Vijay Sikka
Founder & CEO
Vijay Sikka is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sikka Software
Corporation. Under his leadership, Sikka Software has grown from a start-up to have over 35,000
practice installations and 120m patients on its platform for healthcare on the demand side and over
50 companies which have built applications on the supply side. Prior to Sikka Software, Vijay has
worked in Artificial Intelligence and decision systems for more than 25 years of experience with
large scale projects at Intel Corporation, National Institutes of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche
and UCSF affiliates. In 1996, Vijay founded IBrain Software, Inc. that used to compete with
Informatica, Hyperion and Cognos and served as its CEO until its acquisition in 1998 by Entigen
Corporation, a healthcare information company that later became part of Roche. After that Vijay
co-founded Bodha.com that was acquired by Peregrine Systems/Remedy that later became part of BMC
Software. Vijay holds an M.S. degree in EE and AI from Syracuse University, New York, pursued
doctoral studies in neurosciences at Stanford University (incomplete Ph.D), and is a Registered
Continuing Education Provider in California. He is a frequent speaker at big data, AI, healthcare,
technology and quality meetings. Vijay’s book on Maximizing ROI on Software Development was
published by Taylor and Francis International and earns him a proud royalty check every few
months.
Vijay was invited keynote speaker at the Digital Health World Conferences in 2019 and 2020, AI
Global Forum 2020 and Biohacking Congress in London in 2020. He has published and presented in many
artificial intelligence and neural network meetings and conferences including International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, SPIE, IEEE, AAAI and CHMT and the precursor of NeurIPS.
Jasprit Sandhu
Chief Financial Officer
Jasprit has over 20 years of experience building global teams, leading capital
raising, driving growth and finance operations from inception through IPO, as well as leading
financial and strategic exits. Prior to joining Sikka, Jasprit served as VP of Finance at Emergent
Technology Holdings, an international block-chain FinTech focused on payments from emerging
countries using a proprietary gold backed digital token, where he was responsible for building up
the international finance and tax organization. Jasprit was a VP of Finance at Redbubble Inc., a
global online art / consumer products marketplace, where he led the team from inception through an
IPO. Prior to Redbubble, Jasprit served in various financial leadership roles in the Silicon Valley.
He is a California CPA, who began in career at Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jasprit
graduated from the Haas School of Business from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kelly Slavitt
General Counsel & Head of Corporate Development
Kelly has over 20 years of experience working as a strategic partner to
proactively drive growth using the law, managing risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving M&A
transactions, and scaling up or down as needed by the business. She served as General Counsel for
various Founder-led Seed and Series A startups in the healthcare and tech space, The American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), General Electric, and Reckitt Benckiser
LLC. Kelly was legally trained at the law firms of Skadden Arps (New York), Allens Arthur Robinson
(Australia), and Thelen Reid & Priest (New York and San Francisco). A lifelong learner in and out of
the classroom, Kelly graduated from Penn State, New York University, Brooklyn Law School, and
Cardozo Law School and has certificates in business management from Boston University, New York
University, and The Securities Institute.
Sally Takemoto
Vice President of Operations and HR
Sally Takemoto has worked as VP of Human Resources for Network General Corporation
and Proxim, Inc. and held management positions at Vitalink Communications Corporation and NCR. She
holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from Santa Clara
University. She has extensive HR and Facilities management experience for companies of 1,000
employees in over 20 countries.
Michael Bingham
Vice President, Customer Success
Michael Bingham has more than 20 years of extensive experience in customer success leadership, having worked in the tech space with the likes of Toshiba, Canon, Dell and DTS. By harnessing a vision-driven approach to decision making, strategic planning, and tactical implementation, Michael is deft at maximizing business development, building relationships, increasing revenue through a sincere and dedicated focus towards optimal client satisfaction and retention. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in understanding customer needs, finding ways to improve both relationships and processes—solving issues, developing, maintaining and executing strategic campaigns within his customer success departments. Never willing to settle for an ordinary level of accomplishment, his teams have routinely delivered net renewal rates (NRR) of 132% and a logo retention rate (LRR) of 97.9% or better. He graduated from the Brimhall School of Communications at BYU with an emphasis in public relations and international business.
As a lover of the outdoors, Michael’s passions lead him and his family into the mountains where skiing, mountain biking, hiking and boating is plentiful.
Prasad Khandat
Head of Engineering
Prasad is the Head of engineering at Sikka. He is responsible for Sikka’s technical strategy and global oversight of all engineering development and operations teams. Prasad Joined Sikka in 2014 as a Software engineer where he led Sikka’s flagship product “Practice Optimizer”. Prasad has extensive experience in software engineering and lifecycle. Prasad has won Sikka’s internal hackathon competition for consecutive two years. He has been awarded as the best performer for his excellent work at Sikka multiple times. Prior to Sikka Prasad worked for four years at iBrain Decision Software, India as Sr. Software Engineer. Prasad did his masters in computer science from the University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Sanjay Rajak
Head of Technology and API
Sanjay leads technology and API development at sikka.ai. His experience includes real time high performing, high availability, and high reliability API platform processing billions of transactions. Sanjay received his bachelor's degree in Information Technology from C.U. Shah College of Engineering & Technology in India. He continued his studies with courses at Stanford and also received a postgraduate diploma in Information Technology from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies in India.
Andrew Ross
Product Management Leader
Andrew is a Product Management Leader with an affinity for helping companies and their customers succeed by creating engaging, effective solutions that allow users to achieve their goals. With a background in Product Design, Andrew is constantly seeking out areas of opportunity to enhance Sikka’s formidable product line and drive innovation.
Outside of work, Andrew enjoys watching motorsports, growing carnivorous plants, art, and spending time with his family.
Brian Wu
Marketing Leader
Brian is a marketing professional passionate about helping companies drive growth through strategic marketing initiatives. With an eye for design and a penchant for analytics, he sits at the crossroads of creativity and data to construct essential marketing strategies and meaningful content.
Brian holds a BS in Marketing from Santa Clara University and draws upon his background as a content and product marketer and his affinity for technology to drive company growth. He excels in collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, sales, and operational teams, crafting and executing strategies that boost growth and revenue.
In his free time, Brian enjoys cooking, watching sports, and staying active.
Xi Wang
Data Science Leader
Xi Wang is the Data Science Leader at sikka.ai and holds an MS in Data Science from the University of the Pacific and a BS in Economics from Miami University. Prior to sikka.ai, Xi worked for Charles Schwab as a contractor data scientist.
