Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Jay Vijayan is the Chief Information Officer for Tesla Motors. Jay and his organization are responsible for business applications, infrastructure, network, security and systems operations for all of Tesla including the support of engineering, manufacturing, corporate business groups and the global sales, marketing and service business groups.

Jay champions IT as an enabler for Tesla and works with all the company’s groups to identify opportunities, structure, develop and deliver systems and solutions. Jay brings more than 17 years of IT, Applications Development and Management experience. Before joining Tesla Jay was the Sr. Director, IT Business Applications for VMware. Jay was leading the Applications Development of all business applications for VMware during the extreme accelerated growth of the company from being 700 Million to close to 4 Billion annual revenue during the period 2007-2012. Jay’s team developed and delivered/implemented almost all of the business applications including the web portal for VMware during this accelerated growth period. Prior to that Jay was in different Applications Management positions at Oracle. Jay is proven and specialized in efficiently operating and delivering sustainable IT solutions in an extremely faced paced, high growth organizations and in turning around large IT programs and organizations successfully.

Jay has a Master of Science degree from University of Madras (Now University of Chennai), Chennai, India. Jay also has several industry recognized technology certifications and patent for tech inventions.