Vivek Kundra

Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade
Commonwealth of Virginia

     Vivek Kundra serves as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and was appointed to this position by Governor Tim Kaine in January 2006.  Prior to joining Governor Kaine’s Cabinet, he was the CEO of Creostar, a company focused on cyber security and information warfare.  Kundra served as the Vice-President of Marketing for Evincible Software, a technology startup that enabled trusted transactions for the government and the financial sector, which was sold to Exostar.  Prior to that, he was the Director of IT for Arlington, VA, where he was responsible for the government’s strategic technology initiatives and focused on protecting critical national assets under homeland security. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland teaching classes on emerging and disruptive technologies.

     Before joining Arlington he was with SAIC, consulting at the Health and Human Services (HHS) focusing on growing SAIC's $1 Billion business at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to SAIC Mr. Kundra was the CEO of eRush.com a startup in next generation bot technologies.  He is actively involved in the political process at the local, state, and national level.

     Vivek Kundra has worked on the World Cities Alliance initiative to advance business and economic development in Arlington, Zurich, Paris, Berlin, and Wales.  Within the private sector, he worked with multiple clients to build operations in the United States, Canada, and India.

     He received his Masters in Information Technology and his Bachelors in Psychology and Biology from the University of Maryland.
 
Source:  Commonwealth of Virginia, 8/06