Our Team

The people behind YUNIK AI Labs.

YUNIK AI Labs is led by founder and CEO Darshit Kasliwal, with a strategy and engineering team and strategic advisors and mentors from Harvard Business School. Together we build sovereign, domain-specialized enterprise AI around each client's own data, knowledge and processes.

On this page: Darshit Kasliwal · Ann Boothello · Nilay Khemka · Prof. V.G. Narayanan · Prof. Dennis Campbell

Founder

Darshit Kasliwal, Founder & CEO

Every enterprise deserves its own Sovereign AI Lab.
Co-created with you, grounded in your data and governed by your rules.

Darshit KasliwalFounder & CEO | YUNIK AI LabsHarvard Business School Alum · Stanford Seed Transformation ProgramLinkedIn

Darshit Kasliwal is the founder and CEO of YUNIK AI Labs. He brings over 25 years spanning enterprise technology, business strategy and innovation, and now leads YUNIK in building sovereign AI labs that combine deep domain expertise with advanced AI engineering.

His focus is making enterprise intelligence accessible, governed, cost-efficient and sustainable: AI that runs inside the enterprise's own perimeter, is grounded in its own data and processes, and is tied to measurable business value. At YUNIK he leads the company's direction across the YUNIK Agentic Operating System, Agentnomics, Yunik Foundry and domain-specialized models.

Team

Strategy and engineering.

The YUNIK team shapes AI strategy with business leaders and engineers the models and agents that deliver it.

Ann Boothello

Chief Strategy OfficerYUNIK AI LabsSingularity University · MIT Sloan: Artificial Intelligence, Implications for Business Strategy

Ann advises business leaders on business strategy, AI adoption, and organisational transformation, helping enterprises translate emerging technologies into strategic opportunities and measurable business value. Drawing on her experience across business development, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurial ecosystems, she works with executives to shape forward-looking strategies, identify new avenues for growth, and develop roadmaps that align technological innovation with business priorities.

Nilay Khemka

AI, ML and GenAI EngineerYUNIK AI LabsIIT Kharagpur

Nilay works on AI, machine learning and generative AI engineering at YUNIK AI Labs.

Strategic Advisors & Mentors

Advised by Harvard Business School faculty.

YUNIK's approach to measuring and governing enterprise AI draws on management-control, strategy and operating-model research, with guidance from Harvard Business School faculty.

Professor V.G. Narayanan

Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School

YUNIK AI Labs is bringing a thoughtful business perspective to enterprise AI, combining its focus on Agentnomics with governance and enterprise control. It is helping frame AI adoption around costs, benefits and operational implications, with an emphasis on measurable business value.

Professor Dennis Campbell

Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School

YUNIK AI Labs is bringing specialized domain models and a sovereign approach to enterprise AI, keeping data, knowledge and controls inside the enterprise. Through Agentnomics, it is tying every AI investment to its cost, its return and the people who stay accountable for it.

How the team works

People lead. Agents accelerate.

Enterprise experience guides the work and AI agents support execution. People stay accountable for decisions and outcomes.

Understand

People define business goals, domain context and constraints. Agents help organize information and surface questions.

Build and validate

People guide architecture and integration. Agents assist with implementation and checks, under human review.

Govern and improve

People keep ownership and approval. Agents operate within defined permissions and support ongoing improvement.

Recognitions

Member of the NVIDIA Inception program

DPIIT Recognised Startup
Startup India, Government of India · No. DIPP282999

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