A month after announcing a $240 million investment led by TPG, Thoma Bravo and Goldman Sachs, real-time visibility provider project44 announced Vivek Kundra would become the company’s chief operating officer, leveraging experience that includes leading the country’s technology initiatives.
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In an interview with FreightWaves, Kundra explained his fascination with supply chains, his past work with customer experience management software Sprinklr and service as the first chief information officer of the United States and how he plans to incorporate those experiences in his new role at Chicago-based project44.
Questions and answers were edited for clarity and length.
FREIGHTWAVES: Your two most recent working experiences have been as executive vice president of Salesforce.com and chief operating officer of Sprinklr. What attracted you to taking a role specific to the supply chain industry?
KUNDRA: “The global supply chain industry is the economic engine to everything. Today you cannot watch the news or read the newspaper without hearing about the challenges of the supply chain crisis. When you see this, look at where we’re headed and see the massive technological transformation the industry is going through, you realize you can have a huge impact on improving the state of the world.
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