Vivek Kundra

Vivek Kundra serves as Chief Operating Officer at Sprinklr. As COO of Sprinklr, He is responsible for driving operational excellence across the company. He previously served as EVP at Salesforce, where he led growth and go-to-market strategies for key global verticals such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Auto, Communications, and the Public Sector, by creating an ecosystem of partners and launching new apps to solve industry-specific challenges. He also launched a new Government Cloud, opening up new markets and accelerating growth in the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. Before that, he served as the first CIO for the U.S. government under President Obama. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing $80 billion in annual technology spending, saved $3 billion in taxpayer dollars while moving the government to the cloud, and strengthened the cybersecurity posture of the nation while making it more open, transparent, and participatory. He also served as a joint fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He holds an M.S. in management information systems from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership.