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Shivaji in a few words
Shivaji Dasgupta helps organizations unlock business value through technology, cloud, data, and AI-driven transformations. With over 15 years of leadership experience spanning management consulting at McKinsey & Co., senior executive roles in financial institutions like Deutsche Bank and UniCredit, and private equity-backed companies, he specializes in turning strategy into measurable business impact. Shivaji has a proven track record of bridging business and technology to deliver scalable solutions that drive growth, efficiency, and resilience.
Throughout his career, Shivaji has led cloud and data transformations impacting over 100 million customer records, successfully migrating enterprise platforms to Azure and GCP. He has driven SAP S/4HANA transformations across finance, planning, and risk, achieving 40% improvements in data quality and reporting speed. His delivery of AI and GenAI solutions for financial reporting, customer insights, and forecasting has reduced manual efforts by up to 50%, while his operational leadership has generated €25 million in annual cost savings through automation, cloud optimization, and platform consolidation. Shivaji has also supported private equity firms and mid-cap companies in scaling data and AI capabilities post-acquisition, enabling faster value creation and operational readiness.
Shivaji’s expertise covers data and AI strategy, cloud and platform architecture, enterprise applications such as SAP and Finance IT, and value creation initiatives with a focus on revenue growth and cost efficiency. He works closely with executive teams to align technology transformation with business goals, ensuring organizations move beyond strategic intent to real-world execution. Shivaji is passionate about helping businesses turn their data, cloud, and AI investments into lasting competitive advantage.
Experience
- Tad. VentureFounder & Managing AdvisorNovember 2024 - Today (8 months)Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, ItalyAdvisory for short cycle RoI and P&L impact using tailored data and AI-driven solutions for mid-caps, large-caps and private equity portfolio companies, leveraging on EMEA and US venture ecosystems. Case studies with large- and mid-tier PE firms, family offices, and their portfolio assets. Delivered solutions for data access & aggregation for finance processes (25% efficiency), GenAI agents for deal repository, and AI automation for billing, invoicing, inventory mgmt. using off-the-shelf SaaS tools (upto 35% increased RoI within 7 months) Support on data, digital due-diligence; also, deliver interim management for digital, tech and data topics. Partnering to deliver end to end integration and solutions with experts on digital process redesign, AI and GenAI solutions, delivery and operational consulting firms. Partner to VC ecosystems in EU, Israel and US - due-diligence for market-fit and product-fit. Supporting SaaS solutions from start-ups to scale with PEs. Advisor for Safebooks.AI, Multimodal.
- Fortius PartnersPartnerApril 2025 - Today (3 months)Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy• Freelance network; Lead for technology, data, and AI initiatives for readiness assessment, due diligence, and value creation.• Identify key levers for value creation and provided training on scaling technology topics.
- UniCreditGroup Chief Data Officer and Chief Information Officer - Control Functions (EVP)January 2023 - October 2024 (1 year and 9 months)Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, ItalyResponsible for group-wide data functions - architecture, governance, platform and analytics. Additionally, lead CIO responsibility for Group Functions - Finance, Risk, Compliance, HR and ESG. Public-cloud based Data Mesh implementation, with regulatory and commercial use cases on data Rationalization and simplification of architecture for global to local synergies for risk, finance and compliance, as well as broader accessibility of quality data according to right principles Data governance with the right technology tools for end to end data management and discovery ESG technology definition, implementation and integration
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Education
- Doctorate in PhysicsTechnical University of Munich2008Quantum Computation, experimental physics
- Master of ScienceIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi2003Master of Science, Physics
- Bachelor of Science in PhysicsUniversity of Delhi, India2001Bachelor of Science (with Honors), Physics
Certifications
- Google Cloud CertificationGoogle2024
- Artificial IntelligenceMIT2018