Priya Shivakumar

COO Lightning AI

Before joining Lightning AI, Priya led the product strategy for Confluent Cloud at Confluent, a recent public, data streaming company. While there, she built the cloud-native experience for Apache Kafka, enabling product-led growth and driving adoption across developers, teams and the Enterprise. Priya’s prior roles include VMware product management and growth strategy consulting.

At Lightning, Priya is focused on democratizing access to Gen AI by delivering a best-in-class AI platform and go-to-market focused on reimagining the complex, fragmented process of building AI products, which currently deters even the most tech-savvy organizations.