SHANKAR NARAYANAN is an AI and Fintech entrepreneur and is currently Head of APAC GUPSHUP INC.

In 2000, he founded Internet payment company Cazh in 2005 he founded enterprise mobility company TAGIT and in 2012 he founded Social Payment company, Fastacash. Shankar was a co-founder of Conversational AI company, Active.AI, which was acquired by Gupshup Inc in 2022. 

He started his career in 3D computer animation in India, and carved a niche in multi-media production work when he moved to Singapore 30 years ago.