Leadership

Meet Our Founders

Our leadership team brings together deep expertise in commodity markets, AI strategy, and engineering excellence. Together, we're building Novaex—an AI platform that transforms commodity market volatility into strategic opportunity.

By Novaex Team
Kailash Gaikwad

Kailash Gaikwad

Founder & CEO

Built and ran a $1B+ base-metals book across base metals, owning pricing, hedging, and risk. Built high-performance teams and resilient systems end-to-end. Operator at heart, turning volatile markets into real-time, trusted decisions.

Srikar Reddy

Srikar Reddy

Co-Founder & CTO

With a decade in technology across backend, mobile, and ML, Srikar brings deep engineering and product expertise. At Novaex, he builds scalable systems and teams that turn complex data and market signals into intelligent, real-time decisions.

Ajinkya Bhagwat

Ajinkya Bhagwat

Co-Founder & COO

B.Tech, MBA, LLB. Ajinkya worked in a $1.6B NSE treasury, built multiple brands from scratch, and scaled AI strategy for multi-billion dollar firms. As COO at Novaex, he runs day-to-day operations, scaling the team, processes, and go-to-market that turn commodity market volatility into opportunity for clients.

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