Nandu Nandakumar

Nandu Nandakumar is the co-founder of Virima Technologies where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. Over the course of his career, he has supervised over a hundred projects using multiple methodologies on a wide range of platforms, ranging from transactional systems to data warehouses to intelligent systems. His expertise in analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and business process management (BPM), comes from building analytics engines for a variety of industries ranging from telecom, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, building AI systems for manufacturing, telecommunications and other industries, and designing and re-engineering processes for BPM and operations. Prior to Virima, Nandakumar was founder and CEO at Core Concept, a provider of enterprise performance management software applications for the pharmaceutical industry. He also served as COO at Calsoft Labs, a software development and testing lab, and vice president at Chemoil Corp, a marine fuel supplier, where he oversaw strategy, planning and IT. He also taught Operations Management as well as Product Design as Duke University Fuqua School. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, MBA from IIM Calcutta, M.S. and PhD from Carnegie Mellon.