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Gaurav Malhotra

Value Consultant - Associate Partner

He's spent 25+ years building and leading enterprise platforms. From core software and data through to AI/ML, GenAI, and the knowledge graph and neuro-symbolic AI layer that makes them explainable at scale, architected across AWS, GCP and OCI. Now with Valliance, he brings the same leadership to clients who need AI that reasons, explains, and scales with trust.

At Oracle, Gaurav co-founded the Health Insurance Platform, achieving 100% automated claims processing at a throughput of 270,000 claims per hour on OCI. He went on to lead Nike's iconic Data/AI/GenAI Governance Platform, modernising the data and AI/ML core, architecting the new GenAI layer, and embedding AI governance across Bedrock and Databricks for ~10,000 engineers. This result in a measured impact of €350M+ in annual EBIT.

He’s led H&M's CDAO GenAI modernisation on Google Cloud, and shaped the next-generation neuro-symbolic graph platform for explainable, compliant AI for Hartford's. This leading knowledge graph–driven reasoning platform supports fraud detection and investigation, as well as underwriting within the insurance domain.

As founder of Gonnect / HyperGraphMind, he has pioneered agentic, neuro-symbolic architectures that unite LLMs, knowledge graphs, and ontology-based reasoning.

His guiding conviction, is that any AI that cannot prove or clearly justify its conclusions is just sophisticated guessing. His other achievements also include:


  • Leading the launch of AIR Imagination on Air Max Day 2025, Nike's flagship consumer GenAI design platform, a text-to-image creation tool that generated over 1.5 million community designs in its first week

  • Led the design of a global ePayments platform at Ingenico processing approximately 21 billion transactions annually across real-time and cross-business integrations

  • Led H&M's CDAO GenAI modernisation on Google Cloud with Vertex AI, partnering with Google and Kong to deliver enterprise-scale adoption

  • Led the strategy for The Hartford's next-generation neuro-symbolic graph platform, enabling explainable, auditable AI across enterprise decision systems

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