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About Us

Founded in 2017, Corridor Platforms is a next-gen Decision Management Platform built by industry veterans to leapfrog institutions of all sizes to real-time decisioning capabilities and advanced analytics, needed to compete and win in the digital era. It has been purposefully built, with years of learnings, to quickly provide the technical capabilities needed to transform decisioning to best in class.

Our Leadership

Manish Gupta, CEO

Manish Gupta

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CEO

Manish Gupta is the CEO of Corridor Platforms and is a seasoned credit professional having worked across almost all facets of the lending industry over 24 years, from running risk management globally for commercial and consumer lending through multiple credit cycles to innovating and designing new credit products and managing large P&Ls as a General Manager. He launched Corridor Platforms with a team of highly-seasoned risk professionals to develop the next stage of Digital Decisioning capabilities that allow banks to innovate using cutting-edge AI & big data technologies without compromising governance as well as optimizing decisions in real-time in response to changing customer and competitive environments.
Manish Gupta, CEO

Jean-Paul Ndong

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Founder - Head of Product and Data Science

Jean-Paul Ndong is a Risk management executive with over 20 years of experience across geographies (US and UK) products (loans, credit cards, charge cards, P2P Lending), and customer segments (consumers and small businesses). He’s spent 13 years at American Express where he held multiple roles including heading the UK Risk management team and running the US Underwriting function. His core competencies include designing and building risk management infrastructure, credit risk rating, credit underwriting, asset quality review, portfolio management, enterprise risk management, and new product development.
Manish Gupta, CEO

Aditya Khandekar

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Chief Revenue Officer

Aditya is a Technology and Analytics leader with 20+ years of experience spanning multiple product firms, providing marketing, fraud & risk analytics platforms for banks, retailers & healthcare. He started his career at Talisma and held leadership roles in cloud-delivered call centers and knowledge management solutions. He also built ground-up analytics businesses at Fiserv (as GM of Analytics Advisory Services) and Zafin (relationship & loyalty platforms) and Scienaptic as its Chief Analytics Officer. Aditya’s primary charter at Corridor is to build and scale the India delivery model for R&D and client delivery teams, a critical asset for the success of Corridor Platforms. He has a strong product perspective having built decision science-based big data products at Fiserv, Zafin, and Scienaptic.
Manish Gupta, CEO

Abdeali Kothari

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Head of Engineering

Abdeali (or just “Ali”) is the Head of Engineering at Corridor Platforms. Ali brings strong analytical thinking and technical skills in Hadoop/Spark & Python stack having solved large-scale compute problems for FI’s like American Express & GE in the past. He is responsible for the development of major product capabilities and acts as the bridge between Product Management and Product Development. Ali holds a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In his downtime, you will usually find him fixing phones, laptops, and TVs for friends and family. In between these essentials, somehow he also finds time to craft quality code and contribute to open-source projects, and get lost in his thoughts.
Manish Gupta, CEO

Aniket Agrawal

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Chief People's Officer

Aniket, who has been with Corridor since its inception, serves as the Chief People's Officer while also contributing significantly to tech development. Over the years, his contributions have been instrumental in building our team to critical mass and making substantial technical contributions to product architecture, UI development, and UX design. Aniket has also mentored young developers in full-stack development. In addition to his senior tech role, he leads our human talent development initiatives and manages our India operations. Aniket works closely with the leadership team to shape and implement strategies that drive the organization's success.

Board of Directors

Ash Gupta, Board Member

Ash Gupta

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Chairman, Corridor Platform

Ash Gupta is the Chairman of Corridor Platforms and co-founded the company in 2017. He brings 40+ years of experience as a world-leading expert on Consumer and Small Business Credit. He has been Pioneer in defining and growing credit products globally and promoting fundamental innovation in Payments and E-commerce through Big Data and Machine Learning. He has driven industry-wide innovation in credit/fraud risk, marketing, and customer experience, and successfully transitioned American Express from traditional analytics to Big Data, Machine Learning, and AI.
Ash Gupta, Board Member

Rohit Kapoor

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Board Member, CEO EXL Service

Mr. Kapoor co-founded EXL in April 1999 and has served as the Vice-Chairman and CEO since 2012. Before his tenure as CEO, he held various roles in EXL including CFO, President, and COO. A forward-thinking leader with expertise in identifying industry and market trends, Mr. Kapoor has a proven ability to see what’s next. By dramatically scaling EXL’s investment in areas such as advanced automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence Mr. Kapoor has transformed EXL into a strategic digital transformation partner. His prescient strategic decisions have positioned EXL for explosive growth employing over 32,600 professionals serving clients across five continents. Mr. Kapoor is the Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (“NASSCOM”) BPM Council. He also serves on the Board of the America India Foundation (AIF), a non-profit organization.
Ash Gupta, Board Member

