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Pavan Akella

Product Partnerships | Enterprise AI Platforms | Platform Strategy | AI Commercialization

Hyderabad

10+ years of work experience

Oct 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Building EDI Labs, an open-source decision-governance prototype for enterprise AI. It includes an evaluation framework that benchmarks foundation-model APIs, and a working interface for recording decisions, assumptions and feedback. I’m extending the evaluation to compare additional models against an existing baseline. The aim is to understand how enterprises can test and govern AI-driven decisions.
Infosys
May 201610 yrs 6 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked at the intersection of enterprise technology, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market execution, helping technology providers and enterprise customers translate platform capabilities into commercial outcomes across India, APAC, and EMEA. Highlights • Developed strategic partnerships across enterprise software, cloud, AI, and technology ecosystems to expand market reach and strengthen long-term business growth. • Shaped joint go-to-market strategies by aligning partner capabilities, customer priorities, and cross-functional execution to accelerate enterprise technology adoption. • Collaborated with executive stakeholders on partnership strategy, business planning, governance, and commercial execution across complex enterprise engagements. • Connected sales, consulting, product, engineering, delivery, marketing, and partner organizations to execute customer initiatives and improve business outcomes. • Supported opportunity planning, pipeline governance, forecasting, executive reviews, and commercial planning to improve execution discipline and decision-making. • Led partner enablement and joint business planning initiatives that strengthened ecosystem capability, collaboration, and go-to-market effectiveness.

Pavan’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
claude code
claude code
claude
claude
codex
codex
gemini
gemini
openai
openai

Education

BITSoM - BITS School of Management

Business Analytics & Agentic AI

BITSoM - BITS School of Management

20251 yr2026
Indian School of Business

Emerging Leaders Programme, Business Strategy & Leadership

Indian School of Business

20232023

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Headline

Product Partnerships | Enterprise AI Platforms | Platform Strategy | AI Commercialization

About

Enterprise technology creates value only when products, partnerships, and execution move together. Over the past decade, I've worked at the intersection of enterprise technology, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market execution, helping technology providers and enterprise customers translate platform capabilities into measurable business outcomes across cloud, AI, and enterprise software. Working within a leading Global System Integrator, I've collaborated with technology partners, enterprise customers, and cross-functional teams to develop joint go-to-market initiatives, shape solution positioning, and support complex customer engagements. My work has consistently involved aligning product, sales, engineering, delivery, and executive stakeholders to accelerate adoption and commercial outcomes. Alongside my enterprise experience, I continue to explore how AI is changing the way organizations build products and make decisions. Through EDI Labs and product development at BookUrEvent, I'm designing AI-native systems that structure operational knowledge, improve decision quality, and simplify enterprise workflows. This work keeps me closely engaged with modern AI platforms, agentic systems, enterprise knowledge architectures, and product commercialization. I'm particularly interested in enterprise AI platforms, strategic partnerships, ecosystem development, cloud technologies, and the operating models that turn innovation into durable business capability.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

openai

Work experience

Independent Exploration | Enterprise Decision Infrastructure at EDI Labs, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Building EDI Labs, an open-source decision-governance prototype for enterprise AI. It includes an evaluation framework that benchmarks foundation-model APIs, and a working interface for recording decisions, assumptions and feedback. I’m extending the evaluation to compare additional models against an existing baseline. The aim is to understand how enterprises can test and govern AI-driven decisions.

Team Lead – Strategic Partnerships & Technology Alliances at Infosys, May 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Worked at the intersection of enterprise technology, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market execution, helping technology providers and enterprise customers translate platform capabilities into commercial outcomes across India, APAC, and EMEA. Highlights • Developed strategic partnerships across enterprise software, cloud, AI, and technology ecosystems to expand market reach and strengthen long-term business growth. • Shaped joint go-to-market strategies by aligning partner capabilities, customer priorities, and cross-functional execution to accelerate enterprise technology adoption. • Collaborated with executive stakeholders on partnership strategy, business planning, governance, and commercial execution across complex enterprise engagements. • Connected sales, consulting, product, engineering, delivery, marketing, and partner organizations to execute customer initiatives and improve business outcomes. • Supported opportunity planning, pipeline governance, forecasting, executive reviews, and commercial planning to improve execution discipline and decision-making. • Led partner enablement and joint business planning initiatives that strengthened ecosystem capability, collaboration, and go-to-market effectiveness.

Education

Business Analytics & Agentic AI, BITSoM - BITS School of Management

Emerging Leaders Programme, Business Strategy & Leadership, Indian School of Business