Khitish Mohanty

Khitish Mohanty

Head of AI — GPC Asia Pacific

MBA-qualified AI executive and DocuDive founder with 16+ years driving enterprise-scale AI transformation across automotive, finance, compliance, and RegTech sectors. Currently leading AI strategy, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement for GPC Asia Pacific across the APAC region, working closely with C-suite to shape the future of intelligent automotive operations.

[email protected] +61 0410 896 039 LinkedIn Melbourne, Australia

Key Highlights

SAFe Agilist · AI Strategist · Deal Architect · Digital Transformation Leader

16+
Years of Industry Experience
$20M
Largest Deal Secured
$7.5M
Annual Revenue Growth
60%+
Manual Effort Reduction
$500K
Annual Cloud Cost Savings
$217M
VIC GOV Initiative Delivered
35%
Model Accuracy Boost via VLMs
5★
Client Satisfaction Rating

Professional Experience

A career spanning automotive AI, RegTech, finance, compliance, and public sector

Head of AI — APAC Region Present
GPC Asia Pacific · Melbourne, Australia
AI Strategy, Budgeting, Forecasting & Enterprise AI Transformation for Automotive Aftermarket
  • Lead the AI strategy and roadmap for GPC Asia Pacific, aligning AI initiatives with business objectives across Australia, New Zealand, and South-East Asia.
  • Own and manage the AI budget including annual planning, budget forecasting, resource allocation, and ROI tracking for all AI/ML programs across the APAC region.
  • Work closely with C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, COO) to identify high-impact AI use cases, present business cases, and secure executive sponsorship for AI-driven transformation projects.
  • Drive stakeholder engagement across business units to identify, prioritise, and deliver AI solutions for supply chain optimisation, demand forecasting, inventory management, and customer experience enhancement.
  • Lead project acquisition and scoping by engaging with internal and external stakeholders, building compelling value propositions, and securing buy-in for multi-million dollar AI investments.
  • Establish AI governance frameworks, data strategy, and ethical AI guidelines ensuring responsible deployment across all GPC APAC operations.
  • Build and scale high-performance AI teams, driving talent acquisition, upskilling programs, and cross-functional collaboration between data science, engineering, and business teams.
  • Oversee the development and deployment of predictive analytics, computer vision, NLP, and GenAI solutions to improve operational efficiency across 556+ stores and 12 distribution centres.
  • Champion AI innovation by evaluating emerging technologies (LLMs, VLMs, multi-modal AI) and piloting proof-of-concepts that drive competitive advantage in the automotive aftermarket.
  • Manage vendor relationships and strategic partnerships with cloud providers, AI tool vendors, and academic institutions to accelerate AI capabilities.
Data Science Manager / Delivery Manager Sep 2020 — 2024
Cube Global · Melbourne, Australia
RegTech Management · Document Structuring · Computer Vision & GenAI
  • Promoted to spearhead two data science teams (11 members) managing a $10M business portfolio focusing on Computer Vision, GenAI-LLM and multi-modal VLM technologies.
  • Masterminded training and fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models (InternVL, GPT-4, Gemini 2.5 Pro), boosting model accuracy by up to 35%.
  • Architected end-to-end AI platform leveraging multi-modal models, microservices on Kubernetes, and event-driven pipelines (Argo, Kafka), reducing manual effort by 60%+.
  • Negotiated cloud vendor cost-saving strategies achieving $500K annual expense reduction.
  • Cultivated strategic partnerships that surged revenue by $2M and expanded into 3 new markets, growing annual sales by $7.5M.
  • Elevated client satisfaction from 3-star to 5-star rating across 4 jurisdictions with 30+ regulatory bodies.
Data Science Manager Jan 2020 — Sep 2020
Stratton Finance · Melbourne, Australia
Lead Scoring & Business Process Modelling · CRM AI Integration
  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver a lead scoring engine integrated with Salesforce CRM, resulting in 20% reduction in consultant handling time.
  • Designed AI architecture integrating Salesforce CRM, XGBoost-based scoring engine, and BI dashboards with 40% improvement in predictive accuracy.
  • Deployed BPMN-based workflows automating lead qualification, increasing due diligence efficiency by 25%.
Data Science Manager Sep 2017 — Dec 2020
Department of Premier and Cabinet · Melbourne, Australia
Public Sentiment Monitoring & Election Campaign Optimisation
  • Orchestrated 2018 Victoria state election campaign analysis using NLP insights from social media, advising MPs on speech strategies.
  • Led design of 'KHITISHIFY' — NLP-based text analytics tool named in honour of recognition, transitioning manual to automated reporting.
  • Supported the VIC GOV's $217.72M Pick My Project initiative through AI-driven market analysis.
  • Deployed ML models for image recognition achieving 95% accuracy rate for public figure identification.
Senior Data Scientist Mar 2017 — Sep 2017
Equifax (Capgemini) · Melbourne, Australia
Risk Management & Fraud Detection
  • Developed predictive models (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting) reducing credit risk by 30%+.
  • Created recommender system for fraud trend analysis using XGBoost and Random Forest algorithms.
Senior Data Scientist Sep 2013 — Mar 2017
ANZ Banking Group (Capgemini) · Melbourne, Australia
FATCA Compliance · Customer Compliance Analysis
  • Award-winning contributor to FATCA compliance project avoiding potential $10M–$100M fines.
  • Automated fraud detection using clustering algorithms (KNN, DBSCAN), reducing analysis time from 3 weeks to 1 week.
  • Led consulting efforts growing the team from initial members to 26 team members.
Data Scientist Aug 2012 — Sep 2013
Volvo Cars · Gothenburg, Sweden
Inventory Management & Operational Resource Forecasting
  • Developed forecasting models enhancing inventory stock prediction by 43%.
  • Built classification and regression models achieving 96% shipping accuracy.
Data Scientist Jun 2011 — Aug 2012
CommBank of Australia (Accenture) · Bangalore, India
Deposits Banking Product Pricing Forecast
  • Developed Product Price Forecasting Tool with 97% accuracy for deposits banking products.
  • Implemented linear regression model resulting in 10% growth in deposit volumes.
Test Consultant Jun 2009 — Jun 2011
Bank of America (Accenture) · Bangalore, India
Online Mortgage Application & Pre-qualification Testing
  • Award-winning team player; reduced critical defects pre-launch to zero with lean six sigma.
  • Improved testing cycle times by 30% through comprehensive UAT planning.

