Nand Mulchandani

About

Nand Mulchandani is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for public service and a love for small, fast-moving teams focused on disrupting big markets. He was most recently the chief technology officer (CTO) at the Central Intelligence Agency and the CTO and acting director of the US Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.

Prior to pivoting to government service, Mulchandani was cofounder and CEO of multiple successful start-ups—Oblix Inc. (acquired by Oracle), Determina (acquired by VMware), OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), and ScaleXtreme (acquired by Citrix). He was a Senior Executive at VMware and Citrix and started his career as a Compiler Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Mulchandani has a degree in Computer Science and Math from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.