Aruna Viswanathan
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, AlphaX Decision Sciences
Aruna is the Chief Operating Officer and a Co-Founder of AlphaX Decision Sciences, a company that provides AI native software to the upstream oil and gas industry. Ms Viswanathan has over 25 years of experience in various roles including as an engineer, venture fund advisor, technology accelerator executive, private equity investor, business owner, and family office CIO/CFO. Prior to AlphaX, Aruna was the Chief Underwriting Officer and Co-Founder for Clearspring Capital Group which had multiple exits to Fortune 500 companies.
Ms. Viswanathan served a five-year term on the Texas Emerging Technology Fund Committee, was a past Director of the Houston Angel Network and was the Vice-President and Director of Operations for the Houston Technology Center. Prior to her work in operations and finance, Ms. Viswanathan worked at AMD and Motorola's Wireless Signal Processing Division. She currently serves on the board of directors of Industrial Tech (NASDAQ: ITAC) and on the board of the UT Innovation Center, Ecosphere Ventures and the Houston Chapter of TiE, a global entrepreneurship organization.
Ms. Viswanathan holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Rice University.