USEReady taps Snowflake veteran Vivekanandan Srinivasan to lead AI adoption

USEReady has named Vivekanandan Srinivasan as practice leader for its Snowflake AI Adoption practice, a move aimed at strengthening delivery and go-to-market efforts around Snowflake and SemaBridge. The appointment brings in a GenAI and enterprise data specialist as USEReady expands its work on semantic interoperability and Snowflake AI tools.

Why it matters: - USEReady is betting on deeper Snowflake expertise as it pushes enterprise AI adoption and launches SemaBridge, its semantic interoperability platform. - The hire is meant to strengthen client delivery, partner engagement and market presence across Snowflake’s AI ecosystem. - The role sits at the intersection of BI modernization, semantic governance and Snowflake-native AI tools, where many enterprises are trying to preserve trusted business logic while moving to modern data platforms.

What happened: - USEReady appointed Vivekanandan Srinivasan as Practice Leader for its Snowflake AI Adoption practice. - Srinivasan will lead Snowflake-aligned service delivery and drive go-to-market efforts. - He joins USEReady from Verizon, where he served as Senior Manager, GenAI Enablement and led the company’s GenAI Prompt Engineering practice. - USEReady announced the appointment on July 8, 2026.

The details: - Srinivasan brings more than a decade of experience building analytics solutions and platforms across data science, big data, cloud analytics and data warehousing. - His hands-on background includes Snowflake, generative AI and enterprise business intelligence. - USEReady said he has been instrumental in early Snowpark toolkit work and in CocoPlus for AI adoption within Snowflake customers. - In the new role, Srinivasan will build and scale USEReady’s Snowflake service capability. - He will anchor client delivery across Snowflake Semantic Views, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents and Snowflake Intelligence. - He will also lead practitioner and partner engagement for SemaBridge. - Srinivasan is a Snowflake Data Superhero, a trainer, a technical blogger and an author. - He co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Snowpark, a practitioner reference for Snowflake’s developer framework. - His academic background includes an MS in Data Science from Eastern University, Pennsylvania, a postgraduate program in Big Data Analytics from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. - He has also served as a data science guest faculty member and advisor for educational institutions. - His Kaggle work ranks in the top 1 percentile globally for kernel contributions. - Previous roles include positions at Lumel and LatentView Analytics, along with research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Between the lines: - USEReady’s comments frame the hire as both a technical and commercial move, not just a staffing change. - The company is signaling that Snowflake AI adoption will be tied to semantic consistency, not only model deployment. - Srinivasan’s background suggests USEReady wants someone who can speak to both enterprise buyers and the Snowflake practitioner community.

What’s next: - Srinivasan is expected to lead AI adoption initiatives for USEReady’s enterprise customers. - USEReady plans to deepen its Snowflake relationship while taking SemaBridge to enterprise customers. - The company will likely use Srinivasan’s visibility in the Snowflake ecosystem to expand thought leadership and partner engagement. - More information is available on the company’s website.