# Ashutosh Garg

> Ashutosh Garg is the co-founder and chairman of Eightfold AI, co-founder and CEO of Viven, and a co-founder and former CTO of Bloomreach. Trained at IIT Delhi and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he worked at IBM Research and Google before applying search and personalization expertise to commerce, careers and enterprise knowledge. Joe Korngiebel succeeded him as Eightfold CEO on October 13, 2026.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at Eightfold AI; Co-Founder and CEO at Viven
- **Organizations:** Eightfold AI, Viven, Bloomreach, Google, IBM Research, Bidgely
- **From:** Haldwani, India
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with research in machine learning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- **Known for:** Co-founded Bloomreach and Eightfold AI, both of which attained valuations exceeding $1 billion., Eightfold leadership biography credits him with more than 50 patents and more than 30 papers., IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship, 2024.

## Career timeline

- **1994** — Began working with machine learning during undergraduate studies, according to his AI Ignition interview.
- **1997** — Graduated from IIT Delhi with a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering.
- **1998** — Moved to the United States for graduate study.
- **2002** — Completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- **2003-2004** — Worked at IBM Research before joining Google.
- **2004-2008** — Worked at Google on search and personalization; left in May 2008.
- **2009** — Co-founded Bloomreach with Raj De Datta and served as CTO.
- **2016** — Left Bloomreach and co-founded Eightfold AI with Varun Kacholia.
- **2017-2018** — Returned Eightfold to its original matching product after a detour into a recruiting-agency marketplace.
- **2019** — Co-authored What’s Next for You with Kamal Ahluwalia; John W. Thompson wrote the foreword.
- **2021** — Eightfold announced a $220 million Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, at a $2.1 billion valuation.
- **2024** — Received IIT Delhi’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship.
- **2025** — Viven emerged from stealth on October 15 with $35 million in seed funding; Garg was identified as co-founder and CEO.
- **2026** — Became Eightfold chairman when Joe Korngiebel was named CEO on October 13.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Bloomreach and Eightfold AI, both of which attained valuations exceeding $1 billion.
- Eightfold leadership biography credits him with more than 50 patents and more than 30 papers.
- IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship, 2024.
- Co-author of What’s Next for You: The Eightfold Path to Transforming the Way We Hire and Manage Talent, published in 2019.
- Eightfold leadership biography lists a best thesis award at IIT Delhi, an IBM Fellowship and an outstanding researcher award at UIUC.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — On October 13, Eightfold named Joe Korngiebel CEO and Garg continued as chairman of the board.
- **2026-10** — On October 14, Garg published a founder letter reflecting on a decade of Eightfold and the move toward agentic AI.
- **2026-09** — Published the LinkedIn article Trust in enterprise AI is engineered, not announced on September 29.
- **2026-07** — Discussed growing up in Haldwani and his AI career in a July 2 Authority Magazine interview.
- **2025-10** — Viven announced $35 million in seed funding on October 15, with Garg as co-founder and CEO.

## Links

- Website: https://eightfold.ai/blog/contributor/ashutoshgarg/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshgarg893/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ashutoshg
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashutoshgarg

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