Sridhar Vembu
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Zoho Corporation
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Sridhar Vembu has built one of India’s most important software companies through long-term engineering, independence from external capital and distributed talent development. As co-founder and chief scientist of Zoho Corporation, he is focused on technology and research at a time when AI is reshaping software.
Zoho serves global customers across a wide suite of business software products, built largely in-house. Vembu’s approach to AI is cautious, engineering-led and skeptical of hype. He has also pushed innovation outside major metros through R&D centers in smaller towns.
His profile reflects a model of Indian technology building centered on product depth, talent development and institutional independence.

