Summary
Babak Varjavandi is a seasoned CEO with over 23 years leading Nakisa, building cloud-native solutions for organizational design and lease accounting used by enterprises like Walmart, Nestle, Bayer, Delta, Airbus, and Pfizer. He combines deep product management and cloud expertise with a strategic vision that keeps Nakisa competitive in complex compliance-driven markets. Beyond day-to-day leadership, he focuses on empowering teams and customers to extract measurable business value from technology. Babak also served as Chairman of Planbox, guiding the company through a successful sale to HYPE Innovation, demonstrating his capability in governance and exits. Based in Greater Montreal, he blends long-term operational stewardship with hands-on product thinking, often translating regulatory complexity into practical, scalable software. A pragmatic collaborator, he prioritizes partnerships and customer outcomes over technology for technology’s sake.
10 years of coding experience
Concordia University