Jai Girdhar

Executive summary

Jai is a Director in BDO’s Digital team in Melbourne, specialising in data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). He is a delivery-focused professional with more than a decade of experience helping organisations invest practically in AI and data to achieve strategic business outcomes and foster innovation. His expertise spans both public and private sectors across the Asia-Pacific region.

Jai specialises in designing and delivering high-impact, proof-of-value programmes, driving ethical and scalable adoption of emerging technologies. He is passionate about helping organisations build sustainable, reliable practices that support the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.

Expertise

• Data and AI strategy development for medium-to-large organisations
• AI engineering, automation and implementation services
• Data engineering and modern data platform implementation services
• Unified data and AI platform implementation services
• Advanced analytics, machine learning and AI engineering solutions for regulated industries
• Business intelligence and data analytics for evidence-based decision-making in organisations
• Data, AI and information governance advisory

Experience

• Financial services - unified data and AI platform development for board reporting and investment management
• State government - on-time contract performance management of public transport using data science and machine learning
• Federal government - AI strategy development for a transport safety regulator
• Higher education - data and AI privacy and governance management solutions analysis
• Local government - workforce analytics and AI platform development using modern evidence-based techniques
• Not-For-Profit - data strategy, analytics and governance development for aged care compliance management
• State government - proof of value in using modern data analytics platforms for evidence-based decision-making in energy and mining regulation
• Federal government - data and analytics operating model development for a transport safety regulator
• Financial services - post-merger data standard development for a superannuation services provider.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Science, Information Technology, Certification in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
• Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Specialisation in Information Security
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 Foundation Certified