About

Subu Rao is an accomplished CEO and Founder of Discover Dollar, a company that helps enterprises discover value from data. With over 9 years of relevant experience, Subu has been at the forefront of developing a revolutionary product and solution that resolves revenue leakages and overpayments while automating recovery audit claims, leading to multi-million dollar savings for clients. His responsibilities include liaising with clients, including Fortune 500 companies' CXOs and decision-makers, top-down approach for sales, leveraging on network and partner for reaching and acquiring international clients, and closing large deals. Subu is also the conceptualizer and architect of next-gen breakthrough algorithms that read emails and unstructured data and extract business-critical information. He has developed business scenarios, flowcharts, models, calculation views, text analytics, and algorithms to capture overpayments. Additionally, he provides consulting services on merchandise analytics and general administration and business development across multiple verticals. Subu's achievements include being awarded "Top 5 Most Innovative Solution" by SAP in SAPPHIRE 2014 and being evaluated as a "High Value" solution by SAP Value Engineering Team in 2014, making it eligible to be listed in SAP Hana Market. He has also been featured in Wharton Business School's course curriculum "Technology & Entrepreneurship" and represented Indian Startups at TiECon 2015 at Silicon Valley. Subu has closed million-dollar deals with Fortune 500 companies and was featured among Emerging 50 Top Retail Software Companies by CIO Review 2015. He is the winner of the Award from IIM Bangalore, TiE Bangalore & Govt of Karnataka, and the winner of Innopreneur 2015 at IMT Nagpur, Amrita TBI, Ministry of Science. Subu's educational background includes a Post Graduate Program in Data Science & Machine Learning from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MBA PGDM in Finance and Marketing from SDM Institute for Management Development, a Diploma in Banking & Finance from Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, and a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Marketing from Mangalore University. He has also worked as a Mentor at e-cell, IIT Bombay, and as a General Manager at Grandeur International. Subu's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer.