​Ask Me Anything: Bhuva Shakti

​​Product, Operations, Fundraising Advisor

​📍 Session #32 of the Startup Growth Playbook

​🔗 Register on this luma page to join us on LIVE

​➡️ This session, Bhuva's guest is: Adam Trotman, Co-Founder & CEO of Aerium.

​​Startup Growth Playbook Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Adam Trotman

​How AI Is Reshaping Manufacturing and Supply Chains

​Manufacturing is entering a new era.

​Not because of more automation.

​Because AI is becoming part of the industrial workforce.

​🎯 Bhuva Shakti, Fundraising Advisor at Wallet Max, brings a product, operations, and investor-readiness perspective shaped by helping AI startups translate technical innovation into scalable, fundable businesses.

​🎯 Adam Trotman, Co-Founder & CEO of Aerium, is building an AI workforce purpose-built for industrial manufacturing and distribution.

​Aerium deploys autonomous AI solutions across supply chain, procurement, and operations for companies behind the products we interact with every day.

​This Startup Growth Playbook LIVE session focuses on:

​✅ How AI is changing industrial operations

​✅ Building an AI workforce for manufacturing and distribution

​✅ Deploying enterprise AI in complex physical environments

​✅ Turning operational intelligence into scalable growth

​✅ What founders and investors should watch as reindustrialization accelerates

​Who should attend?

​➡️ Founders, operators, investors, manufacturers, supply chain leaders, and ecosystem builders working across AI, industrial technology, enterprise software, logistics, and operations.

​📌 Session #32 of the Startup Growth Playbook Series

​🎙️ LIVE Interview: Bhuva Shakti and Adam Trotman

​🗓️ July 08, 2026 at 3-4 PM ET

​🔗 RSVP to join us LIVE 👇

​And, check out my website for FREE startup and leadership resources → https://www.bhuvas-impact.global/bhuva/

​🎯 Register on this luma page to join us on LIVE

​​Unable to join us LIVE?

​Please register in this luma page, and get full access to all the past and future session recordings @ www.getwalletmax.com/membership

​About Adam Trotman:

​Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Aerium. Prior to co-founding the company, Adam worked at McKinsey & Company across their industrial, manufacturing, and QuantumBlack practices deploying software at some of the world's largest companies. Personally, he also grew up around the industry through his Dad's work and one of his first jobs was machinery maintenance.

​Aerium is an AI workforce purpose-built for industrial manufacturing and distribution. On top of their data intelligence layer, they deploy autonomous solutions across supply chain, procurement, and operations for companies behind the products we unknowingly interact with every day. As everyone looks to reindustrialize, our mission is to help companies evolve into the next version of themselves.

​About Wallet Max: 

​Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors.

With more than 10 investments directly in impact entrepreneurs thus far, Wallet Max’s network of 2,000 innovators and 60 partners regularly meet in person and virtually throughout the year to mutually exchange connections and drive collective action. Wallet Max ecosystem of events and initiatives are prominent during the New York Fintech Week, the New York Tech Week, and the New York Climate Week every year.

Wallet Max's Planet Positive Podcast is a monthly interview with investors driving impact globally. Aligned with our mission to challenge the status quo, we showcase personal and professional journeys of diverse investors (Angels, VCs, PEs, Family Office, Corporate Venture) looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments. Supporting sustainable innovations is good for people's wellbeing, planet survival, and financial profits.

Learn more about Wallet Max success and 2026 global initiatives: https://getwalletmax.com/climate-forward

​​About Bhuva Shakti:

​Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups. With an MBA from Columbia University in New York and as a senior executive director on Wall Street for three decades, Bhuva has managed diverse financial portfolios and launched several digital transformation products for investment banks, capital markets, and payment networks.

​Bhuva’s leadership and risk governance oversight, during the global financial crisis and the pandemic, was pivotal for the success of regulatory compliance and mergers acquisitions at the world's top banks and credit rating institutions. Bhuva is a board director and C-Suite advisor for people and planet friendly businesses, without compromising profits, and a keynote and TEDx speaker advancing economic inclusion and climate-fintech partnerships.

​Bhuva is the USA country director for World Business Angels Investment Forum and the Chief Ethics & Culture Officer for Women in AI worldwide. She leads fundraising strategy and product operations for market expansion and manages investor relations from diligence to investment. Bhuva is the founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global, offering board and enterprise risk advisory services for public and private corporations.