Kriti Sharma is an AI technologist, business executive and humanitarian, the founder of AI for Good UK, which works to make artificial intelligence tools more ethical and equitable. Kriti's initiatives include Pegg, an accounting chatbot, and rAInbow, a platform to support survivors of domestic violence.
Kriti started her career at Barclays, where she initially developed e-commerce platforms such as the Pingit mobile payments app. Pingit won the App Store Best of 2012 award. She was later appointed the Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics at Barclays Africa, where she led a team of data scientists and created real-time analytics products. Her group focused on using machine learning to make user engagement with financial services intelligent and personalised. In February 2016, Sharma joined the UK technology firm Sage, where she led mobile products for more than 6 million businesses globally. From November 2019, she was Vice President, Product at GfK, a KKR portfolio company and currently works as Chief Product Officer (legal tech) at Thomson Reuters.
She holds a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Rajasthan, India, and a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews, UK. At the age of 21, Sharma was elected as a Rajiv Gandhi Science Fellow for her work in energy optimisation and its applications in astrophysics, material science, polymer and bioinformatics research. In 2010, Google awarded her the Google India Women in Engineering Award for excellence in computer science and demonstrated leadership in promoting diversity. She has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 Europe: Technology list, and appointed as a United Nations Young Leader. In 2018, she was appointed as an advisor to the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.