Kiran Patel

About Kiran Patel

Kiran Patel is Chief Technology Officer, WGSN Group at WGSN. Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States.

Most of my career has centered on the same problem in different forms: organizations whose structure, cost base, and technology have fallen behind their ambitions, and what it takes to rebuild them to grow. As Chief Technology Officer of WGSN Group, I hold group-wide accountability across WGSN, IWSR, Coloro, and WGSN Start — product, engineering, data, AI/ML, security, and infrastructure for a predictive intelligence business serving thousands of enterprise customers. • Doubled digital business growth in under two years by modernizing the core platform and differentiating the product line with AI. • Took the estate from monolith to microservices: 25% lower infrastructure cost, 10x faster deployment, better availability and resilience. • Built the AI/ML forecasting platform — computer vision, NLP, LLM-based insight generation — turning proprietary data and analyst expertise into a moat competitors can't replicate. • Led the technology workstream and investor narrative through WGSN's ~$1B private equity transaction, and the value-creation agenda that followed. Earlier, at Shutterstock, I scaled the platform behind a $170M enterprise business and ran diligence and integration across multiple acquisitions. A founder's ownership mindset, with the discipline to operate at enterprise scale.

Skills

• LAMP
• PHP
• MySQL

Additional experience

• Technology Executive Council Member

  CNBC Technology Executive Council

  Started June 2025

Education

• Bachelor's of computer engineering, University of Mumbai