Sanjay Manandhar
CEO, Zifino Sanjay Manandhar is a Cambridge, MA-based tech entrepreneur who brought Internet to Nepal in 1994 where he remains actively involved in entrepreneurship and promotion of the arts.
About this speaker
Sanjay Manandhar is a Cambridge, MA-based tech entrepreneur who brought Internet to Nepal in 1994 where he remains actively involved in entrepreneurship and promotion of the arts.
Prior to founding Zifino (zifino.com), a cybersecurity company, Sanjay founded and was CEO of Wicket (wicketsoft.com), a computer vision company he co-founded to make facial biometrics with opt-in. Sanjay hired computer vision PhDs and led a team of engineers to develop facial authentication products for sports & entertainment venues, corporate offices and airports to faciltate facial ticketing, facial access control and facial payments.
Sanjay was founder and CEO of Aerva (aerva.com), a SaaS software platform that managed content on 10,000 digital displays, for advertising, employee communications or entertainment, from Times Square billboards to thousands of Anheuser-Busch 7-foot digital cooler doors, displays in 33+ US Naval bases, universities, convention centers, airports and transit hubs. Sanjay founded, grew and sold Aerva in 2015 without raising any outside capital.
From 1996 to 1999, Sanjay picked technology stocks in London for a fund with GBP 12 billion under management. Sanjay’s early career as an engineer was at Sun Microsystems and Olivetti in Silicon Valley, NYNEX and Siemens in Cambridge.
Sanjay has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and Master’s from MIT Media Lab and MBA from INSEAD. He holds four patents in computer vision and one patent in content management systems.
Sanjay serves on the Advancement Committee of UWC in New Mexico and is also an avid mountain biker and a trekker in the Himalayas and around the world.
