Vishal Sikka
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Vishal Sikka (born May, 1967) is the founder and CEO of Vianai, a San Francisco Bay startup that provides advanced technological intelligence and Machine Learning to Fortune Companies around the world.
He currently serves on Oracle's board of directors, the BMW Group's supervisory board, and as an advisor to the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered AI.
Sikka served as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys before.
He resigned as Infosys' managing director on August 18, 2017.
When Nandan Nilekani was appointed as the new Non Executive Chairman of the Board, he resigned as Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys on August 24, 2017.
Sikka was a member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, a market leader in SAP products and innovation globally prior to joining Infosys.
Sikka managed SAP's product portfolio, which included SAP HANA's breakthrough in-memory technology, as well as all of SAP's applications, cloud, and technology solutions.
He is credited with increasing SAP's development processes, transforming its innovation culture, and leading several successful product co-creation projects with clients.
He is also the developer of the term 'timeless software,' which means that products can be renewed without disruption to customer environments. Sikka left the SAP board in May 2014 for "personal reasons," and was confirmed as CEO and MD of Infosys on June 12, 2017, possibly due to a disagreement with the co-founders.
Early life and career
Sikka was born in Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh, India, to Punjabi parents - an officer in the Indian Railways and a tutor. When he was six years old, his family moved to Vadodara, Gujarat. He began his education in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rajkot, and then at Rosary High School in Rosary, Portugal (Vadodara). Sikka completed his bachelor's in Computer Engineering at Maharaja Sayajira University of Baroda, but he left to Syracuse University in New York where he obtained a B.S. Computer Science is a branch of mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1996. Michael Genesereth, his thesis advisor, was entitled Integrating Specialized Procedures into Proof Systems.
Marvin Minsky, one of AI's founding fathers, wrote a recommendation letter to Sikka for his admission to Stanford. One of Sikka's teachers, John McCarthy, who is also known as a father of AI.
Sikka formed iBrain, which was competing at the time with Business Objects, after a short stint at Xerox's research labs. PatternRX, Inc. acquired iBrain, Inc.'s second startup, Bodha.com, concentrated on providing technologies for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and data. Following their acquisition of Bodha.com, Sikka joined Peregrine Systems as their area Vice President for Platform Technologies, which is responsible for application design and integration technologies, as well as architecture.