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Sajai K.

Visionary · DISC type Ds
Operating Advisor, Head of Strategy at Clarifai
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Sajai K. is a General Manager and startup CEO focused on B2B SaaS, currently serving as Operating Advisor and Head of Strategy at Clarifai. His expertise spans business strategy, product management, and P&L management, with past leadership roles at Elastic, VMware, and AWS. He holds degrees from Rice University and IIT, Madras.

Outside of his primary roles, Sajai is passionate about mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs, coaching several AI-native startups from his alma maters network each year. His personal interests also include travel and scuba diving, which he pursued during a dedicated career break.

Unique fact: He coaches three to six AI-native startups founded by IIT alumni every year.

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Current Role
Operating Advisor, Head of Strategy
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Sajai shows up

Early Adopter
Goal-Oriented
Big Vision Person

Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time.

Priorities

Topics Sajai cares about

Agentic AI
Actively participates in panel discussions about the present and future of Agentic AI, indicating a strong interest in advanced AI systems and their orchestration.
Domain-Specific Generative AI
Advocates for domain-specific generative AI, emphasizing its benefits in providing better results, economics, and security by using private data context.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Operating Advisor, Head of Strategy
Clarifai
3-2025
Startup Coach
https://iitstartups.org/
6-2023
Career Break
5-2022 - 6-2023
GM Elastic Observability (Logs, AIops/ML, APM, metrics)
Elastic
6-2018 - 5-2022
GM Observability, VP Tanzu Business Group
VMware
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
MS
Rice University
B Tech
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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