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Jay Vijayan

Founder of Tekion Corp

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Jay Vijayan is the Founder and CEO of Tekion, with a background as an executive at Tesla, VMware, and Oracle. He has a strong track record of success in enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and software development, and is actively involved in investing in and advising startups in the DeepTech, IoT, and AI sectors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Vijayan's career highlights include serving as the Chief Information Officer at Tesla and holding senior leadership roles at VMware and Oracle. He has leveraged his expertise in enterprise software and IT strategy to found and lead Tekion, while also engaging in angel and seed investing, advising, and board memberships for various startups.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and CEO

    2016 - Current

Tekion is a software development company that develops business applications on the cloud.

Raised $635,100,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group.

  • Angel/ Seed Investor, Limited Partner, Advisor and Board Member

    2010

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2018 - 2021

NIC is a digital information service provider for federal, state, and local governments.

  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)

    2012 - 2016

    As CIO, directly reporting to Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO, was responsible for building all digital and information technology systems ground-up, during the company's growth and ramp-up phase from when Tesla had nearly no revenue to when it reached an annual revenue run rate of over $5 Billion with a market capitalization of over $35 Billion.

  • Vice President, IT & Business Applications

    2012 - 2012

Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.

Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

  • Senior Director, Applications

    2009 - 2012

  • Director, Applications Development

    2007 - 2009

VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.

  • Senior Manager, Applications Development - Fusion HRMS/ HCM & Various

    2000 - 2007

    Managed Oracle Applications Architecture and Development for HRMS/HCM Products. Prior to that played various management, hands-on technical development, architecture, release and implementation roles at Oracle.

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

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