Jeyandran Venugopal

Jeyandran Venugopal (Jey) is an innovator and product thinker. His rich technology leadership experience spans more than 2 decades of pioneering work across both US and India in the consumer internet technology domain. Jey is currently the Chief Product and Technology officer for Flipkart. In his current role he leads a several thousand strong multi-disciplinary team spanning user research and design, product management, engineering, data science, corporate IT and information security. Jey has worked across several technology domains such as ecommerce, payments tech, cloud computing, search engineering, digital media platforms and others with companies such as Amazon, Yahoo and Myntra before his current role. Jey has also been a health tech entrepreneur and launched one of the earliest private telemedicine services in the country which was then subsequently sold to the largest epharmacy companies at that time. Jey holds a Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Prior to that he did a Master’s degree in Mechanical engineering with a focus on computational fluid dynamics from the same University. During his time at UIUC he held a research assistantship as a student consultant with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where he had the opportunity to work on cutting edge supercomputing clusters and helping and advising research groups and commercial firms around the country who were using NCSA’s compute facilities at that time. Jey did his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. Jey has a passion for all things technology and loves advising, mentoring and investing in deep technology and innovative startups.