Vivek Kundra

Vivek Kundra is best known as the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, where he spearheaded the federal government's shift to cloud computing, open data, and digital transparency. His landmark initiatives included the IT Dashboard, which brought unprecedented public visibility into federal technology spending, and the Data.gov platform, which opened vast troves of government data to citizens and developers. These efforts established him as a pioneering figure in digital transformation at scale. Following his government tenure, Kundra held senior executive roles in the private sector, including as Executive Vice President at Salesforce, where he led global public sector strategy. He later served as CEO of Sprinklr, a customer experience management platform, before joining The Trade Desk as Chief Operating Officer. At The Trade Desk, one of the largest independent demand-side programmatic advertising platforms, Kundra oversees operations for a company that sits at the center of the global digital advertising ecosystem. Kundra brings a distinctive blend of public-sector leadership, enterprise technology expertise, and operational scale to the programmatic advertising industry. His career arc — from reshaping how the U.S. government uses data to running operations at a major AdTech platform — reflects a consistent focus on data-driven decision-making and large-scale digital infrastructure.

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