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About Shailendra Nair

AI Generalist & Executive Tech Leader in Insurance & Benefits Tech. Driving growth, trust, and resilience from AIG to Marsh McLennan. I am an AI Generalist and Executive Technology Leader with a career dedicated to reimagining how insurance and benefits ecosystems work in a digital first world. My expertise spans Insurance & Benefits Tech, digital transformation, and cybersecurity, with a proven ability to turn technology into both a growth engine and a resilience enabler. I have worked with global leaders such as PepsiCo, Allianz, AIG, and Marsh McLennan, experiences that gave me a rare mix of perspectives across insurance carriers, broking, and benefits advisory. This combination allows me to design solutions that balance global standards, local compliance, and client expectations while driving measurable business value. My strength lies in full stack insurance technology leadership, covering Property & Casualty, Life, and Benefits. I bring hands-on expertise in infrastructure, cloud, security, and enterprise architecture, combined with data platforms, AI automation, and digital ecosystems. Having led across this spectrum, I can translate complex technology into practical outcomes that deliver trust, scale, and innovation. As an AI Generalist, I focus on impact: • Building automation first operations that scale efficiently. • Designing chatbots and intelligent assistants to empower employees and clients. • Deploying AI-driven QA frameworks to improve speed and accuracy. • Exploring agentic AI roles to support compliance and transformation. My philosophy is simple: technology should reduce friction, inspire confidence, and accelerate growth. I design platforms that enhance sales, revenue, and client stickiness, proving that tech can directly enable business outcomes. At the same time, I remain deeply client centric a solution enabler who thinks out of the box to solve real challenges and deliver measurable ROI. 🌍 What excites me most is reimagining benefits ecosystems for the future of work. Employees demand seamless digital first experiences, organizations need efficiency, and regulators require trust and security. My mission is to build ecosystems that are secure, resilient, innovative, and human focused.

Facebook could fade out like a disease, math model says

Search query data for “Facebook” and “MySpace” obtained from Google Trends overlaid on top of each other. Facebook is like an infectious disease, experiencing a spike before its decline, according to US researchers who claim the social network will lose … Continue reading

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Your Data Gets Lost Or Stolen Online Frequently. Do You Even Care?

2013 was filled with even more large service providers, government departments and enterprises getting hacked or otherwise loosing your data. Your data was likely lost on multiple occasions just from the breaches in the news, let alone the ones that … Continue reading

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Hackers Are Attacking Millions Of Computers And Demanding Ransom In Bitcoins

Before you mail holiday gifts to faraway friends and relatives, back up your most important computer files. There’s a scary new computer virus called CryptoLocker that was spreading like crazy in the U.K. last month and is now crossing over … Continue reading

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Fine Art by Shailendra Nair

Fine Art by Shailendra Nair

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The biggest hindrance to corporate growth

IT departments are “the biggest hindrance to corporate growth”, and they need to learn from the “shadow IT” workaround of other divisions bringing SaaS solutions in directly. That’s what David Linthicum, the curator of Gigaom Research’s cloud coverage, sees in … Continue reading

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London Gets Its Own Internet Domain

Special Thanks to Karishma Sinha London will shortly be one of Europe’s first cities to get its own top level domain after .london was approved by the Internet’s naming body. Dot London & Partners, a government-funded promotional group that will … Continue reading

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Is The Internet Domain Land Rush A Land Rush At All?

There’s a land rush going on right now. At least that’s how everyone seems to be describing the with so-called top-level domains. Pretty soon, there’s going to be a lot more than .coms out there, and a lot of big … Continue reading

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Google Search: Reunion

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Being Martians

Now we can say Being “Martians” – Shailendra Nair

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Past and Present Apple Newton & IPad

I am a proud owner of Apple Newton MessagePad Handheld computers were still largely the stuff of science fiction, way back in the year 1993, when I had the opportunity to own Apple Newton (OMP or Original MessagePad) running Apple … Continue reading

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