Ranjan Kumar is a Bengaluru-based technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Entropik, a Human Insights AI company he started in 2016 to reinvent the century-old market research industry. An IIT Kharagpur graduate who once headed business at Citrus Payment Solutions before its acquisition by PayU, he built Entropik around Emotion AI - facial coding, eye tracking and voice analysis - to read the subconscious signals behind consumer decisions. He is now building his next venture, DecisionX AI, and describes himself as a three-time founder.
Jared Yaman is the CEO and a co-founder of Spresso, a New York-based AI company that builds pricing intelligence and price-optimization software for retail, CPG, and ecommerce businesses. A three-time founder with a University of Michigan law and economics background, he previously co-founded and served as COO of Boxed, the online wholesale retailer that competed with Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, weathered the pandemic, and went public before winding down. At Spresso he is turning the pricing engine built inside Boxed into a standalone product, arguing that AI should supplement rather than replace human judgment.