Rajeev Sharma

Rajeev Sharma is the President and CEO of nova IQ- A Deep Learning Company. He is responsible for ensuring operational excellence across the organization and leading the technology roadmap of the company. Rajeev also spearheads the partnership strategy and talent pool development in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Enterprise Architecture, and Digital Transformation using AI.

Rajeev has more than 25 years of leadership and management experience, in addition to a strong engineering background in Deep Learning Algorithms & Mathematical Modeling, Product Design & Development, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, Quantitative Analysis, and Engineering Process Design. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he served as the senior rocket scientist and deputy project director of Agni III missile program of Defense R&D Organization in India.

Prior to joining nova IQ, Rajeev served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Ness Digital Engineering, a renowned global digital product engineering company. In this role, he played a vanguard role in creating a scalable, delivery framework integrating Experience Engineering, Big Data & Analytics, and Product Engineering. During his more than 4 years at Ness, he led solutions and sales enablement teams globally and led architecture programs for large complex client initiatives across multiple industries like Financial Services, Media, Retail, Healthcare & Life-Sciences, Education and Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s).

From 2008 to 2013 Rajeev led the GE Infrastructure’s business in Polaris Software Limited as the VP- Engagement Management and Account Director. Shortly after this stint, he wore an entrepreneur’s hat as the President and Founder of Dynalead – A leadership and technology consulting firm helping small and medium size (SMB’s) businesses build their leadership and engineering strategy. In the recent past, Rajeev also served as the President & CEO of the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce in New Jersey and the Board of YMCA in Edison, New Jersey. He is a published author and his book titled ‘Intuitively Rational’ was published in 2014.

Rajeev has a Graduate degree in Management & Systems Design from MIT Sloan School of Management & the School of Engineering Systems and as part of the program has also studied Public Policy and General Management at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School. He also has a Master’s Degree in Space Engineering & Rocketry and an Undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from India.