Aneel Bhusri

In 2005, Bhusri co-founded Workday, a provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, with his long-time business partner Dave Duffield. He served as its board chair from 2012 to 2014, prior to his appointment as CEO.

At Stanford, Bhusri has been an active volunteer for Stanford GSB, including as a member of the GSB Trust. In addition, he and his wife, Allison (MBA ’03), are strong supporters of the GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Stanford Athletics.

Prior to founding Workday, Bhusri held a variety of senior positions at PeopleSoft beginning in 2003, including as senior vice president responsible for product strategy, business development and marketing. He was also vice chair of the PeopleSoft board from 1999 through 2004. Previously, he worked as an associate at Norwest Venture Partners and as a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley.

Bhusri is also an advisory partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm that he has been associated with since 1999. He is currently a member of the boards of Intel and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He previously served on the boards of Data Domain, Pure Storage, Okta and Cloudera.

Bhusri earned his undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University and his MBA in 1993 from Stanford. He is also a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He and Allison live in San Francisco with their two young children.