Sanjay Manandhar

Sanjay has 20+ years of experience building software companies from the ground up. He is frequently involved in product development, technology roadmap and strategy, and intellectual property management. He started his software engineering/product development career at Sun Microsystems, Siemens, NYNEX, and other high-tech firms.

Sanjay founded and led Aerva, a cloud-based platform to manage digital displays globally from airports to convention centers to universities to 30+ US Navy bases/shipyard (for employee communications), Anheuser-Busch (for off-premise retail), many digital out-of-home companies (for media sales), including at Times Square. The company was sold in 2015 with approximately 10,000 end-points managed in a SaaS model. Sanjay also founded Datalink, which brought Internet to Nepal through two Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a Master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab, and an MBA from INSEAD in France.