Oracle today announced that Vishal Sikka has been nominated to their board of Directors list the company said in a statement. “Vishal is one the world’s leading experts in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,” said Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. “These AI technologies are key foundational elements of the Oracle Cloud’s Autonomous Infrastructure and Intelligent Applications. Vishal’s expertise and experience makes him ideally suited to provide strategic vision and expert advice to our company and to our customers. He is a most welcome addition to the Oracle Board.”
Vishal recently launched his Al startup Vianai Systems. Before starting Vianai, Vishal was a top executive at SAP and was the CEO of Infosys. Speaking about his journey Vishal said, “Today, Oracle is the only one of the big four cloud companies that offers both Enterprise Application Suites and Secure Infrastructure technologies in a single unified cloud. Oracle’s unique position in both applications and infrastructure paves the way for enormous innovation and growth in the times ahead,”