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Veritone Announces Appointment of Nayaki Nayyar to Board of Directors (MESA)
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Veritone today announced the appointment of Nayaki Nayyar to its Board of Directors. Nayyar was selected based on her technical expertise in enterprise cloud software and IoT technologies, and her extensive experience in leading large teams in complex global organizations through acquisitions, technology transitions and growth phases.
Nayyar is currently President of Digital Services Management at BMC Software, where she is leading the transformation of many market leading product lines into the cognitive era. Prior to joining BMC, Nayyar served as general manager and global head of SAP’s Internet of Things (IoT) division.
She also held strategy and senior management positions with SAP’s Cloud business unit, where she drove significant growth in the company’s Cloud, CRM and mobile business units while managing large teams globally. Nayyar gained tremendous industry experience during her tenure at Shell and Valero, and was instrumental in Valero’s rapid growth into the largest independent refining company in North America. She holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University (India) and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston.
“We are very pleased to welcome Nayaki to Veritone’s Board of Directors and look forward to having her share her deep enterprise software knowledge and insights with our team to help us continue to advance the adoption of our artificial intelligence technology platform,” said Chad Steelberg, Veritone’s Chairman and CEO. “Nayaki’s contributions as a highly skilled technologist and general manager, coupled with her passion for the vision and mission of our company, make her a fantastic addition to our Board and will undoubtedly enhance our ongoing efforts to expand our best-in-class artificial intelligence applications and services worldwide.”
