Investor Connect - 545 - Ganesh Padmanabhan of BeyondMinds

In this episode, Hall welcomes Ganesh Padmanabhan, VP, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at BeyondMinds, technologist, entrepreneur, and early-stage investor.

Founded in 2018, BeyondMinds has built the first enterprise AI solution that is universally applicable and easily adaptable. They deliver hyper-customized, production-ready AI systems that enable sophisticated companies to overcome the massive failure rate in AI adoption and rapidly implement ROI-positive transformations. The company has more than 70 employees, with the majority being AI technologists. Accelerating AI democratization around the world, they have offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, and London, in addition to presence in other countries, and they service Global 1000 companies, including Microsoft and Samsung.

Ganesh is an accomplished technology and business executive with deep expertise in commercializing and building AI and Big Data businesses for Fortune 500 organizations and high-growth startups. Prior to that, Ganesh was the Co-Founder and CRO at Molecula Corp, a data management company that helps enterprises unlock access to their data. Prior to that, he was head of growth at CognitiveScale, Inc., an enterprise AI company, that helps Global 2000 organizations deploy and scale practical, scalable, and trusted AI systems. Ganesh spent 15 years in global companies like Dell Technologies, Intel, and Adaptec, in general management, product, and technical leadership positions. 

Ganesh is passionate about using technology to solve the biggest challenges for humankind and is a believer in the power of AI to augment human potential. He is an advocate for using technology as a global equalizer to create opportunities for all. He has been active in the community by mentoring local entrepreneurs and startups at Capital Factory, Texas. He recently served on the Texas Governor Abbott’s COVID-19 task force on Innovation, helping them unlock data to better decisions on the response and recovery in the State. Ganesh teaches a course on ‘Product Management and Strategy in Technology-Driven Markets’ every Spring semester at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas Austin.

A frequent keynote speaker, he is published at Forbes, Business Insider, and other publications and was honored by the Enterprise Management 360 as one of the top 10 tech experts revolutionizing AI. Ganesh holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calicut, India, and an MBA from UT Austin. 

Ganesh shares what led him to start working in the AI space and advises investors and entrepreneurs. As a huge technology optimist, he discusses how he sees the industry evolving post-COVID-19, 

You can visit BeyondMinds at www.beyondminds.ai, and via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/beyondminds/.  

Ganesh can be contacted via email at [e-mail], via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/padmanabhan, and via Twitter at www.twitter.com/_ganeshp.  

Music courtesy of Bensound.