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Khandker Ahamed

Investor

Director, Innovation Services at New York Life Ventures

United States

About

Khandker Ahamed is a Senior Program Manager and Product/Ops leader with over 8 years of enterprise transformation experience at New York Life, General Motors, and Accenture. At New York Life Ventures, he leads AI-enabled transformation across 9 business units, having piloted enterprise agentic AI across 7 workflows and developed AI strategy using human-centered methodology. Previously at General Motors, he established product incubations, drove innovation operating model implementation across 21+ organizations, and built innovation infrastructure that trained 1,000+ employees in Design Thinking; he is also a co-founder of Pure Paws, which was acquired.

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Experience

  1. New York Life Insurance CompanyCVP - Innovation and AI Trasnsformation at New York Life Venturescurrent2024 — presentNew York, NY
  2. Pure PawsFounder & Advisor (Acq. by Daybreak Agency)2023 — 2025New York, United States
  3. General MotorsProduct Strategy & Incubation Lead, Global Strategy & Innovation Team2023 — 2024
  4. General MotorsDesign Program Manager2021 — 2023
  5. Stanford UniversityUI Fellow and Design practitioner2017 — 2024
  6. Kids Ivy TutorsFounder - Reimagining Education by Teaching The Future of Work2015 — 2022Brooklyn, NY
  7. Flora MindCo-Founder2018 — 2021Greater New York City Area
  8. AccentureMental Wellness Lead - NY2019 — 2021
  9. AccentureConsultant2019 — 2021
  10. AccentureProject Management, Campaign Management & Digital Marketing2018 — 2019
  11. Clinton Global InitiativeClinton Global Initiative University Fellow2018 — 2020
  12. The Adecco GroupCEO For 1 Month Finalist | North America2019Jacksonville, Florida Area
  13. The Zahn Innovation CenterEntrepreneur In Residence2019Greater New York City Area
  14. Western Alliance BankM&A Escrow and Payments Intern2018New Jersey, United States
  15. IntuitNational Intuit Product Management Competition2017

Education

  1. Stanford UniversityDesign Thinking & Innovation Fellowship (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design - d.school)
  2. CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary StudiesBachelor's degree, Product Management and Social Entrepreneurship
  3. Universidad Nacional de Tres de FebreroStudy Abroad, Human Rights

Skills & more

Design ThinkingFacilitationCommunicationLeadership41Strategy6Strategic Planning5Problem Solving1Public Speaking14Mentoring5Team Leadership6Management4Strategic Thinking1
+12 morePrototypingAdobe InDesignMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelGoogle AdsProduct DevelopmentDesign StrategyQuantitative DataUser Experience (UX)Service DesignStrategic DesignUser-centered Design

Languages Bengali · English · Hindi · Spanish

  • Design Thinking — IDEO
  • Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader — LinkedIn

From Khandker's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Stanford University1,575

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital

+ 1,569 more

Also attended Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero1

Juan RosliChief Technology Officer at Accial Capital

Shared employers

Also worked at General Motors38

Dom LesterInvestment Ops Lead at Episode1Joel HemmertFinance/Legal/IR at 8VCShahin FarshchiPartner at Lux CapitalGokul DixitPartner at Dallas Venture CapitalAlex GurevichManaging Director at Javelin Venture PartnersAmy VilleneuveBoard Director, Advisor & Past COO and President of Amazon Robotics at Underscore VC

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Also worked at Stanford University401

Ann Miura-KoCo-founding Partner at FloodgateMartin CasadoGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzDeep NisharInvestment Team at General CatalystPaul KwanInvestment Team at General CatalystBryan OffuttInvestor at Index VenturesJulia AndreInvestor at Index Ventures

+ 395 more

Also worked at Accenture587

Mark SusterManaging Partner at Upfront VenturesViviana FagaGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesJulie YangVice President at InvestcorpAmira OujiVice President of Platform & Portfolio Success, Rise of the Rest at RevolutionAntonio GrifoniAssociate at P101 VenturesWendy XiaoPartner at Northzone

+ 581 more

Also worked at Intuit61

Nate WangVP of Investments at Plum Alley InvestmentsDavid HahnCISO Operating Partner at Ballistic VenturesGregory BillingtonResearch at Transform Capital ManagementArjun AroraInvestor at Streamlined VenturesAdam CoccariManaging Director at HubSpot VenturesTekedra MawakanaCo-CEO, Waymo at Operator Collective

+ 55 more

Colleagues at New York Life Ventures

Alan Day
Senior Associate, Investments at New York Life Ventures
Brian Gloede
Head of Business Development and Startup Partnerships at New York Life Ventures
Caitlin Herling
Director, Business Development at New York Life Ventures
Elizabeth Yenko
Head of Innovation Services at New York Life Ventures
Emma Flaherty
Senior Associate, Business Development at New York Life Ventures
Helen Sohn
Director, Business Development at New York Life Ventures
Joel Albarella
SVP, Head of NYL Ventures at New York Life Ventures
John Masson
Director, Investments at New York Life Ventures