Mahesh Kumar

Mahesh Kumar is the visionary founder and CEO of Tiger Analytics, a global leader in AI and advanced analytics consulting. Since founding the company in 2011, Kumar has been the driving force behind Tiger Analytics’ remarkable growth, transforming it from a startup into a trusted partner for Fortune 1000 companies across multiple industries worldwide.

With deep expertise in management science and a passion for leveraging AI to solve complex business challenges, Kumar has built Tiger Analytics into a premier analytics firm known for innovation, customer-centricity, and AI excellence. His strategic business acumen and leadership have been instrumental in expanding Tiger’s footprint across the US, Canada, India, Singapore, the UK, and Australia—delivering exponential revenue growth and establishing long-term client partnerships.

Before founding Tiger Analytics, Kumar was a faculty member at the Smith School of Business and Rutgers Business School, where his research in data mining and statistical modelling provided actionable insights on critical business problems, including forecasting, pricing, promotions, and customer segmentation. This academic foundation continues to influence Tiger’s data-driven approach to solving real-world challenges.

He holds a PhD in operations research and marketing from MIT and a BTech in computer science from IIT Bombay.