Nachiket Mehta is a visionary data and technology executive with over 20 years of experience driving large-scale digital and AI transformations across retail, e-commerce, healthcare, fintech, and enterprise functions. Most recently, Nachiket served as a Head of Data and Analytics for Global Operations and Enterprise at Wayfair, where he led a global team supporting supply chain, customer service, finance, HR, and legal, driving the data modernization, AI-driven personalization, and real-time decision intelligence. Nachiket has evangelized data-as-a-product culture change and scaled data platforms using cloud-native architectures, data mesh, and federated governance. He has spearheaded GenAI initiatives on top of solid data foundations that significantly improved productivity, efficiency, and customer experience. He is a frequent board advisor and guest lecturer, with deep experience partnering with C-suite leaders and boards to embed data as a competitive advantage. His early career includes co-founding a FoodTech marketplace, leading customer data platform (CDP) product and services at Quaero (now part of CSG) and consulting data-driven transformations at Fortune 500 firms. He is passionate about making disconnected data usable for automated decisions with a particular interest in Shift Left Data strategy to bridge software, data, and science gaps for AI readiness in complex environments.