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      Shameek Kundu

      Shameek Kundu

      Senior AI Advisor

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      Shameek is a senior data and AI leader with over 25 years experience in financial services. He has served as Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered Bank, Chief AI Officer at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Associate Partner at McKinsey in London.

      Shameek’s recent professional focus has been on the reliable scaling of AI in Financial services. He was one of the co-authors of the MAS’ regulatory guidelines on AI in financial services (FEAT, 2018), served on the AI public private expert forum of the Bank of England and headed the Singapore Government’s AI testing initiative (AI Verify). He also worked in Silicon Valley between 2021 and 2024, at AI testing startup TruEra.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 2:25–3:00pmFri 20 NovFounders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremiumModerator

        Capital Rewiring

        Can An AI Wrapper Ever Become a Scalable Business?

        Founders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremiumModerator

        About this session

        Adding conversational wrappers and light automation layers over third-party models provided quick early ARR, but enterprise buyers are cutting through the veneer. Carta’s State of Private Markets analysis reveals that software companies driven by signed enterprise workflow contracts trade at a median 11.8x revenue, whereas startups reliant on pilot or usage-based AI features clear at just 5.2x. Furthermore, McKinsey’s enterprise AI research highlights that fewer than 20% of adopting companies report bottom-line EBIT impact. This session equips founders to construct defensible domain data integrations and proprietary workflows that survive upstream platform commoditization.