Til Schuermann

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Partner and Co-Head of OliverWyman’s Risk & Public Policy Practice in the Americas

He advises private and public sector clients on stress testing, capital planning, enterprise-wide risk management, model risk management, and corporate governance including board oversight. A Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and Research Fellow at the Wharton School who has taught at Columbia University, Til has participated in the stress testing and assessment of banking systems across Europe, even assisting the IMF and the UN in global projects. He has numerous publications in both academic and practitioner journals, is on the FRM exam committee for GARP, a member of the advisory boards of the NYU Courant Institute Mathematical Finance program and NYU Stern School’s Volatility Risk Institute, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Financial Advisory Roundtable.

Our Team

Aniket Agrawal, CPO

Xin Yang

Xin is a Data Scientist at Corridor Platforms. She combines business risk knowledge with strong modeling skills in Python stack. She leverages her prior work experience with Fintech & Data Providers to develop risk models and policies with clients. She works closely with Corridor clients for implementations.

She graduated from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with an M.S. in statistics. Outside of learning big data technologies, she enjoys kayaking and ice skating, and wishes to own a little organic farm in Florida – maybe use her data science skills to create super crops?

Xin Yang

Data Scientist

Aniket Agrawal, CPO

Chad Schilling

Chad joins Corridor Platforms bringing over 28 years of consulting with financial institutions large and small. His career has taken him into every aspect of the lending process, from acquisition, originations, underwriting, servicing, risk, compliance, and secondary. He brings an uncanny ability to bridge solutions to help solve challenges in todays everchanging financial industry. When not working, Chad enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters, and two Great Danes, hanging out at the beach. He is also an avid volleyball player and is currently working on his instrument rating for his private pilot license!

Chad Schilling

VP Sales

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Shivam Verma

Shivam is a Big Data Engineer at Corridor Platforms. He likes to work at the intersection of big data (Spark, Hadoop), and ML to solve real business challenges and loves building products!

He holds a B. Tech degree from IIT Delhi in Computer Science and Engineering. He is passionate about nature photography and loves playing badminton and cricket. He is a foodie for Pani Puri and once ate 55 of them in a competition (and won :))

Shivam Verma

Sr. Big Data Engineer

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Bjoern Nordmann

Bjoern has joined Corridor as the VP of Sales. Bjoern has spent the last 29 years architecting and executing growth-driven negotiations at the commercial level for SaaS companies, IT and Engineering outsourcing providers. He has held multiple Sales leadership and Account Director positions including Head of Sales for multiple SaaS companies. During his time in those roles, he focused on multiple verticals including the Financial Industry and Consumer Product Goods.

Bjoern Nordmann

VP Sales

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Vishnu Suman

Vishnu is a Big Data Engineer at Corridor Platforms. He is very passionate about learning new skills and contributes heavily in sprints for new product capabilities on the platform. Vishnu codes primarily on Python, Pyspark, Scala, Spark, Java, and Hive. He holds a BTech degree from SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Cochin, in Computer Science and Engineering. Vishnu is a foodie and leaves no opportunity to travel back to his hometown to enjoy homemade food. He enjoys playing Cricket and Badminton. He is the energy bunny of the team which is infectious to all!

Vishnu Suman

Sr. Big Data Engineer

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Aditya Soni

Aditya is a big data engineer at Corridor Platforms. He has specialized in building big data-based ML pipelines for optimizing market campaigns, and developing user personas from the digital footprint and finds passion in building products powered by data that solve real-world challenges.

Well, he has found the right place in Corridor Platforms! Aditya graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2017 with a dual degree in electronics and electrical communication. In his free time, he likes reading books on business and philosophy and sometimes plays guitar. He loves biking - especially long solo rides.

Aditya Soni

Sr. Big Data Engineer

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Goutam Gopal Desai

Goutam likes to jump into the deep end of both front-end and back-end with skills in Angular and NodeJS. He has worked in innovative startups building tech in the digital logistics and supply chain. This cross-vertical skill gives him valuable perspective at Corridor. He is crazy about bikes and cars and interested in visiting new places and socializing with friends.

Goutam Gopal Desai

UI Engineer

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Reena Shekar

Reena is a no-nonsense senior QA profile at Corridor. She has cut her teeth testing enterprise-grade web applications and has a wealth of experience setting up automation frameworks to reduce testing time while ensuring high quality. Highly inquisitive in nature, she always reverts to first principles in finding novel testing scenarios, a great skill to have on board. She is a strong foodie and loves testing new variants of cooking styles in her native cuisine.

