# Vas Bhandarkar

> Vas Bhandarkar is the co-founder and CEO of ScoreData Corporation, a Palo Alto machine-learning company whose ScoreFast platform builds and monitors predictive models for insurers, banks, and call centers. A serial entrepreneur, he was an early employee at two AI companies that IPO'd on Nasdaq (Remedy and Selectica), ran Unimobile through a sale to Electronics for Imaging, and sat on the board of GlobalLogic during a 30x revenue run. He trained as a physicist at IIT Bombay before turning to computer science and decades of company-building in Silicon Valley.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at ScoreData Corporation
- **Organizations:** ScoreData Corporation, Caralta Corporation, InsurTechNY Fund, GlobalLogic, Unimobile, Selectica, Cellmania, Remedy Corporation, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** American (Indian-born)
- **Education:** Master's in Physics, IIT Bombay, Master's in Computer Science, Colorado State University, Executive education, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA coursework, Santa Clara University
- **Known for:** Early employee at two companies that completed Nasdaq IPOs: Remedy Corporation and Selectica, Scaled Unimobile from 5,000 to 1.2 million consumers worldwide in a single year, Board member at GlobalLogic during a period of roughly 30x revenue growth

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Technical roles at Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Apple Computer
- **1990s** — Early employee at Remedy Corporation, which IPO'd on Nasdaq
- **1990s-2000** — Founding VP of Marketing at Selectica, which IPO'd in 2000
- **2000** — Chairman & CEO of Unimobile; grew it from 5,000 to 1.2M consumers in a year before sale to Electronics for Imaging
- **2004-2012** — Board member and consultant at GlobalLogic, which saw roughly 30x revenue growth during his tenure
- **Senior VP role** — Business Development at Cellmania, later acquired by RIM/BlackBerry
- **2012** — Co-founded Caralta Corporation
- **2014** — Co-founded ScoreData Corporation in Palo Alto as CEO
- **2024** — Became a Strategic Advisor at InsurTechNY Fund

## Achievements

- Early employee at two companies that completed Nasdaq IPOs: Remedy Corporation and Selectica
- Scaled Unimobile from 5,000 to 1.2 million consumers worldwide in a single year
- Board member at GlobalLogic during a period of roughly 30x revenue growth
- Built ScoreFast, a self-learning predictive modeling platform that compresses model-to-market from months to hours
- Established offshore engineering centers in Pune, Bangalore, and Delhi
- Closed partnerships with the likes of Ascend, BMW, and HP earlier in his career

## Latest updates

- **2024-02** — Joined InsurTechNY Fund as a Strategic Advisor
- **2024-12** — Published a LinkedIn piece, 'The AI Imperative: Why Boards Must Take Bold Action'

## Links

- Website: https://scoredata.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasbhandarkar/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/scoredata
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scoredatacorp

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Last updated: 2026-06-04