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Sandy Venugopal is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years of experience in IT leadership and digital transformation. She is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at CoreWeave – a fast-growing AI cloud infrastructure company – where she leads the company’s IT strategy and digital transformation initiatives.

Previously, she served as CIO at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne and Uber Technologies and held key leadership roles at LinkedIn. Venugopal is recognized for her ability to scale global operations, drive enterprise innovation, and foster cross-functional collaboration. She also serves on the Board of Directors at The Adecco Group.

Connect with Sandy on: Linkedin

Career highlights 

2024
Chief Information Officer
2023
Chief Information Officer
2020
Chief Information Officer
2010
Sr. Director of Strategic planning and Delivery
2005
Consultant

Claim to fame

AI-driven security at SentinelOne

Sandy led investments in generative AI to automate threat detection and response. By leveraging internal logs and predictive models, her team empowered SOC analysts with actionable insights. This helped reduce mean time to detect and improve incident triage.

Facilitating AI enterprise knowledge discovery

She deployed AI search and knowledge discovery tool, Glean, at Uber and SentinelOne to enhance enterprise search, streamlining knowledge discovery and collaboration. These deployments improved information accessibility and boosted employee productivity across departments.

Scaling IT at Uber

During Uber’s hyper-growth phase, Sandy scaled IT infrastructure and tools globally, ensuring operational excellence across regions. She implemented automation and self-service solutions to support rapid onboarding and global expansion.

Sandy’s AI philosophy

Sandy Venugopal
CIO, CoreWeave

“We wanted to be smart about not trying AI in every single area... Instead, [we look] at a portfolio of business areas in which to try AI.” Source

“Having built and delivered strategies to scale the processes, systems, and teams to support international customers, expansion of product and services, and building out a global team are experiences I’ve drawn on for this role.” Source

“There’s been a lot of investments on our product to really utilize the capabilities around look at anomalies in all of the data you have around security logs, access logs, where do you find those weird things happening or potential threats, and how can you generate the right prompts or next actions for your security operations center (SOC) analysts to take?” Source

Awards and accolades

Top 100 Executive Women in Tech to Watch – WomenTech Network, 2023
ORBIE Awards Finalist – Bay Area CIO (Enterprise Category), 2024
Board Appointment – The Adecco Group, 2023

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