CIA picks Indian-origin IT professional Nand Mulchandani as its first Chief Intelligence Officer

Nand Mulchandani, an Indian-American Silicon Valley IT professional who studied at a Delhi college, has been appointed the Central Intelligence Company’s (CIA) first-ever Chief Technology Officer. The announcement for the coveted place was made by Director William J Burns on social media. Based on the CIA, Mulchandani has over 25 years of experience working in Silicon Valley.

“CIA Director William J. Burns appoints Nand Mulchandani as CIA’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With greater than 25 years of expertise, Mr. Mulchandani will make sure the Company is leveraging cutting-edge improvements to additional CIA’s mission,” the CIA stated in a tweet.

“With greater than 25 years expertise working in Silicon Valley in addition to the Division of Protection (DoD), Mr. Mulchandani brings substantial personal sector, startup, and authorities experience to CIA,” Central Intelligence Company (CIA) stated in a press release on Friday.

“Since my affirmation, I’ve prioritized specializing in expertise and the brand new CTO place is an important a part of that effort. I’m delighted Nand has joined our workforce and can carry his in depth expertise to this important new position,” stated Director Burns.

“I’m honoured to affix the CIA on this position and look ahead to working with the Company’s unbelievable workforce of technologists and area consultants who already ship world-class intelligence and capabilities to assist construct a complete expertise technique that delivers thrilling capabilities working intently with trade and companions,” stated Mulchandani.

Previous to becoming a member of the CIA, Mulchandani most just lately served because the CTO and Appearing Director of DoD’s Joint Synthetic Intelligence Heart. He additionally co-founded and was CEO of a number of profitable startups- Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Determina (acquired by VMWare), OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), and ScaleXtreme (acquired by Citrix).

He has a level in Pc Science and Math from Cornell, a Grasp of Science diploma in Administration from Stanford, and a Grasp in Public Administration diploma from Harvard.