Nand Mulchandani

Nand Mulchandani is Chief Technology Officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Mulchandani brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry as a serial entrepreneur and senior executive in the enterprise infrastructure and security software industries to his government service to help transform DoD’s adoption of next-generation AI and software technologies.

Most recently, Mr. Mulchandani studied at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He remains a non-resident fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Market Development and Strategy for Citrix, a leading provider of desktop virtualization and networking infrastructure. He joined Citrix through its acquisition of ScaleXtreme, where he was the CEO and co-founder. Prior to ScaleXtreme, he was the CEO, co-founder, and senior executive of a number of technology startups and companies.

Mr. Mulchandani started his career at Sun Microsystems as a compiler architect and holds a patent on dynamic code generation. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in computer science and mathematics from Cornell University, a master of science degree in management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a master of public administration degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University