Jay Vijayan

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States26 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder and CEO of Tekion, transforming the automotive industry.
CIO at Tesla, built digital platforms fueling $5B revenue.
Led product development at VMware and Oracle during growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with extensive leadership experience in technology transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareBoard LevelIt Strategy

Other Skills

SaaSCross-functional Team LeadershipProgram ManagementOracle ApplicationsBusiness IntelligenceSOAERPData CenterDatabasesOracleSoftware DevelopmentSecurityVMwareProject ManagementIT Management

About

Entrepreneur, inventor, business leader and investor. Founder and CEO of Tekion Corp, a technology company building and delivering world’s best business applications on the cloud and is currently focused on transforming the automotive industry. Proven experience in building simple and highly scalable technology platforms and solutions that help transform, scale businesses and enable highest level of operational efficiencies. Prior to Tekion, as the Chief Information Officer of Tesla Inc. for over 4 years, hired and led a global team, which built and scaled Tesla's digital and information platform from ground-up, enabling and fueling the company's hyper-growth phase. Before joining Tesla, led the Business Applications Development group for VMware during its significant accelerated growth phase. Preceding VMware, led product development teams at Oracle for over 7 years.

Experience

26 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

16 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Nic inc.

Director Board Of Directors

Jun 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · United States

NIC was acquired by Tyler Technologies (TYL) in 2021

Board Level

Tekion corp

Founder and CEO

Feb 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSIT StrategyCross-functional Team Leadership

Tesla

2 roles

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Promoted

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs

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.

IT StrategyCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareProgram Management

Vice President, IT & Business Applications

Jan 2012 – Oct 2012 · 9 mos

Multiple startups and well known brands

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

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 5 mos

Vmware

2 roles

Senior Director, Applications

Sep 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Director, Applications Development

Sep 2007 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs

Oracle

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

Apr 2000 – Sep 2007 · 7 yrs 5 mos

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.