Reena Shekar

QA Tester

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John Mangan

John is a strategic business development executive with over 20 years in the banking and financial services industry, John brings experience in the areas of Intelligent Automation / RPA and AI, payments, digital marketing, data enhancement/analytics, loyalty/CX and customer relationship management.
At Corridor Platforms, he is championing AI-driven decision workflow governance, a mission that aligns with his expertise in intelligent automation, which was honed during his tenure as Director of Intelligent Automation at Protiviti and leading the Banking and Insurance vertical at UiPath. Committed to driving growth and efficiency, he helps clients deliver innovative and scalable solutions for AI-driven integration and automation across the enterprise.

John Mangan

VP Sales

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Rajneesh Jha

Rajneesh is a Data Scientist at Corridor Platforms, working on the core platform and supporting client engagements. He has a strong analytical mindset honed from working in data-driven consulting, backed by a sharp inquisitive mind. He is passionate about emerging AI trends and coding ML. He loves reading about Indian mythology (and educating others!), hiking, playing outdoor sports, and spreading his infectious high energy all around.

Rajneesh Jha

Sr. Data Scientist

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Sakshi Mishra

Sakshi has joined Corridor as the Chief of Staff. She brings a unique skill set of a deep technical background with creative writing and a marketing mindset. From technical manuals to haikus about her morning coffee, she loves to write it all! Her work has been recognized by notable publications such as Harper Broadcast, Written Circle, and The New Indian Express. She is also well-versed in content marketing, SEO, digital marketing, and design thinking. Sakshi holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science. When she’s not busy reading and shredding guitar solos, she is constantly striving for a higher self!

Sakshi Mishra

Chief of Staff

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Ashutosh Paul

Ashutosh is a passionate front-end developer with a knack for handling databases. He finds inspiration in new technologies and their impact on society, always striving to contribute to something huge. He is a practical and logical thinker, always eager to learn new tech tools and expand his knowledge. Ashutosh is committed to making a positive impact on the world and giving back to society. Think of him as your friendly and tech-savvy neighbor!

Ashutosh Paul

UI Engineer

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Satarupa Bhattacharya

Satarupa has joined the Corridor team as an Automation Engineer. With a B.Tech in Information Technology, she’s well-equipped to develop and implement robust testing frameworks for our platform.
Satarupa’s eye for detail is unparalleled, allowing her to quickly spot any glitches or issues that may arise in the platform. However, when she’s not busy putting our platform to the test, you can find her dancing to classical music and sipping a cup of coffee in peace.
She is an extrovert and enjoys connecting with others.

Satarupa Bhattacharya

Automation Engineer

Aniket Agrawal, CPO

Ashwin A Nayar

Ashwin has joined Corridor Platforms as a Full-Stack Developer. He is fueled by curiosity and excels in challenging environments with steep learning curves. Besides being a strong advocate for open source, he enjoys exploring and understanding various tools and their inner workings. Ashwin holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
During his free time, he finds joy in listening to music, playing badminton, and reading non-fiction books. Being a dedicated enthusiast of IoT and robotics, he spends his spare time building tools and autonomous bots from scratch.

Ashwin A Nayar

Full-Stack Developer

Aniket Agrawal, CPO

Hareesh S

Hareesh has joined Corridor Platforms as a Sr. Software Test Engineer. He loves tackling complex challenges in quality engineering with scalable and modular solutions. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring new places, spending time with loved ones, and making memories with friends and family!

Hareesh S

Sr. Software Test Engineer

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Ashish Mohite

Ashish has joined Corridor as a dynamic full-stack developer known for his expertise in crafting creative solutions. With a solid foundation in both front-end and back-end development, Ashish excels in building seamless user experiences and scalable systems. When he's not coding, you can find Ashish strumming his guitar, hitting the gym for a workout, or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen!

Ashish Mohite

Full-Stack Developer

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Om Prakash

Om has joined Corridor as a full-stack developer. He is a versatile problem solver, known for his knack for simplifying complex challenges. Whether it's coding or gaming, he's all about finding elegant solutions! Outside of work, you'll find him showcasing his skills on the foosball table or immersed in virtual worlds.

Om Prakash

Full-Stack Developer

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Pulkit Chauhan

Pulkit has joined Corridor as a full stack developer. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, he has previously made significant contributions to production systems and SDKs, demonstrating his ability to handle complex projects. As a passionate problem-solver, Pulkit's dedication and skills have earned him an Expert title on Codeforces with a 1693 rating!

Pulkit Chauhan

Full-Stack Developer

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Rinkle Sebastian

Rinkle has joined Corridor as an Engagement Manger and is an alumnus of IIT Madras with a dual degree in data science. She has a diverse background, spanning data science, consulting, product and leadership roles.

Rinkle Sebastian

Engagement Manager

Partners & Investors

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​Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 5,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC].

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