Samhith Padala.

Co-founding a South Indian and Pakistani café concept opening near ASU in Tempe, built around chai, community, and a menu that blends both cultures into one table.

Secured $340K in funding to bring the concept to life.

Own end-to-end delivery of an agentic AI product for Adobe Experience Cloud: PRDs, strategy, and success metrics for an autonomous agent rolling out across 50+ Fortune 500 accounts, representing over $10B in client revenue.

Built a churn prediction model from the ground up (logistic regression, 0.82 AUC) across 353 enterprise customers, isolating three behavioral signals with a 23x gap between retained and churned accounts.

Designed and shipped an LLM-powered recommendation workflow using Claude Skills and MCP integrations, presenting risk-scored action plans for 384 active customers and flagging 13 critical-risk accounts for intervention.

Research and DCF valuation on tech and consumer equities for a $1.1M student-run hedge fund.

Manage project delivery within a student-run strategy consulting club at Berkeley.

Lead Berkeley's largest entrepreneurship and VC conference: 40+ staff, 20+ partners, 1,000+ attendees a year.

Analyzed Honeywell's Building Management Systems market, sizing growth from roughly $20B in 2023 to a projected $220B by 2030, to inform enterprise go-to-market strategy.

Partnered with the CRO to optimize channel strategy, evaluating incentive models projected to drive +15–20% sales growth.

Assessed digitization maturity across all 50 U.S. states and evaluated embedded payment opportunities in public services.

Conducted 50+ stakeholder interviews and built a data-driven go-to-market plan for Visa's state platform expansion.

President from Nov 2018 to Aug 2025, now Strategic Advisor. Scaled a productized media creation platform to roughly $2.2M in revenue, $1.7M ARR, and $440K profit in 2025.

Led the acquisition of Digiteyes Photography Ltd, supporting 3.1x year-over-year growth, then negotiated a $6.8M acquisition of the company by a private equity firm.

Managed go-to-market strategy for a proxy IP vendor, generating roughly $215K in 2024 revenue and $150K in ARR heading into 2026.

Built forecasting and pricing models that improved profitability by about 18% and shaped packaging strategy.

Co-founded a vision-care nonprofit alongside my sister, in partnership with Lions Club International, that has donated over $200K and distributed 2,700+ eyeglass frames across 8 countries since launching in 2022.

Advise on strategic partnerships and operational infrastructure, applying lessons from scaling and selling Sync Visual Media to build sustainable nonprofit operations.

Started shooting paid photoshoots at 11. Once it turned into steady income, built it into a full design studio. Clients since have ranged from Dunkin' Donuts to the G20 Summit.