
Anupam Kundu
AI Strategy Consultant & Digital Advisor
Salary / Daily rate
Perpignan, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
AI Strategy & Digital Advisory expert with 25+ years transforming ambiguous ideas into game-changing solutions. Led $40M+ portfolios at EPAM/Google, founded multiple startups, and delivered products for UNICEF, Fortune 500 clients. Ready to accelerate your digital transformation with proven AI, product strategy, and growth expertise.
Work experience
Founder | 2025 French Impact Startup (Social Inclusion) | Supported by BIC Plein Sud & eWorks
KiidoFreelance
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
25040 Europa, Province of Brescia, Italy
Travailler à convertir des idées ambiguës en un produit ou une solution qui change la donne. Working to convert ambiguous ideas into a game-changing product / solution. Selected by BIC Plein Sud Entreprises, a leading French incubator, for strategic guidance and operational support during Kiido’s launch phase. Participated in the eWorks Accelerator by ESADE University, focusing on scaling Kiido’s reach, refining business strategies, and preparing for investor engagement.
Founder / Operator
Calculai
May 2018 - Present
8 years 6 months
Indianapolis, IN, USA
We are currently building innovative products and solutions with a focus on AI, IoT, and mobile technologies, aimed at driving growth and impact. Our clients are in France, Canada, USA, Philippines, India and other countries. Additionally, providing technology-diligence service advisory to multiple VC/PE firms, start-up ventures, global multi-lateral organizations (like UN) at the intersection of innovation, AI, and data strategy. Case studies : https://www.calcul.ai/case-studies My role involves listening, translating, connecting, learning, experimenting, uniting, and growing.
Guest Lecturer / Visiting Professor (AI, UX, Product Management, Digital Transformation)
Various Institutions – Parsons School of Design, IMERIR, Barcelona Technology School
Feb 2015 - Present
11 years 9 months
Global / Remote / Multiple Locations
Delivered guest lectures and masterclasses on topics including AI trends, ethical design, product management, and digital transformation. - Parsons School of Design (NYC) – Agile & Design Futures - IMERIR (France) – Applied AI - Barcelona Technology School – AI Ethics & UX Masterclass Focused on engaging students with practical, real-world cases and participatory learning.
Head of Products (Computer Vision)
RealValue
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
1 year 7 months
69340 Francheville, France
• Orchestrated a global team of 7 to build a visual intelligence platform for ops and marketing teams. • Secured 4 enterprise customers within the first 12 months. Created and managed a roadmap with inputs from customers and global trends. • Won public funding and hackathons to scale product initiatives and build partnerships. Our Trust & Safety solution, SafeAccess, won the business continuity challenge in #EuVsVirus hackathon among over 2100 teams.
Angel Investor
AngelList
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
5 years
Multiple investments via Angel list. Currently in hiatus after 1 exit and 1 closure.
Global Client Relationships Strategy and Growth (Google, Ooyala, Ericsson)
EPAM Systems
Sep 2016 - May 2018
1 year 9 months
San Francisco Bay Area , NYC
Co-conspirator to draft the vision of becoming the most sought-after tech consulting firm in the Bay area. -Steered a business critical portfolio of $40mm for product technology consulting, marketing, and strategic technology partnerships in EPAM Systems. Global team footprint in 8 countries, 240+ people, and growing. Core clients include Google, Ericsson, Ooyala, and their customers. -Improved portfolio NPS through successful CSAT and ESAT initiatives and enabled EPAM to become preferred vendor partners at Google and Ooyala. -Steered several initiatives around product dev, product marketing, and sales enablement, recruiting pipeline and events strategy in collaboration with HR, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Staffing Staffing VPs and Directors. -Created and nurtured a strategic partnership with Google Cloud Platform / Apigee for new revenue growth. -Played engagement lead for different Google senior directors and VPs (Youtube, Corp Eng, REWS, Fiber, Apigee) to craft and hone a vendor management framework and location strategy for managed services to sustain revenue north of $30mm. -Lead relationship management with C suite at Ooyala (owned by Telstra), participating in corporate restructuring and product engineering delivery outsourcing for faster time to market of new ideas. -Lead product strategy engagement with Google REWS (Events Management) and Ericsson Media Products (for next-generation set top boxes)
Co-Founder and Dog Parent
www.barkloudly.com
Sep 2012 - Aug 2017
5 years
New York, NY, USA
We believe in improving the quality of life for both dogs and humans by helping them find love and continuity through compassion and humane education.
