AIM 100: India's Most Influential People Shaping AI in 2026

Mahesh Kumar

Founder and CEO, Tiger Analytics

Mahesh Kumar

Over the past year, Mahesh Kumar has continued to steer Tiger Analytics’ evolution from a data science consulting firm into an AI-native enterprise transformation company. Guided by him, the company has expanded its work around generative AI, helping global enterprises deploy AI across customer experience, supply chains, marketing and operations while investing heavily in AI talent and proprietary accelerators. 


Kumar has also spoken extensively about how enterprises are moving from isolated AI pilots to organisation-wide transformation. He believes the biggest challenge in enterprise AI is no longer access to models but the ability to integrate AI into business workflows at scale. 


He has consistently argued that competitive advantage will come from combining domain expertise, high-quality data and AI rather than relying solely on foundation models, making execution more important than experimentation.

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