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Madhukar Govindaraju

Madhukar Govindaraju

Founder & CEO, Numly, Inc.

Madhukar Govindaraju is the Founder & CEO of Numly, Inc. Numly's mission is to bring AI and Machine Learning to the HR-Tech stack and applications, at the world's leading companies. Madhukar is an experienced entrepreneur and brings more than two decades of experience in the tech industry as a Product Executive, CTO, engineering, and business leader, at some of the world’s leading software companies, including VMware, Microsoft, TriNet HR, Saba Software, SAP / Business Objects, Hyperion Solutions, HP, IBM, and several successful startups. Most recently, he joined VMware through the acquisition of E8 Security, Inc., where he led the Engineering Organization in the design and development of E8's AI / Machine Learning-based, User-Entity Behavioral Analytics Platform, which is now the backbone for Zero-Trust CyberSecurity Cloud infrastructure, deployed world-wide in various large global corporations. Prior to VMware, Madhukar was at Microsoft Corporation where he led a product engineering organization, that designed and developed Microsoft’s AI / machine learning-enabled, data platforms and services, built on Microsoft’s Customer Knowledge Graph for Commercial Sales and Marketing (CRM) applications, which is now integrated into Microsoft's CRM Dynamics Platform, delivered via the Azure Cloud.

His extensive background as an experienced software executive includes:
- Developing and delivering SaaS / cloud-based, market-leading HCM, CRM and financial applications, social enterprise and collaboration software.
- Market leading application software, business intelligence (BI) platforms, big data management stacks, data visualization and information consumption, predictive analytics, and AI / machine learning platforms.

Madhukar has attended the Doctoral program in Computer Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India). He has also attended the Executive Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Madhukar has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Tsinghua-Peking University's Department of Computer Science, earlier. In his spare time, he enjoys music, biking, and traveling with his wife and two boys.

Madhukar Govindaraju

Founder & CEO, Numly, Inc.