Team and Advisors

The people building this, and the people making sure we build it right.

Meet the founding team and advisory board behind Agility AI — spanning AI engineering, rural management, public policy, law and entrepreneurship.

Founding team

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Sharad Raj Utsav
Director and CEO
B.Tech, NSUT Delhi; MBA (Rural Management), IRMA Anand; advanced studies in Data Science and AI, BITS Pilani. Selected for the Stanford Seed programme at Stanford Graduate School of Business, one of 100 ventures chosen across South Asia. Leads vision, strategy, and institutional partnerships.
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Shreya Sinha
Director and COO
B.Tech, NSUT Delhi; PGP in Digital Marketing and Strategic Marketing, MICA Ahmedabad. Nearly six years leading digital marketing and analytics at Piramal Pharma Solutions, and two years with the Piramal Foundation across rural government schools in Rajasthan. Leads operations, programme design, and stakeholder experience.
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Aryan Shukla
Co-Founder and CTO
Integrated B.Tech and M.Tech in Mathematics and Computing, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Nearly three years as a Machine Learning Engineer at Samsung Research Institute, Delhi. Owns the technology stack, AI systems, and automation pipelines.

Advisory board

The people who make sure we're not just moving fast, but moving right.

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Sri R. Ramaseshan
Former IAS officer; former MD and CEO, NCDEX; former Chairman, National Commodity Clearing Ltd. Brings national level policy and governance experience to any engagement operating inside regulatory or institutional constraints.
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Prof. Nakul Parameswar
Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, IIT Hyderabad. Research grounding in how organisations actually adopt new systems, not just deploy them.
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Prof. Sumit Kumar Yadav
Assistant Professor, IIT Roorkee; PhD, IIM Ahmedabad. Adds further academic rigor on the institutional and strategy side of our advisory work.
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Prof. Aashish Argade
Assistant Professor, IRMA Anand; PhD, IIM Ahmedabad. Expertise in rural and institutional systems broadly, relevant to any large, decentralised organisation, not one sector alone.
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Prof. Ashok R. Patil
Vice Chancellor, NUSRL Ranchi; former Professor, NLSIU Bengaluru. Legal and policy expertise relevant to governance and compliance conversations.