Rahul Ponnala

Rahul Ponnala is the co-founder and CEO of Granica, an AI data infrastructure company focused on helping enterprises optimize, govern, and secure data for large-scale AI and analytics workloads. Prior to founding Granica, Rahul held engineering and leadership roles at companies including Google and Nutanix, where he worked on large-scale distributed systems and enterprise infrastructure technologies. He is recognised for his expertise in AI data management, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning systems, with a focus on making enterprise data more efficient, privacy-aware, and AI-ready.