Pradeep Aradhya

CEO & Investor at Novus Laurus LLC

Member since September 2019

Motion Pictures and Film

Education: B.E Civil Engg. UVCE - Ph.D. Structural Dynamics NC State, M.Sc Aerospace Engg. Indian Institute of Science
Boston, MA, USA

Biography

Pradeep is a digital transformation strategist, impact investor, and parallel entrepreneur. As a futurist and change agent, Pradeep combines technology, media and culture to realize new visions for sustained revenue growth in large companies poised for transformation.

Pradeep is also a film maker, blogger and artist.

Specialties:
Digital Transformation, Revenue Growth, Scaling, Operations.
Concept and consensus building, Innovation of product and technology strategies, Technical architecture, development, delivery.
Development of business opportunity, Entrepreneurial Initiatives and Startups.

Investment Interests: digital tech, film, food, fashion

Mentor to Entrepreneurs: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2013/04/03/sandbox-helps-entrepreneurs-reinvent-themselves/AyBtSsc0MfJ5IONSgetf8N/story.html

Film Producer: http://www.imdb.me/pradeeparadhya

Blogger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeeparadhya/detail/recent-activity/posts/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/pradeep-aradhya-281

Author: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pradeep+aradhya&ref=nb_sb_noss

Passion

Pradeep is a philanthropist in the education, diversity and culture space. Pradeep is also a film maker, blogger and artist.

As a Board member at the Starbucks Women Impact Network, an Advisory Board Member at the Sasaki Foundation, and a regular sponsor of the New England Museum Association, Pradeep is working toward creating sustainable and diverse cultures.

Best Story

Realizing that business is not merely about monetary success and that the different levers that move society are in order of priority - entertainment, education, investment, diversity, technology and connection. This made me venture down the path of changing culture and educating via entertainment and investing in diversity, gender-equity and technology.

Origin Story

Pradeep has changed career direction at every step. This leads to steep learning curves but has enabled him to gather an eclectic skill set - Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, Masters in Aerospace Engineering, Ph. D in structural dynamics. His first job was in software engineering; second job in consulting; third job in advertising; founding own company, Novus Laurus, Investing in startups such as Innovation Women; producing movies; speaking on diversity and entrepreneurship; and writing children's books.

Example Talks

Speaking to The Boston Club about Digital Transformation

Pradeep was invited to speak to the prestigious Boston Club whose members wanted to understand key concepts about Digital Transformation. In this talk/discussion mediated by Irina Agoulnik, Pradeep talks about key digital technologies, strategies and pitfalls for executive staff and boards of companies - https://novuslaurus.com/stories/bnt103-boston-new-technology-startup-expert-interview-pradeep-aradhya/

Featured Speaker at Inclusive Innovation Boston

Innovation is best accomplished when ideas come from multiple perspectives. Pradeep was a featured speaker where he discussed just how diverse perspectives lead to new and innovative ideas and processes at the Inclusive Innovation Boston conference. https://inclusiveinnovationbos.com/

Interview with Boston New Technology - Advice for Entrepreneurs

In this brief interview by BNT, Pradeep speaks about his idea of a "Minimum Viable Business" as opposed to just an "MVP"! He also speaks about what the 3 main qualities for entrepreneurs should be if they would like investment or to choose partners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuyueLZLPM

Male Allies panel with Innovation Women at INBOUND

In the struggle to achieve gender equity in business and other walks of life men who understand the what why and how are important stakeholders! I was homored to be counted amond them on this panel - Male Allies for Gender Diversity

https://www.facebook.com/innovationwomen/videos/1827404634047811/

Personalizable Notification Platform and Content System for eCommerce

Large eCommerce companies need personalizable customer communication frameworks to inform customers of order acceptance, shipping confirmation, wishlist fulfillment etc. No solution exists out of the box. This solution specified and developed by Pradeep's company, Novus Laurus, details a multi-user, flexible platform that allows the creation of dedicated communication email templates along with integration to multiple brands and testing platforms. This talk was originally given at DrupalCon.

https://drupal.tv/external-video/2016-05-12/drupalcon-new-orleans-2016-dynamic-self-service-notification-platform

Digital Strategy For Museums

What should museums understand about customers and do with digital technology to maximise visitor and donor interest.

