Himanshu Joshi

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DISC Type : DC

Founder at COHUMAIN Labs

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Overview

Himanshu Joshi is the Founder of COHUMAIN Labs, focusing on safe and aligned AI. With a background from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin, he is a researcher at MIT FutureTech and previously guided Fortune 500 companies at the Vector Institute. Colleagues describe him as thoughtful, strategic, and compassionate.

He has a distinguished 20-year background in leadership roles within the Indian, French, and Mauritian maritime forces, where he commanded warships and managed teams of up to 500 individuals.

Unique fact: He was awarded the Royal Gorkha Brigade Medal for Team Spirit and Leadership by the President of India.

Personality Overview

Rigorous & Demanding

ROI Driven

Fast But Analytical

They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success.  They do not care very much about building rapport or relationships. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms.

Topics They Care About

AI Governance & Safety
His work at COHUMAIN Labs and MIT FutureTech focuses on building frameworks for safe, secure, and aligned AI systems for enterprise use.
Agentic AI Systems
He is actively researching and architecting next-generation multi-agent AI systems, believing it's the next major shift after generative AI.
AI & Cybersecurity
He speaks on the hidden security risks and vulnerabilities that generative AI can introduce into software development pipelines.

Media Appearances

RAI(2) Ep, 7 - Himanshu Joshi, AI Strategist, Vector Institute. Featured in YouTube

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Work History

11-2025
Founder at COHUMAIN Labs
1-2025
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at MIT FutureTech
11-2022 - 10-2025
Applied AI at Vector Institute
6-2025 - 9-2025
AI Instructor at University of Waterloo
1-2025 - 9-2025
LinkedIn Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

Education

6-2020 - 11-2021
General Management and Business Administration (MIT Sloan School of Management) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS from The University of Texas at Austin

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Insights For Selling To Himanshu

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship
  • When negotiating terms, help them build an impression that they are the ones calling the shots
  • Make sure that you circle back fast on any action items, it wins their trust

DONT's

  • Don’t take too much time in sending them information if they ask for any
  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them
  • Avoid being a storyteller and don’t try to oversell

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Himanshu is

  • Confidence in impact is paramount to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Himanshu

  • If they decide not to go ahead, they will say no without hesitation.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Himanshu move?

  • If convinced, they can reach decisions quite fast.
  • Can Himanshu take some risk or not?

  • They do not shy away from taking risks, but can be quite binary about them.

You And Himanshu

Personality Compatibility


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