Pankaj Kedia is a globally recognized AI thought-leader as a VC & angel investor, Chief AI Officer, CXO advisor & consultant, adjunct MBA faculty, and board member. Previously, Pankaj played pivotal roles across a series of businesses in the Internet, Mobile, and Cloud technology eras at Intel and Qualcomm.
As the Chief AI Officer and Board Member for Biossmann, a established leader in the healthcare sector across Mexico, Pankaj Kedia is responsible for leading the company's global expansion and transformation into a medical solutions powerhouse. As the Founder and Managing Partner of 2468 Ventures, he has directly invested in 125+ early-stage and Series A startups across silicon, systems, software, and services. Pankaj is a partner at multiple VC firms and angel groups where he chairs the AI committees, teaches AI to MBA students at the University of San Diego, sits on multiple public, private, and non-profit boards of AI companies, and is a sought-after CXO advisor around AI and technology topics. Pankaj has a knack for spotting trends and has been an early investor in multiple public (AMD, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia) and private (Anthropic, Figure, Elemind, Groq, Humane, Magic, OpenAI, Personal AI) AI companies.
Previously, as a tech intrapreneur over the last 3 decades, Pankaj played leadership roles in incubating and growing a series of new businesses at Intel and Qualcomm. He is credited for driving the growth of the Internet with laptop PCs, establishing mobile Internet with smartphones, and capitalizing on cloud expansion with IOT and wearable devices. Having lived through these technology revolutions, Pankaj is now bringing the benefits of AI to society-at-large and is focused at the intersection of AI and high-growth verticals such as healthcare, education, industrials, consumer, and energy. He is a lifelong learner with degrees from the Univ of Michigan, Wharton, Stanford, and IIT Roorkee. Pankaj has worked in 25+ countries across 4 continents as a global citizen, has shipped products to 100+ countries, and is committed to using AI and technologies to positively impact the future.