Paritosh Desai Email Address

Senior Director

Target Brands Inc. is a brand and retailer owned by Target Corporation. It owns and operates discount retail stores in United States and Canada.

Creator of new business value by identifying and solving hard and important problems -- usually by building (financially viable) Products based upon new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques coupled with large-scale distributed computing technologies. Interested in having a positive impact on society through board involvement. This includes providing Product vision, building Data Science & Engineering capabilities and organizations, and effective management & delivery. I have overseen development of multiple data-science products that spans various domains -- Retail, Supply Chain, Marketing, Information Security, iOT, Talent/HR, and encompassing multiple Data Science approaches including Statistical and Machine Learning, AI and Deep Learning, Stochastic Optimization and Control, and more! These products employ advanced techniques such as Tensor and Matrix Factorization, Complex Neural Network Architectures, Bayesian learning methods etc. These are engineered for web-scale and extensively use open source components, cloud-enabled, container-aware, and DevOps compliant. Created and scaled multiple data science and analytics organizations (multi-geography) -- scores of agile/product teams and hundreds of team members. Experience interfacing with Fortune-100 C-suite to create and realize Data and Analytics agenda at Enterprise scale -- delivering capabilities, Products/Solutions, and on budget!