Nayan Patel

Nayan Patel is the current CEO at H2. Prior to this, they served as the Director of International Operations at LinkedIn from May 2008 to June 2011. In this role, they led the development of a formal cross-functional international expansion strategy and business plan to address growth opportunities in markets outside the US. This included supporting market entry analysis and development efforts for key emerging markets in the APAC and LATAM regions, as well as opening LinkedIn's first APAC office in India.

Patel began their career in tech as a systems integrator at IBM from July 1993 to April 1996. Nayan then transitioned to program management at Yahoo! from May 1996 to December 1999. In July 2003, they joined Google as a product manager, a role they held until December 2007.

Nayan Patel has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.