Leadership
Veena Nair
Founder and Principal
- Industries
- Retail and CPG, financial services, technology
- Previously
- Google, Endava, BT Global Services, LexisNexis
- Education
- MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Dean's List). BS, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Mumbai
- Based in
- San Francisco Bay Area
Veena Nair is an enterprise AI executive who builds AI that runs the business, not just the demo.
She has built enterprise AI platforms and governance from a standing start, taken AI systems into production across thousands of retail locations, chaired an AI governance council and reported to the board on AI strategy, risk and governance.
Before that she was at Google, shaping product strategy for conversational commerce and leading Google Cloud's AI and data go-to-market for global banks and insurers. She founded HelpfulGenie, first as a conversational AI platform for retail, and went on to run a Google Cloud practice across North America. Earlier roles at BT Global Services, LexisNexis and BMC Software gave her a grounding in P&L ownership, strategy and hands-on delivery.