In this talk, Pradeep helps museums understand the intersection between visitor intent and museum information strategy along with key digital concepts like responsive design for mobile, SEO, and analytics based insight to drive greater engagement.

https://nemanet.org/conference-events/lunch-nema/2016/connecting-your-collections/

Topics/Keywords

digital marketing using digital media strategically for business success digital transformation artificial intelligence internet of things iot blockchain film production movie startups lean startup food script script development investing impact investing sales performance sales independent film filmmaking books ebooks using childrens books to inspire conversation networking business strategy business scale up innovation culture gender culture technology museums customer experience customer relations male ally nonprofits nonprofit fundraising education marketing with ai ai readiness ai for business machine learning natural language processing ai and analytics conversational marketing intelligent assistance technologies stem education stem education and fostering future innovators women in engineering women in stem stem education engineering education women entrepreneurship entrepreneurship entrepreneurial thinking and repositioning your brand

Featured Video

I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions

Best Story

Realizing that business is not merely about monetary success and that the different levers that move society are in order of priority - entertainment, education, investment, diversity, technology and connection. This made me venture down the path of changing culture and educating via entertainment and investing in diversity, gender-equity and technology.

Origin Story

Pradeep has changed career direction at every step. This leads to steep learning curves but has enabled him to gather an eclectic skill set - Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, Masters in Aerospace Engineering, Ph. D in structural dynamics. His first job was in software engineering; second job in consulting; third job in advertising; founding own company, Novus Laurus, Investing in startups such as Innovation Women; producing movies; speaking on diversity and entrepreneurship; and writing children's books.

I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions

Example Talks

Speaking to The Boston Club about Digital Transformation

Pradeep was invited to speak to the prestigious Boston Club whose members wanted to understand key concepts about Digital Transformation. In this talk/discussion mediated by Irina Agoulnik, Pradeep talks about key digital technologies, strategies and pitfalls for executive staff and boards of companies - https://novuslaurus.com/stories/bnt103-boston-new-technology-startup-expert-interview-pradeep-aradhya/

Featured Speaker at Inclusive Innovation Boston

Innovation is best accomplished when ideas come from multiple perspectives. Pradeep was a featured speaker where he discussed just how diverse perspectives lead to new and innovative ideas and processes at the Inclusive Innovation Boston conference. https://inclusiveinnovationbos.com/

Interview with Boston New Technology - Advice for Entrepreneurs

In this brief interview by BNT, Pradeep speaks about his idea of a "Minimum Viable Business" as opposed to just an "MVP"! He also speaks about what the 3 main qualities for entrepreneurs should be if they would like investment or to choose partners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuyueLZLPM

Male Allies panel with Innovation Women at INBOUND

In the struggle to achieve gender equity in business and other walks of life men who understand the what why and how are important stakeholders! I was homored to be counted amond them on this panel - Male Allies for Gender Diversity

https://www.facebook.com/innovationwomen/videos/1827404634047811/

Personalizable Notification Platform and Content System for eCommerce

Large eCommerce companies need personalizable customer communication frameworks to inform customers of order acceptance, shipping confirmation, wishlist fulfillment etc. No solution exists out of the box. This solution specified and developed by Pradeep's company, Novus Laurus, details a multi-user, flexible platform that allows the creation of dedicated communication email templates along with integration to multiple brands and testing platforms. This talk was originally given at DrupalCon.

https://drupal.tv/external-video/2016-05-12/drupalcon-new-orleans-2016-dynamic-self-service-notification-platform

Digital Strategy For Museums

What should museums understand about customers and do with digital technology to maximise visitor and donor interest.

In this talk, Pradeep helps museums understand the intersection between visitor intent and museum information strategy along with key digital concepts like responsive design for mobile, SEO, and analytics based insight to drive greater engagement.

https://nemanet.org/conference-events/lunch-nema/2016/connecting-your-collections/

Topics/Keywords

digital marketing using digital media strategically for business success digital transformation artificial intelligence internet of things iot blockchain film production movie startups lean startup food script script development investing impact investing sales performance sales independent film filmmaking books ebooks using childrens books to inspire conversation networking business strategy business scale up innovation culture gender culture technology museums customer experience customer relations male ally nonprofits nonprofit fundraising education marketing with ai ai readiness ai for business machine learning natural language processing ai and analytics conversational marketing intelligent assistance technologies stem education stem education and fostering future innovators women in engineering women in stem stem education engineering education women entrepreneurship entrepreneurship entrepreneurial thinking and repositioning your brand