Larry Persaud

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About Larry Persaud

Larry Persaud is a principal software engineer and business strategist involved in projects aimed at digital transformation across enterprise ecosystems. He has over 15 years of experience in leading digital transformation programs and product innovation strategy for Fortune 500 companies. Larry has significant experience in both the business and technology aspects of the Retail, Supply Chain, Media, Aviation, Manufacturing, Energy, Healthcare, Pharma, Finserv, and other verticals. Larry’s business acumen is demonstrated in his breakthrough industry concepts aimed at delivering an outstanding customer experience. His ground-breaking concepts, such as inventory optimization, computer vision, and video analytics, enables consumer shopping in Kroger’s retail stores. He has designed and deployed a commerce ecosystem (open platform capabilities – AI, Data, Tooling & Operations), in collaboration with key stakeholders at 3rd party logistics providers, to offer inventory placement, fulfilment capabilities, and optimized transportation to retailers, suppliers, brands, manufactures, and merchants. He has also transformed consumer experience digital by creating a new level of customer service, and offering a personalized touch through AI, digital reality, analytics. His key business focus areas are strategic planning, customer centricity, business transformation, business value realization, innovation strategy. His technology thought leadership has been instrumental in developing data monetization strategies, creating vision / concepts, managing product innovation (from incubation to scale SaaS solutions), spearheading growth initiatives for AI and System of Intelligence solutions, providing business & technical solution architecture, and advising clients, product engineering on designing distributed systems with cloud platform. Larry designed an innovative SaaS platform for EY’s Tax and Finance Function, enabling the enterprise’s top customers to benefit from reduced operating cost and next-generation technology. He was also involved in Azure Sphere MCUs project, aimed at accelerating the transition of billions of MCU-based devices to connected devices with a secure connection to Azure. His key technical focus areas are cloud PaaS, SaaS applications, enterprise architecture, corporate governance, AI, ML & data solutions, product design & development. He has worked closely with companies such as Starbucks, Air Canada, Thomson Reuters, Kroger, Walmart, McDonalds, Seadrill, NBCU, Sky-TV, Dow Chemical, Hong Kong Exchange, Mastercard, Citibank, NCR, Japan Rail.