Dheeraj Pandey

Dheeraj Pandey is an Indian-born American businessman and philanthropist.[1][2] He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of DevRev, a company he co-founded with Manoj Agarwal, since 2020.[3]

Previously, Pandey served as the CEO of Nutanix, a company he co-founded with Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, from 2009 to 2020.[4]

Early life and education

Dheeraj Pandey was born in Bihar, India.[5][6] His father was a government employee, and his mother was a teacher.[7] He obtained a BS in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1997.[8][9] Later that year, he moved to the United States and earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.[8][9][10]

Pandey is married and has three children.[7]

Career

Pandey started his career with Trilogy as a software developer.[11] Later in his career, he took on various roles, such as at Oracle Corporation as senior manager for software development, where he managed the storage engine group. He later held the positions of Director and Vice-President of Engineering at Aster Data Systems, which is now Teradata.[9][5]

In 2009, Pandey, along with Ajeet Singh and Mohit Aron, co-founded Nutanix, a cloud computing company based in San Jose, California.[12][5][7] The company went public in September 2016, listing on the Nasdaq.[13][14][15] He served as Nutanix CEO until 2020, when he retired.[16][17] During his tenure, Nutanix transitioned from hardware to a software-focused firm in the hyper-converged infrastructure domain.[10][18][19]

In 2020, Pandey started a new company, co-founding a CRM company, DevRev, with Manoj Agarwal.[20][21] He serves as the CEO of DevRev. In 2024, on raising it's Series A round, DevRev reached unicorn status.[22]

In 2022, Pandey, along with his wife Swapna, gave a gift of $10 million to the University of Texas at Austin for the development of personalized medicine.[23]