Built from the inside of the enterprise.
WhyMinds is not led by technologists who wandered into risk and compliance. It is led by practitioners who have run engineering, risk and security inside regulated institutions — and who know what a regulator expects to see, because they have sat across the examination table.
Shashank Saxena
Founder & CEO · WhyMinds AI / RegAhead
Shashank brings over two decades of technology leadership across global financial institutions — Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, SMFG and IDFC First Bank — spanning Silicon Valley, Wall Street, London, Singapore and Mumbai, in organisation-wide engineering and architecture leadership roles. He serves on the board of a leading NBFC and a growing agri-eCommerce company, and on advisory councils for state governments and academia on FinTech and AI. He founded WhyMinds AI after seeing that the most consequential risk in regulated financial services — third-party and outsourcing compliance — was being managed with tools fundamentally inadequate for the regulatory environment now emerging.
Cdr. Vinayak Srimal
Co-founder · Chief Operations & Risk Officer
Vinayak leads Operations, Risk and Information Security for WhyMinds AI and RegAhead. A veteran of the Indian Navy, he served for over two decades leading IT governance and information security — securing premier defence and critical-infrastructure platforms and collaborating with ISRO and French and Russian defence manufacturers. Before WhyMinds, he was a senior leader in Enterprise Risk Management and Information Security at a Tier 1 private bank.