Uday Hegde

Uday Hegde is the Co-founder and CEO of USEReady, a New York–headquartered data and AI services firm focused on helping enterprises succeed with modern analytics, BI modernisation, and AI-powered decision intelligence. Founded in January 2011, USEReady has built one of the most consistent track records of partner awards in the analytics ecosystem — recognised as Tableau Services Partner of the Year (2015), Tableau System Integrator of the Year, Americas (2017), Tableau Partner of the Year (2021), and Salesforce Partner of the Year (2024) — alongside Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company and Red Herring Top 100 North America recognition. The firm has been recently named a Seasoned Vendor in the AIM Research PeMa Quadrant for Top GenAI Services 2026, with Uday positioning USEReady's ART framework (Accuracy, Responsibility, Trustworthiness) and the AlphaGenie agentic automation bundle as core differentiators for moving enterprise GenAI from pilots into production. Before USEReady, Uday spent five years at Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York, building the bank's market risk platform and risk data mart, and earlier was a Senior Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He holds a Post Graduate Program in IT from IIIT Bangalore and the Owner President Management programme from Harvard Business School, where he also completed Executive Education in Leading Professional Services Firms.

Uday earns his place on the AIM Next 15 AI CEOs in America 2026 for building one of the most awarded and consistently executing data and AI services firms in the US over the last 15 years — and for navigating the difficult transition from a BI-modernisation business to a GenAI and agentic-AI services business with measurable client outcomes rather than category-following copy. As enterprises move from analytics modernisation into production-grade AI deployment through 2026 and 2027, USEReady's discipline around responsibility, trustworthiness, and outcome measurement positions Uday as one of the operator-leaders shaping how enterprise AI actually gets adopted.