Ankit Suman

Founder and Director · LabelNest India Pvt. Ltd.

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Founder · LabelNest India Pvt. Ltd.

Engineer by education.
Data practitioner
by necessity.

Ankit Suman founded LabelNest after almost a decade in data, across operations, quality, management, and governance at CIOReview, Microsoft, Preqin, and BlackRock. The same structural gaps kept appearing. LabelNest is the calculated response.

9 yrs

In data before building this

Nov 2025

Left BlackRock to build full-time

Briefings published

1,000+

Hours of absorbed domain knowledge

"I spent years watching the same problems persist before I decided the right response was to build. Not to complain about the gaps, not to work around them — to build the infrastructure that should have existed."

Ankit Suman · Founder, LabelNest

Before the first line of code

1,000+

Hours of domain knowledge — absorbed by watching the best in the world do it.

Before LabelNest existed, Ankit spent years inside organisations that had solved the data problem at institutional scale. Watching what worked. What didn't. What was being charged for that should have been free. What was missing that nobody had thought to build. The 1,000+ hours is not a marketing number — it's the compounded observation time that produced the diagnosis LabelNest is built on.

CIOReviewMicrosoftPreqinBlackRock

Career

Analyst to Founder.

2016 → Present

Founder

AVP

Lead

Sr Associate

Analyst

CIOReview · Microsoft2016 — 2020

Preqin2020 — 2022

Preqin2022 — 2024