Padmanabhan Venkatesan

Padmanabhan Venkatesan

Padmanabhan (Paddy) is a cloud-native platform and product engineering leader with a focus on data-driven platforms, microservices and cloud-native engineering, and modernizing legacy technology and products. He is Senior Vice President & General Manager leading the Global Consumer Tech vertical at Persistent, and his team enables Digital Product Engineering for their customers across Retail, CPG, Travel, and Logistics.

Paddy has led and managed several large industry verticals and P&Ls across Communications, Media, Hi-tech, Semiconductor, and Retail and CPG. He has delivered several digital transformational programs across these verticals, enabling product-to-platform transformation, modernizing enterprises, and driving newer SaaS-based business models, and transforming platforms to subscription-based business models.
Unlocking Retail Success: Harnessing Unstructured Data for Enhanced Customer Engagement

Retailers worldwide are achieving significant growth in sales and profitability by employing omnichannel consumer engagement strategies across online, mobile and social platforms. This approach enables hyperpersonalization, accurate demand forecasting, and efficient inventory management. These benefits extend to dynamic bundling and pricing management, global supplier management, programmatic procurement, and cost-effective last mile logistics. These strategies are…