Shrish Janarthanan is a Co-Founder at Assemble (assemble.ai), an AI-native platform building agents to help enterprise IT teams plan, execute, and roll back complex system changes across ERPs, CRMs, and HRIS platforms.

Shrish grew up in Dubai, attended Dubai College, and went on to study Computer Science with an AI specialization at Stanford University, where he earned a 4.08 GPA and was selected as a Mayfield Fellow, one of only 12 students chosen for Stanford's premier entrepreneurship program.

A multi-time national and international debate champion, Shrish also founded DebatePro, an educational initiative that brought structured debate programs to over 1,105 students across 49 schools in 7 countries.

Prior to Assemble, Shrish interned as an AI and Cyber Security consultant at KPMG in Dubai, where he designed LLM pipelines and zero-trust architectures, and served as a Product Manager at Stylework, a leading B2B co-working aggregator in India.

Assemble addresses a critical enterprise challenge where only 48% of digital transformation initiatives meet their intended outcomes, empowering IT teams to deliver complex multi-system projects across Salesforce, SAP, and Workday with greater speed and control.