Ganesh V. Iyer
CEO,
NIO U.S.

Ganesh Iyer is the CEO of NIO US. As the CEO of NIO in the United States of America, Ganesh leads efforts toward the company's brand and business development, local R&D as well as media relations. Ganesh V. Iyer reports to William LI, co-founder and CEO of NIO, Inc.

Previously he was Managing Director of NIO-US, Executive Vice President, and Global CIO. He is a business-savvy CIO and digital development and operations executive with over 35+ years of experience delivering proven results in various industries, including autonomous technology, technology-driven manufacturing, and telecom. He is recognized for rescuing under-performing digital organizations in emerging and global markets and is an expert at change management and building relationships across the organization to achieve company goals.

Previously he held the role of Vice President, Information Technology at Tesla Motors for nearly five years. He led Tesla's e-commerce, homegrown service operations, and business intelligence systems. Before Tesla, he led senior IT leadership roles at VMWare. He was responsible for delivering VMWare's customer entitlement management software solution and ERP systems.

Before this role, Ganesh was the Director of IT at Juniper Networks. He was responsible for the global ERP/CRM systems implementations. As a Six Sigma green belt expert, Ganesh was instrumental in streamlining Juniper's business processes to optimize the IT investments across various business units.

Prior to Juniper, Ganesh was the IT Director at WebEx and was in charge of all aspects of IT development, operations, and product engineering. In addition, he was instrumental assisting the CFO with a very successful IPO of WebEx in 2000.

Before WebEx, he spent ten years consulting primarily for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). In addition, he implemented ERP, CRM, and OSS systems for various clients, including Oracle, Total Petroleum, Tata Chemicals, Bombay Stock Exchange, and Sun Microsystems.