Aditya Rajashekaran · London
AVP Product, IntellectAI · ex-MetLife innovation lab · Oxford MBA, Distinction
AI product and go-to-market leader. Since 2014 in regulated finance and insurance. Now scaling Purple Fabric, IntellectAI's agent platform.
Three proofs
Career line
Apr 2021 – now · LondonIntellectAIAVP Product, scaling Purple Fabric. Senior Project Manager until 2025.
2019 – 2020 · OxfordSaïd Business SchoolMBA, with Distinction.
2014 – 2019 · Singapore, IndiaMetLifeInnovation Manager at LumenLab, its Asia innovation centre. Before that, the MD's office at PNB MetLife India.
2010 – 2014 · Los AngelesOccidental CollegeBA Economics, cum laude. Film minor.NDTV Prime, The Economic Times, IDC, Institute of International Finance, Business Wire, FT Adviser, Asia Insurance Review awards.
Proof 1 of 3
Zero to one: the first working version of something new, built sitting beside the customer who will use it.
contract won, then saved
I wrote the bid that beat four competitors and hired the two Heads of ESG that Intellect lacked. At month ten, machine learning had stalled. I ran the R&D myself and proved an LLM harness to the CTO, who gave me a team of eight. We shipped in five days.
All 9,000 portfolio companies covered in depth, up from 60 to 80 a year.
international sell-and-implement partner
I built it alone in six weeks, demoed it to Nikao and led the relationship to a signed partnership.
customers, over 90% positive
I conceived it, pitched it at 23, built it and proved it in 15 branches across 10 Indian cities.
Proof 2 of 3
Each first becomes a bootcamp, a deck, or a reference doc others run without me.
share price, in the week after
Investors asked on an earnings call what Purple Fabric was for. I wrote the story and the deck and storyboarded the presentation experience. The Chairman and the CTO presented it on 19 December 2024, and the press tied the rally to Purple Fabric.
Purple Fabric became its own business 18 months later.
MongoDB clients handed the book
The CTO and others built the relationship. I wrote the first partner design MongoDB ever published and the case study in its book.
in the Academy I started
I wrote and ran the first partner bootcamp: NPS 71, zero detractors. 50+ bootcamps since, and a digital Academy under a lead I onboarded.
Proof 3 of 3
Try it. Break it. Fix it. Ship it. That's how I learned to engineer.
Built, tested with real families, then paused.
Public speaking for UK teenagers, co-founded with a barrister. I built the whole business and taught the pitching sessions. Families came to the tasters, but too few converted, so we paused it while we decide if it is worth the effort.
Personal trainers validated it before launch.
I read the nutrition literature with AI and built MacroMentor, the calculator I wished existed.
Seventeen live scenes, built solo in six weeks.
ORPHIC turns the audio already playing on your machine into a live light show.
On record
Talks, panels, webinars and press. Each one links to the recording or the article.
Attendees said it changed how they judge vendors.
A live multi-agent demo took a complaints case from five weeks to twenty minutes in front of 500 bankers.
Why building an agent is easier than validating it.
With Eugene Wu of Columbia's DAP Lab, on what it takes to trust AI agents in regulated environments.
Purple Fabric's answer, on record.
The four barriers that stall enterprise AI after the pilot.
About
I'm based in London, AVP at IntellectAI, working on product and go-to-market for Purple Fabric. Reach me at aditya@horizonfall.com or on LinkedIn.
