Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Vikram Verma, Vik verma
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Vik Verma became Chief Executive Officer of 8x8 in September 2013. As a member of the 8x8 Board of Directors since January 2012, Verma was instrumental in working with management to define the Company’s strategic plan for continued profitable growth through global expansion and ongoing investment in innovative unified and mobile communications
services. From October 2008 – August 2013, Verma was President of Strategic Venture Development for Lockheed Martin. In that role, he successfully identified and executed opportunities for monetizing existing Lockheed Martin technologies and programs in new global commercial markets through collaborative technology incubators, intellectual property portfolio licensing and strategic partnerships with international corporations. From 2006-2008, he was the President of the IS&GS Savi Group, a Lockheed Martin technology and information services division providing real-time supply chain management and security solutions for government and commercial markets worldwide. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Savi Technology, Inc. (Savi), a leader in RFID-based tracking and security solutions and a pioneer in cloud-based managed service offerings that was acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2006. Verma began his career at Savi in 1990 as a Design Engineer and became Chief Operation Officer in 1994 and President & CEO in 1997. Verma holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, an M.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering, and the graduate degree of Engineer in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He has been granted eight patents and has won numerous accolades, including being named one of 40 “Technology Pioneers” by the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland in 2003. In addition, he has attended the AEA executive management program for CEOs at Harvard Business School, the AEA Executive Institute for High Technology Executives at Stanford University, the Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Executives program at the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), the Stanford Law School Directors’ College, and the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee programs at Harvard Business School.




