Visiting Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Ashoka University
MS Harvard UniversityNikhil Sud is a technology professional with 10 years of work experience at diverse firms, from startups to multinationals, across sectors and geographies.
He holds a BS in Management (with IT) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MS in Computational Science & Engineering from Harvard University. While at MIT he was able to teach in schools in Italy, China and Israel, spent a semester studying abroad in Paris, and was involved with a biotech startup in Germany.
He began his career in the US with GE’s Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP), and later moved to the Bay Area as an early member of the product team at ad-tech startup LiveRamp, which was acquired during his tenure. Following this, he was a founding team member at Bangalore-based CoWrks, where he set up and led technology product development and IT services teams, and scaled them to support 25 coworking centres pan-India. CoWrks was acquired by Brookfield.
During the pandemic he joined ThoughtWorks in Singapore as a consultant to the Singapore Government on a healthcare mobile app with 2.5 million users. Most recently he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Bangalore, where he was the product leader for a proprietary internal platform that was selected as a flagship project of the firmwide Digital Strategy Office.