Aashish Chandra

Co-Founder at Sundial

Aashish Chandra is a digital transformation and technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving business innovation using technology. With a successful record of developing highly scalable online, mobile, data analytics and digital platforms, Aashish has served in various leadership roles, including IT Leadership (equivalent to CIO & CTO), Board Member, Co-founder / COO, Startup & VC Advisor, Visiting Professor, and an EIR (VC/PE). He is known for his deep insights into business culture across the US, UK, Europe, India, and Australia. Aashish Chandra's honors and awards include being a winner of the SF Bay Area 'CIO of the Year' Award, Silicon Valley '40 Under 40' Award, and several patents filed.

Aashish Chandra studied a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology, and completed an Executive Management program specializing in Business, General Management, and Organization from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Currently, Aashish Chandra serves as the Global Head of Technology - Retail, CPG, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Industries Cluster at Tata Consultancy Services. He serves on the Board of Directors and acts as an Advisor to several high-tech startups and Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley. He is also a Visiting Professor/Guest lecturer at several esteemed universities and an avid speaker at dozens of CXO events globally. Additionally, he co-founded Big Data startup, MetaScale, and graduated from the executive education program at Stanford University.

Aashish Chandra is passionate about strategy, customer experience, operational excellence, servant and trust-based leadership, building and transforming organizations, and ensuring the right people are in the right seats of the bus. His various experiences have given him a diverse knowledge base that he leverages to drive innovation and growth within his organizations.

Experience

Co-Founder at Sundial (May 2020 - Present)

- Co-Founder at Inspirit.work (Feb 2020 - Dec 2020) - Chief Data Scientist at Sequoia Capital (Sep 2017 - Nov 2019) - Director of Analytics at Facebook (Nov 2014 - Mar 2017, Mar 2010 - Oct 2014) - Senior Manager of Risk Management at PayPal (Jul 2007 - Mar 2010) - Senior Research Scientist at National Weather Service/ SAIC (Jul 2003 - Jun 2007) - Faculty / Senior Scientist at Mississippi State University (Aug 2000 - Jun 2003) - Postdoctoral Fellow at Naval Research Laboratory (Feb 1999 - Jul 2000) - Wildlife Supervisor at Tristate Bird Rescue (Mar 1994 - Feb 1999)

Education

- PhD in Oceanography, Chemical and Physical from the University of Delaware (1991 - 1998) - B. Tech in Naval Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1987 - 1991) - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (1986 - 1987)