About

Shantanu Patil is a Senior Director of Program Management at arturo.ai, an AI property analytics company that helps insurance carriers improve the accuracy and speed of decision-making across claims, underwriting, pricing, and renewals. He has a T-shaped profile with a focus on optimizing business processes by reducing non-value added activities within value streams. Shantanu is a self-motivated and enthusiastic Industrial Engineer with a belief that technology can solve the world's most challenging problems. Shantanu has expertise in translating vision into departmental roadmaps and KPIs driven operations plan, objectives, and key results. He is skilled in implementing Lean Performance Management System (LPMS) for employee engagement and systematic problem-solving, driving continuous improvement through cost report analysis, and project management. He also has experience in safety engineering, risk modeling and assessment, design of experiments, simulation modeling for operations analysis, and technology commercialization. Shantanu has organizational leadership experience as Vice President for Graduate Affairs of the Student Government Association at Texas Tech University and as Chief Aptitude Developer and Service Organizer at SOFTA. He is a team player, innovative thinker, goal-oriented, impatient optimist with an entrepreneurial spirit. In his previous role as Digitalization Program Lead at Schaeffler, Shantanu was responsible for rolling out Operations Digitalization Program under Schaeffler's 'Industry 4.0 & Digitalization' strategy. He also led the Digitalization team for implementing advanced engineering topics such as Collaborative Robots (Cobots), Artificial Intelligence Vision Systems (AI), Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS), Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), Web-based Operations Support Softwares, and Virtual Reality Glasses for Remote Support. Shantanu has also worked as a Lean Manufacturing Engineer and MOVE Specialist at Schaeffler, where he led and facilitated continuous improvement workshops and drove 'Operational Excellence' initiatives. Shantanu holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, and an Associate's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering. He has relevant experience of 5.95 years and is skilled in AI and web technologies. Shantanu is a positive, achiever, responsible, activator, and initiator, and his reading and listening interests include entrepreneurship, leadership and business management, Industry 4.0 & Digitalization, value creation process, and human & organizational psychology.