Hemanth Sheelvant plays the role of CEO of business Bosch Digital Twin Industries, a business of grow GmbH (A Bosch Company). Bosch Digital Twin Industries has business and sales centres across North America, Africa, Germany (EU), Middle East, India and Singapore (ASEAN) and Product and Engineering centres in Germany and India. Hemanth is currently responsible for scaling the business of Digital Twin – Integrated Asset Performance Management building hybrid platform (cloud+edge) for heavy machinery assets to enable the customer to manage their business critical assets which directly contribute to their revenues and efficiency. He also comes with an experience setting up the SaaS business for an AI based Personalization platform – iero which offers Personalized recommendations to customers in Retail, Mobility and Hospitality domains, powered by machine learning platform.
Before this, Hemanth was driving for Corporate Innovation with startups as Director and Innovation Hub Leader for India for the global GROW GmbH venture building platform by funding internal startups and additionally heads the Open Bosch DNA India startup alliance initiative as a Program Director, with responsibility towards driving innovation through engagement with external startups for co-innovation and GTM partnerships.
During the 20+ years experience in Bosch, Hemanth has taken up several techno-managerial roles starting from software to system design including a global product management role for Global OEMs, followed by a focus on strategy and business in the role of Executive Assistant to the President of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions. Hemanth has an Executive MBA from University 18 Business School and a Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business from Emeritus Institute of Management, Singapore.
Hemanth is interested in music, trekking and loves to play tennis. On the personal front, Hemanth is married to Deepthy and is blessed with daughter Tanishka and son Anvith.