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Entrepreneurship and preparing for a career in Data Sciences: Milind Kelkar

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My guest today is Milind Kelkar Milind is a veteran of consumer research and analytics domains and is currently the Chief Analytics Officer at Unpickle, a Customer Experience Platform provider He holds a doctorate degree in marketing sciences from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as well as a metallurgical engineering degree from VNIT, Nagpur. In his last corporate role before turning into an entrepreneur 7 years back, Milind was heading Products & Solutions at Genpact, a global leader in Business Process Management. Previously, he had held leadership roles in analytics consulting companies like Kantar and Marketics and also at a large bank, HSBC At Unpickle, Milind specializes in text analytics for open ended questions in customer surveys and online reviews. Last 7 years, Unpickle has continuously improved the quality of insights with AI-generated themes, and provided 99%+ confidence level in analytics outputs with their in-house proprietary platform, Infopickle. Milind is currently partnering with other Industry players to empower Business analysts in code-free analytics. To know more about Unpickle's solutions , please visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/unpickle/ In my chat with Milind, we speak about his vision and planning to become an entrepreneur and the unique solutions that Unpickle offers. He also speaks on specific steps to follow for students and young professionals from different educational backgrounds who want to enter and excel in the exciting domain of analytics. Happy listening

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