Manish Kothari

Manish Kothari, Ph.D., is the President of SRI International – an iconic Silicon Valley research nonprofit that has developed some of the most well-recognized technologies over the last 75 years, from the vacuum tube (via its team at Sarnoff, Princeton), Intuitive Surgical, Nuance, Siri and others. Prior to joining SRI, he was a serial entrepreneur with a number of successful exits, primarily in the healthcare arena.

Manish received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in biomechanical engineering from Cornell University, and was a joint post-doctoral fellow at the UC, San Francisco and UC, Berkeley. His undergraduate degree is in Aerospace Engineering is from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He holds multiple patents and is the author or co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

In addition to being on the Board of LeoLabs, he has combined his passion for aerospace and healthcare by serving on the Advisory Board of NASA-funded TRISH.