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Meet the Team

Experienced leaders and advisors at Skeptics.ai helping shape the future of trusted AI-powered assurance, audit, and compliance.

  • Neha Agarwal

    Neha AgarwalCo-Founder & CEO

    Neha is a veteran audit executive and the founding force behind Skeptics.ai. A dual-certified CPA and CA with more than three decades of experience in internal audit, SOX, risk management and corporate governance, she previously served as the Vice President of Internal Audit at Freshworks, establishing its global SOX and audit functions from scratch from pre-IPO through maturity. Throughout her career, Neha has approached risk and mitigation with the rigorous professional skepticism that defines the industry's best practitioners. Today, she is leveraging that exact mindset—combined with modern Agentic AI—to automate manual workflows and pioneer real-time compliance automation for enterprises worldwide.

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  • Sunil Badala

    Sunil BadalaC0-Founder and CTO

    Sunil s a technology founder, CTO, and systems architect specialized in building high-concurrency distributed systems and orchestrating multi-LLM, multi-agent AI platforms. He bridges the gap between deep technical engineering and business monetization, design-engineering products that translate complex AI research into reliable, production-grade enterprise solutions.

    His architecture work spans the evolution of real-time data pipelines, programmatic monetization, and audience data platforms (DMPs) across AdTech, OTT ecosystems, and scaled e-learning networks like TopperLearning.

    Currently, Sunil is focused on solving the exact challenges that traditional tech faces when adopting AI: handling the integration of multiple, domain-specific financial LLMs, optimizing low-latency data loops, and establishing deterministic reliability within agentic workflows.

    As a technical co-founder, Sunil leverages cloud-native microservices and intelligent automation to eliminate platform complexity. He combines an execution-first engineering culture with advanced AI capabilities to transform data-intensive bottlenecks into simple, highly scalable, and future-proof digital platforms

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  • Pratima Sharma

    Pratima SharmaChief Marketing Officer

    Pratima Sharma is a seasoned technology executive with more than 20 years of experience driving product, marketing, and growth initiatives across global leaders including Apple, Microsoft, and high-growth startups. She has led go-to-market strategy and product marketing for both SaaS platforms and hardware products, consistently delivering measurable brand growth, market expansion, and revenue impact.

    Known for combining strategic vision with operational execution, Pratima Sharma has built and led cross-functional initiatives that align product innovation with business outcomes. Her extensive experience partnering with senior leadership teams and C-level executives reflects a strong foundation in organizational leadership, business operations, and scaling companies through periods of growth and transformation.

    As Pratima Sharma joins Skeptics.ai as Chief Marketing Officer, she brings a passion for building category-defining brands and scaling innovative technologies to new markets. She will focus on accelerating company growth, strengthening market positioning, and leading strategic marketing initiatives that connect emerging AI solutions with real-world business impact.

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  • Shuyang Ren

    Shuyang RenSoftware Engineering Lead and Technical Consultant

    Shu's background in building scalable software systems, data-driven platforms, and AI-enabled applications has elevated the development process at Skeptics. His experience spans full-stack development, backend architecture, SQL and database engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale data processing pipelines.

    He has worked across startup and enterprise-style environments, leading technical initiatives from architecture through deployment and optimization with a focus on reliable, scalable technology.

    Passionate about software engineering both professionally and personally, Shu has a strong interest in AI and its long-term potential to reshape how people interact with technology, solve complex problems, and build practical, impactful products.

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  • Sreekanth Bhattiprolu

    Sreekanth BhattiproluStrategic Advisor, Product & Design

    Sreekanth Bhattiprolu is a seasoned product executive with deep experience building AI, payments, and financial technology platforms at scale. With a career spanning risk and performance analytics at BNY Mellon and product leadership across AI and payments platforms at Visa, he brings fintech depth, systems thinking, and enterprise product discipline to every problem he touches.

    As a strategic advisor to Skeptics.ai, Sreekanth Bhattiprolu partners with the founding team on product vision, design, and strategy — helping translate complex AI capabilities into solutions that are trusted, usable, and commercially grounded. His focus sits at the intersection of AI, fintech, investment advisory, wealth management, and enterprise product innovation. He is passionate about building at the intersection of AI, fintech, and financial services — where platform thinking and design are the difference between a tool people tolerate and a system they trust.

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