Vinay Pande

Vinay Pande has a long and varied career in the technology industry. Vinay began their career in 1994 as a Developer/Engineer at General Electric. In 1996 they joined Verizon, where they served in various roles including Senior Manager (Pricing, Provisioning, Data Warehouse, Dashboards, Analytics), Product Manager (Security, DR and Pro Svcs), Strategic Account Executive (Vertical Target Mktg.), and Senior Financial Analyst (M&A, FP&A, New Product Dev). In 2009 they joined masala.ai as Chief Innovation Officer, where they worked on Ethical Automation for Media Analysis and Content Moderation. In 2013 they became the CEO of Mindboard, Inc., an information technology solutions and services provider. Most recently, in 2021, they joined Kaiops.io as a Product Evangelist, where they work to improve security and simplify IT cloud operations.

Vinay Pande obtained a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and an MBA in Finance and Entreprenuership from the University of Chicago.