Venkata Reddy Konasani is a data scientist and corporate trainer with experience in credit risk modeling, market response model building, social media analytics, and machine learning and deep learning. He holds a Master's degree in applied statistics and informatics from IIT Bombay. Shailendra Kadre works at Hewlett Packard and holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi. He is the author of two books and numerous articles dealing with business analytics.