Rishi has over 11+ years of experience in business & digital analytics, consumer insights & innovation and business strategy across FMCG, Consumer Healthcare & Financial services Space.
Currently leading Analytics & Insights for Asia Pacific at Subway, the world’s largest QSR chain restaurants and building a better brand & customer experience for Subway users both inside & outside the restaurants
He was instrumental in institutionalizing a culture of “Insights based decision making” within the company and has continued to champion the cause through his stint.
He is passionate about building objective, scalable solutions using data & insights and have experience solving prediction, classification, reinforcement and optimization problems using research & statistics. Through the years, he has partnered with some of the leading MNC companies in APAC, India, Middle East & Africa, to identify white space opportunities, devise strategies for share growth, launch better innovations and renovations, forecast new product sales, optimise their marketing mix, effectively plan price and portfolios and execute better in store experience.
He is also an active contributor in many industry and academic forums on topics related to consumer insights & innovations