Operator, Executive, Builder, Advisor, Investor
CEO (3x), Public Company Chairman (2x), Public Company Board Director (6x), Advisor and/or Investor (100x), Technologist, Coder, Futurist | Fortune 500 and High Growth Companies
Rahul Mewawalla has held leadership roles with technology companies across global Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups, such as Yahoo!, General Electric Company, and Nokia Corporation. He has also served as CEO, President, and Chairman across Nasdaq-listed public companies. Other operating roles include head of platforms and technology businesses, amongst other business and technology leadership roles, and as a public company board director. His experience spans industry-leading platforms, products, and infrastructure across transformative and growth enterprise and consumer businesses.
Rahul has extensive technology, business, and innovation expertise and served as an Advisor to Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, Senior Advisor to the San Francisco Mayor’s Office on Innovation, Chair of Venture Capital Task Force Committee on Services and Systems, and advised the MIT-Stanford Venture Lab. He has received several awards and honors for technology, innovation, and business such as “Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Innovators,” “Top 40 under 40 Leaders” and “Future Mobile Gold Award”.
He also led the U.S.’s first digital, technology, and innovation program in Silicon Valley in collaboration with the White House. He has been a speaker and judge at numerous business and technology institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Wharton, Yale, University of California and at events such as the Red Herring CEO Conference, Federal Labs Consortium World’s Best Technologies, and the Intel Capital CEO Summit.
Rahul has been featured in publications such as Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Newsweek, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNN, ABC, FOX, CBS News and Reuters. He has authored numerous business and technology articles and frequently published in publications such as Forbes and Fast Company.
He has also served on the boards of six NASDAQ-listed public companies, including as audit committee chair, compensation committee chair, nomination and governance committee, strategic transactions, and M&A committees. He has also served as Chairman of NASDAQ-listed public companies. He is a SEC-qualified and board-deemed audit committee financial expert (ACFE) and also has technology and cybersecurity expertise. He has also served on advisory boards such as at Cisco, Stanford, Yale-Goldman Sachs Foundation, and on philanthropic boards such as Nobel Prize nominee SOS Children’s Villages USA. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and completed executive education programs at Stanford University and Harvard University.
In the News
- Newsweek: Article about Artificial Intelligence
- Financial Times: Article about AI and Technology
- Reuters: Article about Digital Policies
- Wall Street Journal: Article about Technology and Innovation
- Dallas Morning News: Article about High Finance and Big Data
- MIT Technology Review: Article about Artificial Intelligence
- Harvard Business Review: Article about Technology, Government, and Innovation
- CNBC: Article about Technology and Robotics
- NY Post: Article about Artificial Intelligence Investments
- Broadband Breakfast: Article about AI, Computing, Rare Earth Minerals, and Technology
- Economic Times: Article about Artificial Intelligence
- TechCrunch: Article about San Francisco and Innovation
- Harvard Political Review: Article about AI, Technology, and LLM Models
- Costar: Article about AI Models and DeepSeek
- The Street: Article about Artificial Intelligence
- Podcast Interview on Apple and Spotify
Published Articles
- Understanding The Foundation Of The Future Digital Economy (Forbes)
- A Guide For CEOs And Boards To Evaluate AI Investments (Forbes)
- The CEO of Tomorrow (Substack)
- Setting The Tracks For AI’s Transformative Impact (Forbes)
- Decoding the AI Stack and How to Succeed in the AI Value Chain (Fast Company)
- Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Reaching Its Tipping Point: A Guide For Corporate Leaders (Forbes)
- Edge Computing: How This Computer Revolution Is Shaping Our World (Fast Company)
- Tech’s Upcoming Revolution (Fast Company)
- The Democratization of AI: Shaping our Collective Future (Fast Company)
- The AI-Powered Renaissance: How Re-Emerging Cities Are Redefining The Future Of Tech (Forbes)
- Revolutionizing Sustainability in the Age of AI (Forbes)
- Evolution of AI Agents (Fast Company)
- How America’s industrial history is revolutionizing our technology future (DCD)
- See More Articles
Interviews and Podcasts
Technology | Operations | Innovation
Delighted to speak with and contribute towards MIT Tech Review’s deep dive into AI and where it’s headed, as AI barrels towards billions of daily users. See the latest issue of @MIT @techreview to read the full publication.
Delighted to deliver both significant revenue and gross profit growth as we recently reported our organization’s annual financial results — 136% year-over-year revenue growth in our digital colocation business, and 42% year-over-year revenue growth in our energy management
Tune in to listen to me being interviewed on “Welcome to the Arena: Conversations with Today’s Innovators and Business Leaders” — on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon Music.
-> Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rahul-mewawalla-president-ceo-mawson-infrastructure/id1575848987?i=1000697827154)
-> Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/06UefxxlMeZi7d6mTykiQt)
-> Amazon Music
Receiving lots of calls from fellow CEOs and Board Directors about what DeepSeek’s R1 model means for their companies and industries, here are some of my thoughts as published in CoStar on how this accelerates broader AI offerings, increases demand for compute, and makes agility
Stargate is the first innings of a new AI era, much more to come ahead. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/trump-announce-private-sector-ai-infrastructure-investment-cbs-reports-2025-01-21/
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