Technology Stack

A comprehensive toolkit spanning data engineering, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, and Generative AI

Data Engineering & BI

Apache AirflowSpark / PySparkKafkaKinesisDBTPostgreSQLSnowflakeRedshiftBigQueryPower BITableauLooker Studio

DevOps & Cloud

DockerKubernetesAWSAzureGCPTerraformGitHub ActionsArgo WorkflowsPrometheusGrafanaELK StackJenkins

AI / ML / Computer Vision

Faster RCNNDetectron2YOLO V5/V6ResNetSpaCyHugging FaceBERTXGBoostRandom ForestsSVMK-MeansPCA

GenAI — LLMs & VLMs

GPT-4 Fine-tuningGemini Fine-tuningLlama (7b–13b)InternVL (38b–78b)LangChainCrewAILangGraphRAGONNXTorchScriptPyTorchTensorFlow

Languages

PythonRSQLJavaScriptDAXM CodeVBScriptShellPowerShell

Leadership & Methodology

SAFe AgilistBudget ForecastingStakeholder ManagementC-Suite AdvisoryTeam Building (26+ members)Vendor NegotiationDeal ArchitectureLean Six Sigma

Products Built

AI-driven products that delivered measurable business impact

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Product Price Forecasting Tool

ML-powered pricing engine for CommBank deposits products, predicting prices with 97% accuracy and enabling data-driven sales negotiations.

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KHITISHIFY — Text Analytics Tool

NLP platform adopted by Victoria Government for sentiment analysis, intent analysis, and topic modelling, enhancing reporting capability by 50%+.

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Auto-Training

Computer vision application that reduced AI model training time by 40% through automated data labelling and pipeline optimisation.

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Auto Document Layout

Multi-modal (CV + LLM) innovation for legal compliance document processing, cutting processing costs by 25%.

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Pick My Project

Successfully delivered Victorian Government initiative facilitating $217.72M in business funding allocation.

Education

2023–24

Executive MBA

University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School (MBS)

India Immersion Program at Indian School of Business

2004–08

B.Tech in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Silicon University, India

Entrepreneurial Ventures

DocuDive — Founder

An AI company pioneering intelligent document processing solutions. Leveraging multi-modal AI, computer vision, and large language models to transform how organisations extract, structure, and analyse complex documents at enterprise scale.