Hitesh Patel is Global Data & AI Director at IHG Hotels & Resorts and a Non-Executive Director at GEN8, an enterprise foundational generative AI platform he helped design and launch, valued at over $10 million. Hitesh spent nearly 7 years at Accenture as Global Innovation Leader in Data, Analytics & AI, where he built the firm's first artificial neural net product for a multi-billion pound business and won multiple internal innovation awards.