Sanjay Manandhar

Sanjay Manandhar is a Cambridge, MA-based tech entrepreneur who brought Internet to Nepal in 1994 where he remains actively involved in entrepreneurship and promotion of the arts.

Currently, Sanjay is CEO and co-founder of Zifino (zifino.com), a cybersecurity company, that uses AI to assess, prioritize and offer remediation guidance for cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an increasingly diffused and expanding attack surface. Prior to Zifino, Sanjay co-founded and was CEO of Wicket (wicketsoft.com), a computer vision company for opt-in-based facial biometrics for access control, payments and ticketing.

Sanjay was founder and CEO of Aerva (aerva.com), a enterprise software platform that managed content on 10,000 digital displays in 6 countries, for advertising, employee communications or entertainment, from Times Square billboards to thousands of Anheuser-Busch 7-foot digital cooler doors, displays in 33+ US Naval bases, universities, convention centers, airports and transit hubs. Sanjay founded, grew and sold Aerva in 2015 without raising any outside capital.

From 1996 to 1999, Sanjay picked technology stocks in London for a fund with GBP 12 billion under management. Sanjay’s early career as a software engineer was at Sun Microsystems and Olivetti in Silicon Valley, NYNEX and Siemens in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sanjay has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and Master’s from MIT Media Lab and MBA from INSEAD. He holds four patents in computer vision and one patent in content management system.

Sanjay serves on the Advancement Committee of UWC in New Mexico and is also an avid mountain biker and a trekker in the Himalayas and around the world.