Mr. Vivek Sharma

Vivek Sharma builds and grows businesses with AI and quantum technologies, as a Founder-CEO, Fortune 500 operator, and public-company director.

Vivek is the CEO and co-founder of Quantelix, which is commercializing Caltech-patented, quantum-enabled biosensing in a handheld device with laboratory-grade accuracy. Previously, he was CEO and co-founder of InStride, an education-technology company he scaled to more than $100M in profitable annual revenue in four years, earning a place on Fortune's inaugural "Impact 20."

Vivek serves on the boards of Kaiser Permanente, JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), Pearson (LSE: PSON), and Coforge (NSE: COFORGE) – with public-company governance experience across the US, UK, and India. He is a member of Caltech's Information Science and Technology (IST) Advisory Council, an adjunct professor of data science at the University of Southern California, and a senior advisor for AI and quantum to private equity firms and AI-startup founders. He is the author of two books, C-SPARK and WIREFRAMED, and has written for HBR and NACD on how boards and executives should navigate AI.

In his Fortune 500 operating roles, Vivek spent six years at The Walt Disney Company as Senior Vice President of Digital Guest Experience and E-commerce, overseeing a $10B online business serving 150 million guests a year across Disney's global parks, resorts, cruises, restaurants, and retail. Before that, he held leadership roles at Yahoo for four years – serving as General Manager of Yahoo Mail and Messenger and Vice President of Yahoo Search – and spent eight years at McKinsey as an Associate Partner.

Vivek graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.