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Rajeev Vaid:








        He Has Held Senior Executive Positions In Corporate Development
        And Was IBM’s VP For M&A In Asia Pacific


                                             Rajeev has held senior               Our team is made up of Strategy,
                                             executive positions in Corporate     M&A and growth professionals
                                             Development and was IBM’s VP         responsible for billions of dollars
                                             for M&A in Asia Pacific where        in M&A deals across the globe. In
                                             he was responsible for analytics     doing these deals, we ran into the
                                             acquisitions. Rajeev has an MBA      same challenges you are having
                                             from Aston University, UK and is a  today.
                                             Graduate in Electrical Engineering   Clients Testimonials
                                             from IIT Roorkee, India.             *Kognetics really helped
                                             Bringing AI to M&A and               us transform our business
                                             Investments                          development and idea generation.
                                             Kognetics is easing the life of      A typical campaign at our bank
                                             bankers working around the clock     which use to take us 6 months, can
                                             on mergers & acquisitions. This      now be designed and executed in
                ognetics is an Artificial    helps bankers remove their daily     a week- Mid-Market Technology
                Intelligence based           repetitive and other grunt work,     Investment Bank/Managing
        Kapplications that transforms  so that they can focus on a higher         Director
        financial research andanalysis.      order of thinking about industry     * Kognetics helps us complete
        The application provides data        trends and understanding the         what originally took 12 months to
        on public companies and their        clients better.                      work in less than a month - Asia
        exceptions reporting withmachine-    What Do We Do?                       Pacific Commercial Bank/Senior
        enabled capability to do financial   We are helping organizations         Vice President
        normalization and comparable         answer complex questions using       * Thank you for the great work you
        company comparisonand create         machine intelligence to extract      and your team have completed for
        PowerPoint charts. Currently         insights from both structured        us on our sell-side idea generation.
        the application has US public        and unstructured data. We are        Your team has been helpful through
        company data and will soonhave       transforming manual, time            the whole process - Boutique M&A
        a global coverage of public          consuming, knowledge-based           Advisory/Managing Director
        and private companies. The           processes to deliver deeper insights
        application is relevant for multiple   more rapidly and in real-time.
        usecases- Financial Reporting,                                            Website: http://www.kognetics.
        M&A Analysis, Equity Research,       Our organization consists of         com/
        Investment Management, Training      experts in data sciences, artificial   Industry: Financial Services
        andAcademia.                         intelligence disciplines and strategy   Company size: 11-50 employees
        Our Vision: Our goal is to improve   consulting. Together, we are         Headquarters: Albany, NY
                                             creating innovative solutions to
        the way businesses use information   challenging information problems.    Type: Privately Held
        to make decisions at Kognetics
        The Dynamic Co-Founder               We Have Walked In Your Shoes         Founded: 2015


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