Shashank Garg

Shashank Garg is the Co-founder and CEO of Infocepts, a global data and AI solutions company headquartered in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in June 2004 with co-founder Rohit Bhayana, Infocepts has spent two decades helping enterprises bridge the gap between business strategy and data-driven execution — serving thousands of clients across retail, telecom, financial services, healthcare, media, life sciences, and the public sector. The firm's current focus, framed by Shashank as "DecideBetter," is on moving organisations from AI pilots to scaled, run-the-business execution — particularly through next-generation analytics, semantic layer architectures, and agentic AI applied to live business processes rather than demos.

Over the past twelve months, Shashank has emerged as one of the more thoughtful operator-voices on enterprise AI execution — publishing extensively on the gap between AI activity and AI outcomes, the rise of the semantic layer as an architectural reality (not a buzzword), and the transition from dashboards to decisions at the moment of action in retail and life sciences. Infocepts has been particularly active in pharmaceutical commercial analytics (presenting at PMSA 2026), retail digital twins (showcased at NRF 2026), and drug-launch analytics — building out a portfolio that treats AI not as a productivity layer, but as a redesign of how decisions get made.

Before founding Infocepts, Shashank was a MicroStrategy consultant for two years, followed by three years as an independent consultant — work that gave him an early ground-level view of how US enterprises actually use, and fail to use, their data. He holds a Master's in Materials Engineering and Information Systems from the University of Maryland and a B.E. in Metallurgy from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT Nagpur). He is the founder of the InfoCepts Foundation and a non-profit dedicated to running, health, and community wellness, and writes regularly in CDO Magazine on the data and AI agenda for enterprise leaders.

Shashank earns his place on the AIM Next 15 AI CEOs in America 2026 for the rare combination of operating discipline and editorial clarity he brings to the AI execution conversation — and for building one of the few global data and AI services firms that has consistently emphasised strategy and outcomes over pilots and theatre. As enterprises in 2026 move from AI experimentation to scaled production deployment, the gap Infocepts has been closing for two decades — between data infrastructure that exists and decisions that actually happen — is now the gap defining who wins and loses with AI.