Abhinav Batra
Background and experience
Abhinav is a data, analytics and AI technology leader and recognized industry expert, partnering with business and IT teams and helping organizations transform their tech and analytics capabilities. He specializes in data and agentic architecture, cloud-computing and platforms enabling classical and agentic AI enabled analytics solutions.
Abhinav has over 15 years of cumulative experience working within data engineering, advanced analytics, AI and machine learning, business intelligence, information management, data warehousing, data lake, cloud computing, big data and multiagent architectures and agentic AI-enabled use-case development. He holds multiple industry certifications from leading cloud technology hyperscaler platforms, including Databricks-certified data engineer and generative AI engineer, Snowflake-certified SnowPro Core and AWS-certified solutions architect and big data specialist.
He currently leads ZS’s enterprise data management practice for Americas, and co-leads a subpractice in charge of development of agentic AI-enabled accelerators and solutions geared toward making the end-to-end data management life cycle more efficient (AI for data) and making data products ready for AI and agentic AI consumption (data for AI). He has enabled the design and development of the latest technology solutions and published point-of-views that have helped ZS become a leading technology services consulting firm for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
In his client-facing role, Abhinav specializes at the intersection of technology and the commercial pharma domain and drives client adoption of next-generation of offerings and POVs in the realms of cloud-native data management, domain-driven data products, scaled analytics and agentic AI.
Education
Master’s degree in information systems management with a specialization in business intelligence and data analytics, Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Pune University