# Uday Hegde

> Uday Hegde is co-founder and CEO of USEReady, the New York-based data analytics and enterprise AI company founded in 2011 with Lalit Bakshi. His earlier career includes Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Credit Suisse. An alumnus of IIIT Bangalore and Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management program, he has written about community learning, automation and the economics of business intelligence. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at USEReady
- **Organizations:** USEReady, Credit Suisse, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
- **Education:** Post Graduate Program in Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Owner/President Management (OPM) program, Harvard Business School, Bachelor’s degree, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore
- **Known for:** Co-founded USEReady in 2011 and continues as CEO., Appointed to IIIT Bangalore’s governing body in 2020 under the alumni category., Led USEReady during its 2022 growth investment from Abry Partners.

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Graduated from the first cohort at IIIT Bangalore.
- **Before 2011** — Worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Credit Suisse; describes market-risk work at Credit Suisse as formative.
- **2011** — Co-founded USEReady with Lalit Bakshi.
- **2020** — IIIT Bangalore approved his governing body nomination in the alumni category on February 5.
- **2020** — Published Forbes Technology Council essays on community intelligence and finance automation.
- **2021** — Listed with Kate Strachnyi for a Tableau conference discussion on legacy BI migration.
- **2022** — USEReady received growth capital from Abry Partners.
- **2024** — USEReady received the Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in the Tableau category.
- **2025** — Discussed zero-cost intelligence and AI-assisted internal learning in a July interview.
- **2026** — Discussed AI orchestration, governance and project success criteria in May and June interviews.

## Achievements

- Co-founded USEReady in 2011 and continues as CEO.
- Appointed to IIIT Bangalore’s governing body in 2020 under the alumni category.
- Led USEReady during its 2022 growth investment from Abry Partners.
- CEO of USEReady when it won the 2024 Salesforce Partner Innovation Award for Tableau.
- Contributed executive letters to USEReady practitioner guides and published business essays.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — In CRN India, discussed defining AI success, cost and iteration boundaries, human review and the ART framework.
- **2026-05** — Discussed orchestration as a service and the engineering requirements of enterprise AI in DQ Channels.
- **2025-07** — Outlined his zero-cost intelligence thesis and described internal AI analysis of sales conversations.

## Links

- Website: https://www.useready.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udayhegde0/

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Last updated: 2026-10-26