Nivedita Ojha
CEO & Co-Founder
Nivedita Ojha co-founded Kamet after shaping product strategy in Vice President positions at Autodesk and FORT Robotics. Her prior work experiences in General Manager and Sr. Director of Product Management roles at Citrix, Philips, and Flex helped her build the foundation for entering the industrial automation business. Nivedita’s educational background includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay, an MS from Mississippi State University, and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She has served as a Board Advisor who counsels companies to grow through innovations, acquisitions, and IPOs.
Nivedita's general philosophy for building business success starts with trust and empowering her team. Regarding product and business strategy, Nivedita always starts with a vision and visualization of the “North Star.” To set the direction for Kamet, Nivedita spoke with over 300 companies about their industrial automation challenges. This gave the company its mission of flipping the paradigm from chasing automation failures to preventing them and making recommendations to maximize operational efficiency.
Shaunak Mistry
CTO & Co-Founder
Shaunak Mistry was Principal Architect at Looker and Google, where he developed the Looker Enterprise platform for clients such as Walmart, Amazon and Apple, leading to a $2B acquisition. Before joining Kamet, Shaunak served as Vice President of Cloud & Security at FORT Robotics. Earlier in his career, Shaunak held a key architect role at Zenprise, where his data-centric approach to mobile security contributed to its acquisition by Citrix for $355M. With over 30 years of experience in building enterprise data platforms utilizing data analytics and now AI, Shaunak has been granted more than 20 patents in the fields of data and security. He co-founded Kamet to address industrial operations challenges through a data-centric approach.