# Murali Aravamudan

> Murali Aravamudan is the co-founder and CEO of nference, an engineer and inventor whose earlier ventures include Winphoria Networks and Veveo. His career spans Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, mobile network infrastructure, video discovery and conversational software.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at nference
- **Organizations:** nference, Veveo, Winphoria Networks, Motorola, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Anumana, Pramana, Vimana
- **Education:** Master’s degree in Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
- **Known for:** Co-founded Winphoria Networks, acquired by Motorola in 2003., Co-founded and led Veveo, acquired by Rovi in 2014., Helped develop communications softswitch technology at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.

## Career timeline

- **1989** — Completed a master’s degree in Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science.
- **Before 2000** — Held communications software research and technology leadership roles at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
- **2000** — Co-founded Winphoria Networks with Shamim Naqvi and served as CTO.
- **2003** — Winphoria Networks was acquired by Motorola; subsequently led Motorola’s Winphoria division as vice president and general manager.
- **2004-2005** — Co-founded Veveo with Ajit Rajasekharan. Rovi’s contemporary announcement dates the company to 2004; his current biography dates his founding role to 2005.
- **2007** — Introduced vTap, Veveo’s mobile web video search service.
- **2012** — Veveo announced voice and natural language interfaces for television discovery, targeting commercial availability in early 2013.
- **2013** — Began developing the nference concept with Venky Soundararajan, according to Soundararajan’s retrospective account.
- **2014** — Rovi announced its agreement to acquire Veveo for approximately $62 million net cash plus up to $7 million in milestone payments.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Winphoria Networks, acquired by Motorola in 2003.
- Co-founded and led Veveo, acquired by Rovi in 2014.
- Helped develop communications softswitch technology at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
- Named as a co-inventor on patents concerning search and conversational information retrieval.
- Co-founded nference with Venky Soundararajan.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — The HRX 2026 program listed him as a September 18 main-tent speaker and identified him as nference’s co-founder and CEO; the listing establishes the scheduled appearance, not independent confirmation of attendance.

## Links

- Website: https://nference.com/about-us/murali-aravamudan
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muraliaravamudan

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