Nand Mulchandani has announced on LinkedIn Wednesday that he has stepped down as chief technology officer of the CIA.
Mulchandani officially departed the agency on June 21, exactly three years after assuming the role in 2022. He also revealed that he is returning to the private sector after spending the last six years in public service.
Who Is Nand Mulchandani?
The outgoing CIA CTO is a one-time Wash100 Award winner who served as CTO and acting director of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Before joining the public sector, he served as vice president of strategy and market development at Citrix, where he developed strategies and expanded businesses for the company’s networking business unit.
The self-described “serial entrepreneur” co-founded and served as CEO of ScaleXtreme, a company that specializes in cloud-based systems management and automation, and OpenDNS, which offered recursive DNS infrastructure services. Mulchandani also worked at VMware as part of the security product management and marketing team.
Before that, the seasoned executive co-founded Determina, where he held various leadership roles including CEO and VP of marketing and business development. He co-founded and served as CTO and VP of product management at Oblix. Mulchandani started his private career in 1991 as a compiler architect at Sun Microsystems.
