Swaminathan Sekar is the VP of Investments at Gradiant Corp, based in Abu Dhabi.

Swami brings almost 20 years of experience as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor in the US, Singapore and UAE. He was a product engineer at AMD, held sales and BD roles at Intel and VMWare, and was head of data platforms and models at Liveperson. He co-founded Winimy AI, a voice and conversational AI company that supports brand customer engagement for customers like Singtel, Total, DBS, and Dominos. He was also an investor at Intel Capital and more recently an operating partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an early stage fund and accelerator.

He has a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from NTU and an electrical engineering Masters and MBA from MIT.