.
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Delivered $50M+ annual incremental revenue through in-house SaaS, API monetization, and IP licensing to enterprise clients (Indian Railways, co-working, hospitality).
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Achieved $5M annual cost savings via AI-driven automation and RPA; reduced security vulnerabilities by 9% ($1.5M saved in bug bounty).
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Established AI ethics and governance framework, ensuring responsible deployment aligned with global standards like Singapore’s AI Verify.
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Integrated 100+ digital payment modes; solution won national award for best integration from National Payments Council of India.
EDUCATION
2024 - 2025
Hyderabad, India
Indian School of Business (ISB)
Executive Program in Leadership with AI
2015 - 2017
Hyderabad, India
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Executive PGDBM - Technology Management & Entrepreneurship
2000 - 2004
Chennai, India
Hindustan University
B.Tech (Information Technology)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
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Artificial Intelligence
LLMs, SLMs, AI/ML/DL, Gen AI, RPA, Prompt Engineering
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Digital Technologies
Blockchain, IoT
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Payment Gateways
Paytm, Billdesk, PayU, Citrus, BNPL
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ERP / CRM
SAP, Salesforce, Siebel CRM, Sugar CRM, Zoho, Freshdesk
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Mobile Apps
React Native, Android, iOS, PWA
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Web Technologies
Python, MEAN, Java, JEE, .NET, PHP, Liferay Portals
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DevSecOps / CI/CD
Microservices, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
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Cyber Security
OWASP, BurpSuite and SonarQube
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Databases
Milvus, Qdrant, Mongo DB, Oracle, MySQL
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Cloud Computing
Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP
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No Code, Low Code
Mendix, Google App Sheet, Microsoft Power Apps
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Architectural Frameworks
TOGAF, Zachman Framework, SOA
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Big Data
Hadoop, EAI/API, Mule ESB, WebSphere
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Prototyping / UI/UX Designing
Figma, Canva, UML, OOAD, Design Patterns
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Application / Web Servers
Apache, WebSphere, Jboss & Tomcat
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Research & Development
Patents, Licensing, Technology Transfer, Royalties
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
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Certified in – Agentic AI
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Certified in – Building LLM Applications with Prompt Engg.
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Certified in – Generative AI
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Certified in – AI / Machine Learning (AI/ ML)
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Certified in – Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technology
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Certified in – AI Agents
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Certified in – Enterprise Designing Thinking
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Certified in – Model Context Protocol
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Certified in – Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Certified in – Prompt Engineering
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Certified in – Agent Observability & Evaluations
(Servicenow)
(NVIDIA)
(Databricks)
(Stanford University)
(IBM)
(HuggingFace)
(IBM)
(ANTHROPIC)
(Google)
(Project Management Institute)
(LangChain)
SPONSORSHIPS WON
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Won 1-year sponsorship to Business Network International (BNI) network, from T-HUB, World’s Largest Startup Accelerator.
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Won 100% education sponsorship, for studying Executive PGDBM / MBA while working at ACT Corp. Only 10 employees have won in the last 8 years since its launch, out of 7,800 workforces, for consistent extraordinary performance.
SELECTED PATENTS
Patents: Overall, 12 Patents filed in the following digital technologies
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Artificial Intelligence
9 Patents (Grant Received – 1, Waiting for the Grant – 8)
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Blockchain Technology
1 Patent (Grant Received – 1)
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Satellite / Edge IoT
1 Patent (Waiting for the Grant – 1)
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Electronic Devices
1 Patent (Waiting for the Grant – 1)
These have potential digital products in AutoTech, Digital Payments, FinTech, HealthTech and Smart Cities sectors.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP & RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
My contributions to the industry and scientific community are published in the following International and nationally reputed Journals
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Stanford University Magazine
URL 1 : https://searchworks.stanford.edu/articles?search_field=search&q=bharath+bejjarapu
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
URL 2 : https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf
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Official Journal of the India Patent Office
INDUSTRY AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
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Awarded Grants from ZOHO Corporation
(2024)
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Startup India Recognition (Government of India)
(2024)
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Stanford (Top 20 Finalist South Asia Cohort)
(2023)
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Stanford Seed Spark (Nominated)
(2023)
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Startup delegation from Telangana to G20
(2023)
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IDFC Bank LEAP TO UNICORN (Top 500 from 6,000 Startups)
(2023)
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DELL (Top 75 Marketplaces)
(2023)
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Most Promising Startup of the year
(2023)
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FORTUNE Magazine (Most Impactful Leaders)
(2022)
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T-HUB accelerator program selection & graduation (Cohort 9)
(2022)
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Startup India Recognition (Government of India)
(2020)
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National Award (Innovative Chatbot leveraging AI / ML)
(2018)
MEDIA APPERANCES & PRESS COVERAGES
Featured in more than 250+ international and national media for my thought leadership contributions to Industry, Inventions, Entrepreneurship, Startup activities and Angel Investment activities.
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https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordseed/cgi-bin/seedspark/spark-07-june-nov-2023/
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thubhyd_t-hub-lab32-cohort-9-ugcPost-6973918110802214913-K8bc
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Featured in popular FORTUNE Magazine for impact leadership for contributions to the startup ecosystem as an angel investor (December 2022 Print Edition)