Vishal Rajesh Kothekar

Vishal Rajesh Kothekar is the Chief Product Officer of The AI Lab, where he owns the product strategy and roadmap for TIP Protocol (Trust Identity Protocol), the AI Trust Registry, and the Global Seal of Trust certification platform. His mandate is to translate the research, architecture, and engineering work of The AI Lab's technical leadership into the products that publishers, platforms, jurisdictions, and Verification Providers actually adopt at scale. Vishal joins from Azlogics Private Limited, where he served as Chief Technology Officer, leading technology vision, product engineering, and innovation across a portfolio of API-driven and AI-enabled platforms used by banks, NBFCs, and regulated enterprises. There he architected and shipped flagship products including RPACPC, KYCPLUS, and AZAPI.AI, building deep expertise in identity verification, compliance automation, and high-trust API delivery, disciplines that map directly to the TIP Protocol product surface and its biometric, post-quantum identity layer. At The AI Lab, Vishal focuses on shaping the publisher and creator experience around TIP-ID, the badge and origin-code ecosystem, and the workflows that power independent third-party AI certification, ensuring the protocol is built to be adopted as confidently as it is built to be sound.