Vivek Kundra

Vivek Kundra
1st Chief Information Officer of the United States
In office
March 5, 2009 – August 4, 2011
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byKaren Evans (Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology)
Succeeded bySteven VanRoekel
Personal details
Born (1974-10-09) October 9, 1974 (age 50)
New Delhi, India
EducationUniversity of Maryland, College Park (BS)
University of Maryland, University College (MS)

Vivek Kundra (born October 9, 1974) is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March, 2009 to August, 2011 under President Barack Obama.[1] He is currently the chief operating officer at Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.[2]

He previously served in D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's cabinet as the District's chief technology officer and in Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's cabinet as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology.

  1. ^ "President Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer". whitehouse.gov. 5 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-05 – via National Archives.
  2. ^ "Our Nation's First Federal CIO". whitehouse.gov. 16 June 2011 – via National Archives.