Sanjay Srivastava

Sanjay Srivastava is the Founder and CEO of Vocareum, a platform that enables hands-on learning through secure virtual labs and cloud sandboxes. An entrepreneur with roots in semiconductor design, he co-founded Denali Software and led it to a $315M acquisition by Cadence Design Systems, where he later served as SVP of R&D. He founded Vocareum in 2012 with a clear focus on making experiential learning accessible, safe, and scalable. Under his leadership, Vocareum has supported programs such as AWS Academy and helped deliver real-world cloud learning to more than 2 million learners. More recently, his work has focused on how AI can personalize education at scale, including AI tutors and knowledge-graph approaches that model learner progress, with implementations such as UC San Diego’s GPS program. He is also Chairman of SKS Capital and holds degrees from IIT-Kanpur and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.