Aneel Bhusri

Aneel Bhusri is the CEO and co-founder of Workday, a Cloud provider of HCM and Financial Mgmt solutions for mid to large enterprises. Bhusri is a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the enterprise software industry.

Bhusri started his technology career in the early 1990s at PeopleSoft, where he served in a variety of senior roles including SVP Product Strategy & Marketing. From 1999 through 2004, Bhusri was Vice Chairman of PeopleSoft, serving on the board of directors through the takeover of the company by Oracle in 2004.

In 2005, Bhusri started Workday with his long-time friend and business partner Dave Duffield, the founder and former Chairman and CEO of PeopleSoft. Since its founding, Workday has grown rapidly and has become the leading provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financials applications for medium and large enterprises worldwide.

As an Advisory Partner at Greylock, Bhusri has been an active investor in cloud technologies, with an emphasis on applications, data center infrastructure and middleware. Bhusri was the lead investor and Chairman of Data Domain, a leading storage provider that was acquired by EMC for $2.4 B in 2009. He also was an investor and board member of Outlooksoft (acquired by SAP), Polyserve (acquired by HP) and Perfigo (acquired by Cisco). In addition to Workday, Bhusri currently serves on the boards of Cloudera, Okta, Pure Storage, and Intel.

Bhusri has been named to the Forbes Midas List multiple times. He is also a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Bhusri received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.