Priya Sarathy PhD

Dr. Priya Sarathy is a passionate advocate for responsible AI, data strategy, and business transformation. With over 25 years of experience in analytics, enterprise data, and innovation leadership, she has successfully guided organizations from "data chaos to insight-driven confidence". As the founder of Wheel Data Strategies, Priya partners with small and mid-sized businesses to blend strategic clarity with real-world execution, helping them achieve sustainable, scalable impact from AI. She is noted for her ability to simplify complex topics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an invited guest at executive roundtables.

Her experience working with leading companies like IBM, AT&T, and SAS allowed her to observe and practice the art of decision making at the cutting edge of technology, where the capability existed but the deployment was in new uncharted territories. Translating those lessons to today, Priya has provided a rich backdrop of use cases from her personal and consulting experiences.

Priya has been a leader guiding analytics teams and product design of data and "AI-led" assets deployments. While predictive AI was narrowly used in organizations in marketing, operations, and risk management typically, GenAI has made them accessible to all parts of the organization. This democratization brings many leaders into an uncomfortable zone of leading AI initiatives for their domains.

Priya wrote AI Leadership Compass for leaders who want to "not just use AI, but to lead with it". Her work is deeply rooted in the belief that AI should be used responsibly and intentionally, especially when it influences business-critical or human-impacting decisions.