Kiran Rao
Managing Director, Head Of Portfolio Operations, Member Of Management Committee
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Rao is a seasoned private equity operating executive who leads portfolio operations and AI-driven transformation at Vector Capital after running Vista Equity Partners’ 150-person Value Creation team across 95+ enterprise software companies. He brings 15+ years of hands-on operational leadership in buyouts—shaping talent, sales, technology, finance, and procurement—and has repeatedly stepped into interim C-suite roles to accelerate turnarounds at TPG and other funds. Kiran combines strategy consulting experience from McKinsey with early-stage product and services work in Silicon Valley, giving him fluency from code-level product challenges to boardroom value creation. He has governed or advised numerous software and healthcare tech businesses (including PowerSchool, Greenway Health, Digital.ai and WellSky) and led his firms’ generative AI efforts, translating emerging models into measurable portfolio impact. A Berkeley EECS undergrad and Columbia MBA, he pairs rigorous technical training with investor-grade commercial judgment and a track record of recruiting senior leadership to scale companies. Colleagues note his rare ability to move between deep operational detail and large-scale strategic programs while maintaining a bias for measurable results.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMBA, Management & Finance, MBA, Management & Finance at Columbia Business School
Github Skills (36)
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oracle-db10
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angularjs10
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
supertitanoboa/mementos-app
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 39 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
phonereact-nativeandroidphone-applicationmementos
wesleysmyth/mementos-app
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:49 commits in 5 days
react-nativephone-applicationphonemementos
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