Amplify Human Potential with AI-Powered Data & Knowledge

Ajay Khanna, CEO & Founder of Tellius, a company disrupting business analytics with Search and AI, is a tech entrepreneur who has a passion for building disruptive enterprise products with an awesome user experience. Prior to starting Tellius, Ajay was CTO & Founding member of Celcite, a fast growing telecom analytics and solutions company, that was acquired by Amdocs. Ajay has over 25 years of extensive experience working in various technical, business. and consulting roles. He holds degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Abhi Panigrahi serves as Chief of Staff and Head of Business Operations & Strategy at Tellius. He is responsible for planning, analytics, partnerships, and company wide operations. Before joining Tellius, he served on the leadership team at Guidewheel, an analytics company reducing manufacturing emissions. Previously, he worked in consulting helping solve mission critical problems for financial institutions, government agencies, and other enterprises.

With over a decade of experience in analytics, Ben joins Tellius as the Vice President of Sales. Prior to Tellius, he led teams and at Zip, Celonis, and Qlik. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time outside, as well as gardening, carpentry, welding and cooking. Ben resides in Fort Worth, TX, with his wife and two dogs.

Amanda spearheads Tellius’ revenue generation strategy, driving growth through a unified approach to Demand Marketing, Brand Building, and strategic Business Development. A data-driven marketing leader with over 17 years of experience, she has a proven track record of success in building and leading high-performing marketing teams. Prior to joining Tellius, Amanda led Demand Generation and Global ABX initiatives at Pyramid Analytics and Reltio, bringing an award-winning GTM strategy to market. Her career trajectory began at Informatica, where she honed her skills in various marketing functions, laying the foundation for her subsequent roles. Amanda resides with her husband and two children in Florida.

With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of data, AI, and product leadership, Vinod Iyengar brings a unique blend of expertise in product management, product positioning, go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and data science. Prior to joining Tellius, Vinod held key leadership roles at H2O.ai and ThirdAI, where he drove the development and growth of cutting-edge AI platforms, helping organizations unlock the power of data.

As Director of Product Marketing, Chris leads the go to market efforts to drive awareness and adoption of Tellius’s products and services, including positioning, strategy and execution of key launches and initiatives that push the Tellius brand and business forward. He was previously a Senior Product Marketer at Dataiku and spent several years before that at Gartner owning GTM/end-to-end product marketing efforts. He holds his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in New York City with his wife and kids.

Nick Pinero is VP, Technical Solutions at Tellius, where he guides customers through the technical evaluation, implementation, and deployment process, and helps customers maximize the value of their data with search and AI-powered analytics. Prior to joining Tellius, he was a Lead Data Scientist at IBM. Over the course of his career, he has developed an extensive track record of designing and implementing analytics solutions leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms across various industries, such as retail, healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications.

Madhukara has over 9 years of extensive experience in building AI, big data, and distributed systems using Hadoop, Apache Spark, Scala and ML/AI technologies. Madhukara is the organizer of the Bangalore Apache Spark Meetup group. He has worked on building scalable big data analytics platforms in different industries such as finance, health care, and telecom. Madhukara holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering.

Sameer is the Head of Engineering at Tellius, where he serves the engineering teams in developing the technical vision, strategy, and execution of Tellius Data and Insights Platform. In his current role he is guiding, supporting, and developing team members, and fostering collaboration with customers by making them successful in maximizing value of their data. Prior to joining Tellius, Sameer led many teams in enabling data products within many companies like Apple, Twilio, Kohls, Yahoo, and Paypal. He has over a decade of experience on working distributed data systems, building and developing large scale applications. Other achievements include publishing research papers, patents and speaking in Conferences on topics of data, privacy and security.