What does Prima Partners do?

Prima Partners is the advisory practice of Prasanna Walimbe. It operates in three modes: AI & IT strategy advisory for CXOs, corporate AI enablement and delivery, and angel investment plus mentoring for early-stage founders in fintech, supply chain and applied AI.

Who is Prasanna Walimbe?

Prasanna Walimbe is a deep-tech operator with 20+ years of experience across AI evaluation and safety, AI/ML architecture, and financial research. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta and a Certified Independent Director advising boards on cross-border AI investments, operations and compliance.

Which sectors does Prima Partners focus on?

Fintech and BFSI, supply chain, manufacturing, and applied AI across enterprise use cases. Assurance work is mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

How do I engage Prima Partners?

Email pw@prima-partners.com to start a conversation. Engagements run globally on a remote-first basis from Dubai.

What is AI governance consulting and what frameworks do you use?

AI governance consulting maps an organisation's AI systems, decisions and controls to a recognised risk framework — typically the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — and closes the gaps. Prima Partners runs checklist-based evaluations, model-risk reviews and board-level assurance for financial services, supply chain and applied-AI use cases.

Do you serve boards as an Independent Director?

Yes. Prasanna Walimbe is a Certified Independent Director and advises boards on AI strategy, cross-border investment and operations, and compliance obligations across jurisdictions — with a specialisation in fintech, supply chain and applied AI.

Do you offer corporate AI training and enablement?

Yes. Corporate AI enablement includes executive workshops, leadership AI literacy, hands-on programmes for delivery teams, and practical playbooks — AI realism vs hype, ML deployment, GTM for AI products, and the founder's mindset inside corporates.

Do you mentor or invest in startups?

Prima Partners writes angel cheques and provides hands-on mentoring to pre-seed and seed founders in fintech, supply chain and applied AI. Support covers technical architecture, GTM, commercial modelling and board readiness.

Corporate AI Training & Enablement

Enablement programmes that move an organisation from AI curiosity to shipping — built and delivered by an operator, not a trainer reading slides.

Programmes

Executive AI literacy (1-day intensive for boards and C-suites). Product & engineering enablement (2–5 day hands-on tracks: model choice, evaluation, deployment, guardrails). Delivery muscle (embedded advisory alongside your first two or three shipped AI features). Playbooks (internal reference material tailored to your stack and sector).

What sticks

Every programme lands with a written internal playbook and one shipped artefact — a working prototype, an evaluation harness, or a governance memo — so the training does not evaporate the week after.

Formats

On-site, remote or hybrid. Cohorts from 8 to 80. Global delivery with a Dubai anchor.

Frequently asked

Is this vendor-neutral?: Yes. Programmes cover OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and open-weight stacks and pick tools based on the client's constraints, not partnerships.
Do you certify participants?: Completion attestations only. External certification (e.g. ISO 42001 lead-implementer) is out of scope but can be sequenced alongside.

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