Anand Babu Periasamy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Minio, Inc., a high-performance storage solution for AI, since November 2014. Anand also serves as a board member and angel investor at H2O.ai, a prominent open-source platform for machine learning and AI, since 2012. Additionally, Anand is an investor in Isovalent, focused on API-aware networking and security for cloud-native infrastructure, and has made angel investments in several companies including Zinc Labs, YugaByte, and Starburst. Anand acts as an advisor for Tetrate and Postman, and holds the position of Venture Advisor at Nexus Venture Partners. Anand Babu Periasamy received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Annamalai University, completing studies there from 1995 to 1999.