Ali Sadhik Shaik is a product executive, author, and AI governance researcher with two decades of experience building and scaling technology products across B2B SaaS, fintech, and industrial AI. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Product & Market Strategy at Astrikos AI, a Bengaluru-based industrial AI company delivering digital twin, predictive maintenance, and asset health monitoring solutions for critical infrastructure across India and the Middle East.
A scholar-practitioner, Sadhik writes at the intersection of artificial intelligence, markets, and governance. He is the author of The Algorithmic Monographs, a five-book series examining how algorithmic systems are reshaping economic coordination, industrial intelligence, information markets, digital governance, and executive decision-making – including The Algorithmic Invisible Hand, The Market for Truth, and The Republic of Code. His most recent book, The Chief Product and Marketing Officer (2026), makes the case for a unified product-and-market leadership function in the AI era. His broader research corpus spans 30 working papers published across SSRN, Zenodo, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu, covering algorithmic market dynamics, content verification frameworks such as the Klyrox Protocol, and AI’s impact on organizational design.
Sadhik is a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Golden Gate University, USA and is pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Technology Policy at the Takshashila Institution. He holds an MBA from Edith Cowan University, where he graduated first in his class, along with executive credentials in AI from UT Austin and product management from IIM Indore. He is a Certified Independent Director.
As part of the ERAI Media Cohort, Sadhik focuses on translating complex AI governance and industrial AI questions into accessible public writing – bridging the gap between how AI systems are built in practice and how they are understood in policy and public discourse.
He is based in Bengaluru, India.