Kai MBA
About me

Hi, I’m Kai. I got in from the most crowded lane there is.

I applied to business school as an Indian male IT professional. I was admitted to INSEAD, LBS, HEC Paris, Cambridge, Oxford and IMD, and I chose INSEAD. My journey ran through startups in Bangalore, AI in Tokyo, and now London, where I lead AI at a Series A startup.

After I made a video about my GMAT prep and getting into INSEAD, hundreds of people started writing to me every month with the same questions. I cannot answer everyone one to one, and I will not charge what consultants charge. So I packaged everything I know, and I built a clone of me to deliver it. That is this site.

Off the clock: Olympic recurve archery, and all forty-seven Japanese prefectures.

Kai, seated, in black and white
How I got here
  1. 2025 to now
    Head of AI, a Series A startup in London
    Built the AI and engineering teams from scratch and the multi-agent platform behind the product.
  2. 2024
    MBA, INSEAD, France and Singapore
    AI strategy and digital transformation, with AI ethics research under Prof. Theodoros Evgeniou.
  3. 2022 to 2024
    AI Lead, Computer Vision, Match Group
    Tinder and Hinge, across Japan, South Korea and the USA.
  4. 2020 to 2022
    Senior AI Engineer, Trust and Safety, Match Group
    Content moderation systems for tens of millions of users.
  5. 2019 to 2020
    AI Engineer, Self-Driving, Ascent Robotics, Tokyo
    Computer vision for LiDAR and camera fusion.
  6. 2018
    AI Engineer, Computer Vision, Bangalore
    Retail computer vision for P&G across India and Singapore.