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Enterprise AI Strategy & Implementation
Production-grade RAG and predictive analytics tied to industrial P&L. From C-suite cockpits to operator dashboards — engineered for accountability, not demos.
AI · Industrial Ops
Available for Select Advisory Mandates
Vik Guttikonda — Strategy × Enterprise AI
Vishnu Kireet Guttikonda
Founder · Building on Innovative Ideas
Advisory for boards that have to defend the number. Founder building new ventures across heavy industry, cross-border trade, and enterprise AI.
- Portfolio Directed
- $300M+
- Industrial Uptime
- 99.5%
- Latency Reduction
- 70%
- Global Alumni
- Top 2%
Recognised · Referenced · Affiliated
Yale School of Management
MAM '26
Indian School of Business
Dean's List · PGP
AMBA
Accredited Member
Bloomberg
Mentioned · 2025
Mint
Op-ed · 2024
Knowledge VerticalsThree disciplines.
Three disciplines.
One operating thesis.
Strategy compounds when industrial reality, capital architecture, and applied intelligence run as one system — not three vendors reconciled in a deck.
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Global Supply Chain & Cross-Border Trade
Founding partner of a US import/export venture operating trade lanes between North America, India, and the Indo-Pacific.
Trade · Logistics/ 03
Elite MBA Mentorship
Profile architecture and narrative design for top-tier 1-year MBA candidates. Frameworks proven at Yale, Wharton, and INSEAD.
MBA · Mentorship
Insights · Case Studies
Strategy is only credible when it ships.
Field-tested case work in the register of an investment memo — the metrics that governed the boardroom decision, not the ones that flattered the deck.
Case Study / 01
Enterprise AI · Heavy IndustryThe CEO Cockpit
Enterprise AI command center cutting C-suite reporting latency by 70% for a $6B aluminum producer.
70%
Reporting Latency ↓
$6B
Asset Base
9 wks
Time to Production
Read Full Brief
Case Study / 02
Predictive ML · CommoditiesPredictive Procurement Engine
ML-driven price forecasting capturing 8% YoY cost reduction on a $300M+ global coal portfolio.
8%
YoY Cost ↓
$300M+
Portfolio Scope
94%
Forecast Accuracy
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Global Trade · Supply Chain AnalyticsCross-Border Trade Architecture
Founding and operating a US-based import/export enterprise — designing multi-modal logistics corridors, customs-compliance frameworks, and real-time shipment visibility across North America, India, and the Indo-Pacific.
3
Active Corridors
40%
Logistics Cost ↓
99%
On-Time Clearance
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Proof · Pause
Metrics that survived the boardroom — before the room speaks for itself.
On the RecordWhat operators say,
What operators say,
when the room thins out.
Attributed by function only — full references provided on direct inquiry, post-NDA.
Vik translated a tangled enterprise-AI thesis into a board-ready operating plan in under three weeks. The cadence held when the room got difficult.
Senior Operating Partner
Industrial PE · $4B AUM
Engagement · 2025
He sits at an unusual seam — strategy register, industrial operator instinct, and a working knowledge of where the AI stack actually breaks. Rare combination.
Group CIO
Global metals & mining major
Advisory · 2024
What stood out wasn't the deck — it was the questions before the deck. Vik finds the decision underneath the decision.
Founder & CEO
Cross-border industrial trade
Boardroom collaboration · 2024
Live signals
The world I read while the slides compile.
A live scan of markets, AI headlines, and my build log — refreshed every minute, straight from the source.
Syncing feed
01 · Markets
Tape
- S&P 500
- Nasdaq 100
- Bitcoin
Source · Yahoo Finance · 30-day close
02 · AI desk
What's moving
Source · HN front-page · AI filter · 7-day window
03 · Build log
Recent commits
Source · GitHub · public events
Between the lines
Strategy is what survives the room after the slides are gone.
A slower, more editorial pause between proof points and the institutional journey.
The Admissions AcceleratorThe 1-Year MBA Gateway:
The 1-Year MBA Gateway:
Demystifying the Ivy League & Global Elite Profiles.
The same frameworks that won national strategy championships and secured admissions into ISB (Dean's List) and Yale School of Management's Master of Advanced Management (MAM) program — codified into a repeatable narrative system for premium candidates.
ProvenanceThe institutions
The institutions
that shaped the operator.
A decade of formation across two of the world's most selective management programs, paired with operating ground truth from heavy industry and global trade corridors.
Yale SOM · MAM '26Yale School of Management · New Haven, CT · MAM '26
Global leadership, networked across 30+ partner schools.
Cohort / MAM 2026
Front row, centre — among a class of forty-eight drawn from twenty-three nations.
Hyderabad · ISB
PGP Dean's List Convocation.
Commencement · 2026
Diploma in hand — a decade of formation made formal.
Old Campus · Spring
Between seminars, on the Cross Campus lawn.
Gala · 2026
Off-record, on-record.
Cross Campus
Where institutional gravity is learned.
Harkness · New Haven
A 300-year operating cadence.
Portrait · 2026
Master of Advanced Management
Yale School of Management
Business & SocietyBoardroom decisions
Boardroom decisions
shape society.
At Yale School of Management, I explored how global enterprises balance profit mandates with stakeholder accountability — presenting a capstone on multinational governance to peers from thirty nations, in the same halls where the next generation of institutional leaders is formed.
Yale SOM · Classroom-as-boardroom
At the podium — multinational team, institutional register.
In DialogueWith Steve Forbes,
With Steve Forbes,
on the AI transformation.
A working conversation with the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media at FreedomFest — on where enterprise AI creates durable operating leverage, and where it merely accelerates old assumptions. The through-line: capital allocation is being rewritten by machines that reason about industrial reality.
FreedomFest · Las Vegas
With Steve Forbes — Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media.
Off-stage · 2026
On AI, capital, and the next industrial cycle.
Field note“The companies that win the next decade won’t be the ones with the biggest models — they’ll be the ones whose operators trust the output enough to bet capital on it.”
Vik Guttikonda · following the exchange with Steve Forbes
Off the CircuitWith Renato Moicano,
With Renato Moicano,
on discipline under pressure.
A moment with UFC lightweight contender Renato Moicano — a reminder that the operating principles behind championship performance and enterprise transformation rhyme: preparation, composure, and the willingness to execute when the room gets loud.
UFC · Fighter Circuit
With Renato Moicano — UFC Lightweight.
Field note“Championship performance and enterprise transformation share the same core: prepare relentlessly, stay composed, and execute when it counts.”
Vik Guttikonda
Institutional cadence
The professional arc is built in public rooms, quiet corridors, and decisions that compound.
Institutional Standing
Credentials that travel.
Verified
AMBA Accredited
Member · Global Network
- Yale UniversitySchool of Management · MAM '26
- Master of Advanced ManagementYale SOM · Global Leadership
- Indian School of BusinessPGP · Dean's List
- AMBA Global NetworkAccredited Member
CertificatesVerifiable, on record.
Verifiable, on record.
Not screenshots.
Two artefacts from the ISB chapter — the AMBA-accredited PGP membership, and a national ranking from the cohort year.
AMBA · ISB
Certificate of Membership
2022
D2C · Top 10
Ranked 6th at ISB
2022
Field notes · Greenwich, CT
Sunday at Greenwich Polo Club.
A few hours off the deck — chukkers in the afternoon, conversations between them. The best client relationships, like the best ponies, are unhurried and well-bred.
The off-deck thesis
"The work of strategy isn't louder slides. It's the trust you've already built before the meeting."
— VKG, Greenwich, Sunday afternoon