Growth-Stage Technology CEO · Former CPO · Executive Speaker
AI operating models for the decisions that matter.
Shikhin speaks with CEOs, boards, investors and technology leaders about accountable AI, changing SaaS economics and the operating choices required to turn product innovation into measurable growth.
Signature topics
Each session combines a clear point of view with operating evidence and decisions an executive audience can apply.
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Where AI authority must end and human ownership must begin
A practical framework for deciding what AI may observe, recommend, decide and execute—and for establishing the ownership, traceability and revocation required before autonomy grows.
CEOs · Boards · AI leaders · Risk and governance forums
02
Rewriting SaaS economics for AI-enabled customers
What happens when customers increase output with fewer software users? A grounded discussion of value metrics, packaging, product architecture and margin as AI separates revenue from seats.
SaaS CEOs · Investors · Product and finance leaders
03
Connecting AI investment to product, GTM and capital allocation
How growth-stage leadership teams move beyond isolated experiments by linking AI priorities to customer adoption, revenue execution, decision ownership and measurable enterprise value.
CEO forums · VC and PE portfolios · Transformation leaders
Flagship idea
An agent can complete a task without becoming an actor the organization can answer for. The accountability chain makes every consequential action traceable to explicit human ownership.
Read the full frameworkRecent speaking
In 2026, Shikhin spoke in the main plenary at the AIFOD Bangkok Summit on AI’s emerging “decision economy.” He also co-chaired AIFOD Geneva’s Independent Review Board session on autonomous agents and accountability.
About Shikhin
Shikhin (Shaun) Agarwal is a growth-stage technology CEO and former CPO with more than 25 years building AI, SaaS and data-enabled businesses. He has held founder/CEO, CPO, full-P&L and executive leadership roles across healthcare, enterprise software, fintech, ecommerce and digital media.
He led product strategy and P&L for a roughly $40M ARR ecommerce-personalization platform and a roughly $50M ARR social-advertising and analytics business at venture-backed companies. At Kinetic Social, he led a business including $20M in product revenue growth including 2 platform acquisitions.
More recently, Shikhin led AI-enabled product and go-to-market transformations for a $3B travel technology company, a PE-backed professional-services firm and a pre-Series A healthcare platform. He also created a reusable AI product-strategy workflow for a top-tier consulting firm that reduced strategy-development time and rework by 25%.
His work spans enterprise growth, product and platform strategy, new-venture launches, pricing and business-model design, organizational leadership, M&A and board communication. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a technology degree from IIT Bombay.
For event organizers
Shikhin is available for selected keynotes, moderated panels, executive roundtables, board and portfolio sessions, and podcasts in the United States and internationally.
Washington, DC