Mayank Bawa

Mayank Bawa is the CEO and co-founder of WorkSpan, the leading Ecosystem Business Management platform that manages over $50 billion in joint pipeline for the world's top technology companies. Before WorkSpan, he co-founded Aster Data Systems - a Big Data pioneer acquired by Teradata for $325 million in 2011. Armed with a PhD from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay (where he ranked 4th in the national entrance exam), Bawa has spent his career building category-defining companies at the intersection of data, automation, and enterprise collaboration. WorkSpan's Series D funding in 2025 marked the company's pivot toward AI-powered partnership automation, with 15,000 companies on its network.