I build things that connect the dots — between technology and truth, systems and people, curiosity and impact.

For more than 15 years, I led technology for a billion-dollar global enterprise, modernizing ERP, AI, and supply chains that fed millions of customers every day. It was equal parts engineering and empathy — translating business ambition into digital transformation that actually worked.

That experience taught me something important: technology isn’t powerful because it’s complex — it’s powerful because it’s real. Grounded. Useful. Human.

That belief drives everything I do now.

At VORTX.AI, I’m leading a team that’s redefining how AI learns from the world around it. We’re building the world’s first Grounded AI platform, combining satellite intelligence, geospatial data, and anti-spoofing systems to make AI more trustworthy — for industries that can’t afford to be wrong. From New York to Bengaluru, we’re building truth at planetary scale through partnerships with NVIDIA and Seraphim Space.

With AIRONCLAD Technology & Advisors, I help enterprises bring the promise of AI down to earth — with tools like SpendIQ for predictive cost optimization and ResearchIQ for personalized executive insight. And through CIOs for CIOs, I’ve helped create a global peer network where technology leaders share playbooks, not pitches.

I’ve always believed innovation should feel as natural as curiosity. That’s why I still code, prototype, and experiment — whether it’s training AI models, exploring the chemistry of food molecules, or mapping patterns between leadership, sport, and design.

Travel keeps me curious. Sports keep me honest. Food keeps me grounded.
Together, they remind me that creativity isn’t a discipline — it’s a habit.

🏆 Recognition & Media
New York Enterprise CIO of the Year (ORBIE Awards) • BT150 Global Transformation Leader • Top 5 Digital Transformation Leader (Manufacturing Leadership Council) • Featured in WSJ CIO Journal, Cloud Wars, and Acceleration Economy


Suvajit Basu

Retail doesn't have an AI problem. It has a decision problem.
Here's a stat that should make every retail executive pause: 90% of retail organizations call themselves AI-adopters, but only 30% report measurable business value from analytics.¹
That 60-point gap? It's not a technology problem. It's a decision enablement problem.
Most retailers already have the tech stack:
Data lakes ✓
BI tools ✓
Forecasting engines ✓
Dashboards galore ✓
Yet every Monday, the same questions surface:
Why did sales dip in Region X? Was it price, promo, supply, or weather? And who owns the decision?
The uncomfortable truth heading into NRF 2026:
Dashboards describe. Decisions demand understanding.
Retail leaders aren't asking for more charts, prettier visuals, or faster refresh rates.
They're asking for:
Context — what's really happening
Causality — why it's happening
Confidence — the clarity to act
AI that can't explain why is just automation theater.
NRF 2026 will be loud. The winners will be the platforms that help executives stop debating and start deciding.
Question for the retail community: What's the one decision your dashboards still can't answer?
¹ McKinsey & Company: "The State of AI in Business" (2025)

🛰 Co-Founder & Co-CEO, VORTX.AI | Building Grounded AI & Space Intelligence Systems | Former CIO of a Billion-Plus Global Enterprise | Exited Founder | NY CIO of the Year

Electricity without wires! Fiery electricity, lightning, wireless transmission comes together in this innovation. 

Do we need this? Is it safe? I once was 200 ft from a lightning strike, effects were not good. 

Also noted, the rise of Helsinki as an innovation hub. 

#electricity #finland #invention #wireless

Republic Day. India Gate. A moment that stays with you. 🇮🇳

Standing here, watching disciplined ranks move forward with quiet resolve, you feel it—the weight of sacrifice, the strength of institutions, and the meaning of sovereignty earned, protected, and exercised.

A republic isn’t built on noise or convenience.
It’s built on duty, resilience, and the collective will to govern ourselves.

In a rapidly shifting world order—where power is contested, technology reshapes influence, and sovereignty is tested every day—Republic Day feels more relevant than ever.

A strong republic stands tall not because it is loud—but because it is grounded in values, discipline, and purpose.

Happy Republic Day. Jan 26th. 

#RepublicDay #IndiaGate #Sovereignty #NewWorldOrder #NationBuilding #Leadership #EnduringValues #india

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Take Control of Your Personal Data - Today on #DataPrivacyDay 2026—‘You have the power to take charge of your data’—but this just happened:
I casually mentioned a restaurant name out loud in my car. No typing, no search, no app open. Hours later at home, YouTube recommends a video of that exact restaurant.
No coincidence? Google Assistant’s ‘always listening’ for ‘Hey Google’ has a history of false activations recording ambient speech—leading to the $68M settlement this month over privacy violations and unintended data use for ads/recommendations.

Confession: Google remains my daily essential despite these red flags.

Has Google (or any app) eerily ‘known’ something you only said aloud? 

Share your story below—what was it, which service, and do you still use it?

#TakeChargeOfYourData #GooglePrivacy

The "January Factory Reset" is officially here.

The final week of January 2026 just sent a shockwave through the US corporate landscape:
• Amazon: 16,000 corporate roles cut Wednesday (30,000 total since October).
• UPS: 30,000 jobs being cut to "further deploy automation."
• Meta: 1,500 roles gone in Reality Labs as budgets pivot to AI.
• The Toll: 22,000+ tech layoffs this month alone.

