Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Vivek Ranadive is the Founder and Managing General Partner of Bow Capital, Owner, Chairman, CEO, and Governor of Sacramento Kings, and Chairman, Founder, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of BowX Acquisition Corp.

Ranadivé is a non-executive director of Nielsen Holdings and has served on the Supervisory Board since August 1, 2012. Since its inception in 1997, Vivek Ranadivé has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TIBCO Software Inc. Vivek Ranadivé founded Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., the predecessor to TIBCO Software, in 1985. Prior to founding TIBCO, Vivek Ranadivé was president and founder of a UNIX consulting company. Previously, he held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit, and Fortune Systems.

Vivek Ranadivé is a frequent presenter on such topics as the future of integration, enabling real-time business, and unleashing the power of information across enterprises to become more competitive. Vivek Ranadivé earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He received both a Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.