Nitin Bhandari

Nitin Bhandari has held various leadership roles throughout their career. Nitin is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Planera, Inc since November 2021. Prior to this, they served as the VP of Strategic Initiatives at Life360 from October 2020 to October 2021. Before joining Life360, Nitin was the Chief Executive Officer at Zenlabs, Inc, which was acquired by Life360 in March 2019. Nitin held this position from January 2017 to October 2020. Nitin's earlier experience includes serving as the CEO and Co-founder of Skyfire from 2006 to 2017, where they developed leading solutions for image and video optimization, as well as the Chief Product Officer and Co-founder. Nitin also worked as the SVP of Products, Consumer Apps at Opera Software from March 2013 to January 2017. Nitin began their career at Extreme Networks in 1999 as a Sr Manager of Advanced Development, where they worked until April 2006.

Nitin Bhandari obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1999. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Industrial Electronics from Bharati Vidyapeeth, graduating in 1998. Before their university education, Nitin attended Daly College from 1982 to 1994, although specific degree and field of study information is not available for this period.