Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Zoho Corporation, has built one of the world’s most successful bootstrapped software companies, proving that global scale can be achieved without external funding. Under his leadership, Zoho surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue while serving more than 100 million users worldwide. An IIT Madras graduate with a PhD from Princeton University and a Padma Shri awardee, Vembu has championed rural talent development through Zoho University and promoted self-reliant innovation through Made-in-India technology products. As a member of the National Security Advisory Board, he is recognized as a Technology Icon advancing India’s global software leadership.