ThoughtWorks
Mar 2008 - Aug 2016
8 years 6 months
New York, NY, USA
Global Strategic Advisor (Financial Services)
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
9 months
New York, NY, USA
- Relationship management and governance of managed engagements for building transformative products-platforms-change strategy with global top 5 banking and finance companies including Fidelity, Vanguard, JP Morgan Asset Management, Credit Suisse. - Defined and set go-to-market strategy for business development and subsequent sales, tools build-out and subject matter expertise for insights driven new revenue growth - Responsible for biz dev, strategic sales, and global accounts management
Global Client Partner, Office of Social Change Initiatives
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 2 months
-Responsible for scaling a global portfolio of work with UNICEF including driving the global data management strategy across 25 countries and $50mm investments collaborating with senior most stakeholders in UNICEF. -Defined and implemented digital products / solutions for socially impactful organizations namely UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, Mercy Corps, Democracy Now, Wikileaks, United We Dream, Cool Culture, and more http://unicefstories.org/2014/05/20/rapidftr-2/ https://data.unicef.org/ http://mics.unicef.org/ http://www.democracynow.org https://www.sankofa.org http://www.allianceforfairfood.org/ www.unitedwedream.org https://berthafoundation.org/ www.wikileaks.org
Principal Consultant
May 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 8 months
-Key member of North East (NE) Leadership Team responsible for operational excellence (~25mm portfolio), new business growth, and driving University partnership for organic growth and buildout of Design Thinking Practice across different clients. -Co-founded Digital Prototype Opportunity through collaborative alliances with venture funds and design university.Expanded the social impact opportunities leads pipeline by 400% in the local market within 4 months. -Founded Raptor, a creative, collaborative, and intense product accelerator service offering for ThoughtWorks, ground-up, leading to growth in net new revenue of $8mm, 20+ people within 16 months. Successfully enabled launch of 8 new products and services for organizations including high end retailers, physical marketplaces and travel sites across the globe. Steered strategic scaling of innovation-as-a-service across the company. https://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/natural-markets-food-group
Lead Agile Consultant
Mar 2008 - May 2012
4 years 3 months
New York, NY, USA
-Product-Portfolio Management for media clients, Change-Transformation for Finance clients, Driving accounts marketing strategy, Agile Product Management -Leadership (player/coach/governance) in creation of agile center of excellence for the largest bank in the world that was adopted by several different line of businesses within the bank including asset management, treasury, risks and others in USA, UK, India and Australia. - http://www.simonandschuster.com/ - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pimsleur-course-manager/id609415209?mt=8 - Bloomberg Aptitude Test - Cox Media - Pershing - Chubb Insurance
Sr. Project Manager
Bridgeline Software
Jun 2007 - Mar 2008
10 months
New York, NY, USA
Responsible for management of multiple strategic projects for several clients particularly in the Finance domain (DTCC, NFP)worth $5mm of revenue.
Software PM (contract project via Pursuit Software)
Merrill Lynch
Nov 2006 - Jul 2007
9 months
New York, NY, USA
Engaged as a Technical Project Manager for a web re-engineering project with Merrill Lynch at NYC.
Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Program
2017 - 2017
1 year
Stanford University
Executive Program
2012 - 2012
1 year
Rutgers University
Certificate
University of Calcutta
BS
Indira Gandhi National Open University
MBA
National Institute of Information Technology
GNIIT (equivalent Post Grad Diploma)
Villanova University
Certificate
Portfolio
