NEW YORK | MUMBAI – October 19, 2026: Fractal Analytics Ltd. (BSE: 544700, NSE: FRACTAL), an enterprise AI company that builds its own AI models, platforms and products for Fortune 500® organizations, announced that Shilpa Kedia has joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Shilpa will lead Fractal’s global finance organization, supporting profitable growth and disciplined capital allocation. Her priorities will include directing capital toward Fractal’s research, platforms and products, building a commercial model that prices for the value Fractal’s AI creates, and helping investors understand how the company’s financial strategy supports earnings growth.

Shilpa joins Fractal from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), where she served as Chief Financial Officer for its India Medical Devices & Technology (MedTech) business. Prior to this, she spent four years at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), holding leadership positions including Head of Investor Relations, Group Finance Controller, and Head of M&A, Treasury & Insurance. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly a decade with J&J across its Consumer and MedTech businesses and five years with Nokia India, building a strong controllership foundation. She began her career with the Tata Administrative Services (TAS) leadership program at the Tata Group.

“Our AI strategy starts with the decisions that matter to a client’s business and builds the intelligence to improve them. Shilpa brings the perspective of someone who has made investment decisions and been accountable for the returns. She will help us strengthen the commercial model behind our strategy: where we invest in platforms and our products, how we price for the value we create, and how we turn that value into sustained earnings growth for Fractal. That combination of client understanding and financial discipline will be valuable as we build the next phase of Fractal,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder and Group CEO, Fractal.

“Fractal combines deep AI research with a sharp understanding of the decisions its clients need to get right, and it builds its own models and products to improve them. Having spent two decades on the client side, I know what it takes for a business to commit to AI and hold it accountable for returns. My priority is to bring that same discipline to Fractal: investing behind our platforms and products, and giving investors a clear line of sight from that investment to durable, profitable growth,” said Shilpa Kedia, CFO, Fractal.

Shilpa is a Chartered Accountant with an all-India rank and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Narsee Monjee College.

About Fractal

Fractal Analytics Ltd (BSE: 544700, NSE: FRACTAL) is an enterprise AI company with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal builds AI models, platforms and products, and engineers them into the critical decisions of Fortune 500® organizations.  Fractal’s strategy is focused on three pillars: AI-led Transformation (AIT), which rebuilds business workflows and decisions with AI; AI Foundations (AIF), which builds the trusted, governed data and knowledge layer that enterprise AI reasons with; and AI Work & Workforce (AIW), which helps organizations redesign work, develop AI-ready talent, and build the capabilities needed for the AI-native enterprise. All three pillars are powered by Cogentiq, Fractal’s flagship agentic AI platform.

With over 6,000 professionals across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, Fractal partners with business leaders to drive competitive differentiation for their organizations by embedding AI into critical decisions across business functions and industry verticals.

Fractal invests more than 6% of its revenue in AI R&D, and its research team builds its own models, including the Fathom reasoning models. Fractal was selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build a large reasoning model for India. Its models and products include Vaidya.ai, whose Vaidya 2.0 model was the first to score above 50 on OpenAI’s HealthBench (hard), and PiEvolve. Fractal also incubated and spun out Qure.ai, a global healthcare AI leader focused on the rapid identification and management of tuberculosis, lung cancer, and stroke. Fractal’s businesses also include Asper.ai (a Revenue Growth Management product for CPG companies) and Analytics Vidhya (an Ed-tech platform).

For further information, please contact:

Abhishek Sharma
Fractal
9873145025
abhishek.sharma@fractal.ai

Astha Jhunjhunwala
Fractal
9830138432
astha.jhunjhunwala@fractal.ai

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