Vinaya Sathyanarayana is a seasoned organizational leader with over 30 years of expertise in startups, midsize and large organizations, and research labs. He has bootstrapped and grown Multi Location Offshore Delivery Centers of Fortune 500 companies to more than 1000+ associates. Vinaya's experience spans product companies specializing in Cloud Native, Analytics, AI/Machine Learning, and Application Security as well as FinTech/BFSI domains relating to Payments, Mortgage, Lending, and Real Estate Tech.

Vinaya is recognized as a venture builder, having created and grown Offshore Delivery Centers (ODC), Centre of Excellence (COE), Research Labs, and Startups. He has a proven senior leadership track record in all aspects of setting up, scaling, and running ODCs and COEs including Vision, Strategy, technology direction, mentoring, governance models, planning & budgeting, vendor & contractor relationships, staffing, recruitment, retention, university relationships, and delivery. Vinaya has expertise in bootstrapping new groups/COEs in areas of Analytics, Technology Research, GIS, and ETL.

Vinaya has been a Digital Transformation Advisor for a set of industries across JAPAC. He has diverse experience in large, mid-sized and startup environments. He has demonstrated CXO level engagement to acquire, retain and grow the businesses. Vinaya has expertise in establishing and leading world-class global product engineering organizations. He has successfully delivered products through hands-on knowledge of micro-service architectures, latest technologies, deep understanding of domain, customer ecosystem and life cycle of product development. Vinaya has experience in building Internet Scale AI/ML enabled Cloud Native Applications for the API Economy with Privacy and Security Built.

Vinaya is not just a leader but an innovator, with a number of granted/published patents under his name along with several publications and invention disclosures. He is a respected leader in highly matrixed corporate environments who has managed large outsourcing teams spanning numerous technologies. Adding to his impressive qualifications he has been teaching as a Visiting Faculty for Post Graduate Programs at BITS Pilani, NMIMS, IIT Delhi, IIIT Lucknow. He is also passionate about providing opportunities to challenged people.