Rakesh Maisuria

The short version

For over two decades I have operated at the intersection of enterprise strategy and technical execution. My career has one recurring pattern: being brought in when programmes stall, when political complexity overwhelms delivery, and when organisations need someone who can operate across boardrooms and engineering floors.

In 2025 I founded Helionics, where we build Helios, a vertical AI platform that turns an industrial supply chain's inbox into verifiable records. AI agents mine emails and PDFs into structured, tamper-evident evidence (proven on a public 500,000-email corpus); an intervention board tells the right person what is broken and what it costs today; and everything ships with human sign-off by design. It is the most concentrated proof I can offer. I advise on agentic AI because I ship it.

Before that, I led the GenAI innovation portfolio at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, moving AI from pilot to production in a regulated legal environment where hallucination risk is unacceptable, across 2,500+ legal professionals in 28 offices.

At Shell, I spent twelve years reporting into the CTO office. Digital twins with C3.ai, Kognitwin and Azure ML. 3,000 developers migrated to Azure DevOps, three months early, cutting run costs 40%. HPC cloud migrations moving 100+ petabytes of seismic data at 35% lower cost. SAP S/4HANA across EMEA, the Americas and APAC. Vendor ecosystems spanning Palantir, SAP, Microsoft and AWS across 50 countries.

Before Shell: crisis turnarounds at T-Mobile, emergency-services infrastructure for police, fire and ambulance at O2 Airwave, and post-merger integration for JP Morgan and Schroders through CGI and CSC.

I am also a former TeamGB Paralympic athlete. The discipline, focus and composure that competitive sport demands carries directly into how I approach enterprise delivery.