SK · CAPCO
Before we start · 60 seconds on me
For Kaajal Parekh & Khurram Akhtar · July 2026

25 years in tech — 18+ in applied AI.

Client-side, contractor, consultancy and platform-vendor — I have shipped from every seat in the room.

What I’ve done
Axioms Consulting — AI Tech & Strategy Lead (current)
  • · TOM design for a £5m AI Foundry at a UK FS (NDA).
  • · GTM for Gen AI / Predictive ML into Tier-1 banks — £3m+ qualified pipeline.
Kindred Group — Head of Customer Decisioning (client-side)
  • · 9 brands · 17 regulated markets · 7 direct (~25 incl. partners).
  • · £6m incremental Y1 · ~25% cost-out on renewals.
Before that
Consultancy · Merkle, Cognizant, Teradata — Lloyds (BigQuery pipeline), RBS, Vodafone, Sky, BT/EE, Orange, Verizon, Very Group, BNP, HSBC, Aldermore.
Contractor · BT, British Gas — NBA pricing, personalisation at 3m-customer scale.
Alongside SI’s · Tech Mahindra (BT), Infosys (Telenet), Cognizant (Vodafone Group).
How I’m trained
Master of Artificial Intelligence

Rome Business School (2026). Capstone: interpretable pricing AI, 2,000+ vehicles revalued.

Master of Business Administration

Augment Business School (2024). Translates between marketing, IT and the exec.

In market

Speaker — Digital Leadership Forum, vendor AI councils and FS data roundtables. Personal builds: iDARIA, Vocal Sync AI, Fairness Compass.

Tool-agnostic by design — the outcome, not the badge on the platform.

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