We are witnessing the end of the "Great Resignation" and the brutal start of the "Great Re-invention."
Companies aren't just "restructuring"—they are liquidating headcount to fund $100B+ AI bets. 

If your value is based on "process management," the floor is moving. If your value is based on AI-driven outcomes, you are the architect.

The Great Resignation is dead. The Great Re-invention has begun.
CEOs aren't just cutting; they are re-funding for the AI wars. Don’t just "Job Hug." Build your brand. 

#TechLayoffs #AmazonLayoffs #UPS #AI2026 #CareerPivot

With 22k+ USA layoffs this month, how are you playing the 2026 job market?


Accounting is not boring anymore! I think this AI infused accounting and ERP and systems will make business move faster. 

Faster decisions, faster cash flow, faster the speed of business.

Helping small accounting firms automate 1040 prep with AI. Co-founder, CEO of Sweet.

Anyone who thinks accounting is boring wasn’t an accountant in 2025.

Here's the year in review. 

➡️ Surveys show nearly 50% of accountants use AI in their working life now, a sharp increase from last year 
➡️ Tax agents are coming: ChatGPT Agent mode completed a tax return in TurboTax successfully
➡️ Ledgers are getting better: Xero announced their financial superagent JAX
➡️ Big 4 is changing: PwC announced in 3 years, juniors will be doing managers' work (managing AI agents), KPMG added AI use to their staff performance reviews. They're making $B+'s in AI investments. 
➡️ Deloitte rolled out Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to 500,000 employees worldwide
➡️ New AI roles are appearing in firms - like AI champion, automation leads, etc
➡️ The IRS identified a record $9.1 billion in tax fraud in FY 2024
➡️ A new acting IRS commissioner, Scott Bessent
➡️ Professional tax prep as a service isn't going anywhere: IRS tried, and ended, direct file
➡️ The AICPA launches their own AI chat, Josi - trained on industry guidelines
➡️ AI isn't perfect: Deloitte gave the Australian government a $440k report with AI hallucinations
➡️ Small firms are starting to adopt AI tools in a real way across CAS, tax, ops,  payroll, and more.
➡️ New agents and features from all the legacy companies (that nobody is talking about?) ; SAP, Oracle, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer
➡️ Intuit launched Intuit Intelligence, a suite of agents across their entire platform
➡️ Intuit partnered with OpenAI in a landmark partnership to bring financial intelligence to more ChatGPT users
➡️ The AI ERP market got over $200M in funding, w/ new startups like Rillet, Campfire, and DualEntry
➡️ PE aren't the only buyers anymore: OpenAI invested in Thrive Holdings, a massive rollup firm buying accounting firms 
➡️ New AI-native products in the accounting space are replacing decade-old tech stacks: Sweet, Abacor, BlueJ, Vic.ai, Aiwyn, Basis, Laurel AI, COUNT, Taxwire, Quanto, and many more 

Most people think accounting is slow-moving, low risk, not exciting. But that's just not true. 

This is one of the fastest changing industries - 
With a massive displacement of the workforce and AI completely changing how accountants fulfill their profession's purpose: to help clients' financial lives and keep the money moving around the world in the right way. 

Happy holidays everyone! See you in 2026.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 "𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭" 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭: Today is Friday, January 30, 2026. This week’s news cycle has been dominated by the loud and the volatile—geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a tech sector grappling with an "AI reality check."

But if you look past the noise, the real tectonic shifts are happening in places many are still calling "un-hyped."

𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 $𝟭 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗺

Eli Lilly ($LLY) is currently sitting on a market cap of over $𝟵𝟲𝟴 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. We’ve spent the last two years obsessing over GPU chips and LLMs, yet one of the most significant wealth-creation engines in history is coming from 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, not just silicon. The massive scale of the GLP-1 market is rewriting the rules of healthcare and consumer behavior simultaneously.

𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗹" 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀

While headlines focus on Western protectionism and tariffs, India and the EU just finalized a landmark Free Trade Agreement this week (January 27).
● 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲: A free trade zone of 𝟮 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.
● 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁: Massive tariff slashes (e.g., EU cars in India dropping from 110% to 10%) and a multi-billion dollar integration of global supply chains.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

We often look to Silicon Valley to tell us what the "future" looks like. But right now, the future is being written in pharma labs in Indianapolis and trade offices in New Delhi.

As leaders, are we too narrow in where we look for disruption? If your 2026 strategy is 100% focused on software and domestic policy, you might be missing the actual movement of the global needle.

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁: Progress is often quiet before it’s transformative. Where are you looking for the "quiet" signals today?

#GlobalTrade #EliLilly #IndiaEU #BusinessStrategy #Innovation #FutureOfWork

The January Tech "Factory Reset" hit India hard this week.

The numbers are a wake-up call for Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune:
• Amazon India: 500+ corporate roles cut in BLR/HYD (part of 16,000 global).
• TCS: 12,000 roles (2% of staff) being reduced through the March quarter.
• Global Total: 22,000+ tech layoffs this month alone.
The "Great Resignation" is over. Welcome to the "Great Re-invention."
Companies are reallocating billions from headcount to AI infrastructure. If your role is repeatable, it’s at risk. If you are building a brand around AI-fluency, you are the future.

#india #jobs #layoffs

With 22k layoffs this month, what is your 2026 strategy?

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