Pooja Tripathi

I graduated from IIT Roorkee as a material science engineer and began my career with the Tata Steel Group in India, where I spent 7 years. I started as a graduate trainee in one of their highest programs and grew through the ranks. When I left, I was working directly in the office of the vice president, leading operational readiness, including IT readiness, for Tata's $12 billion investment in a completely new manufacturing setup. Wanting to gain global experience beyond my local knowledge and business expertise, I moved to the United States to pursue my MBA at Harvard Business School. After Harvard, I joined Amazon within the Alexa team as part of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, where I led product teams in model building and working with LLMs. I wanted to transition from serving developers as customers to owning a direct consumer-facing SaaS business, which led me to Expedia. I joined as a director leading product teams and scaled their travel advisor product from a $1.5 billion business to $3 billion. I recently started with Arrivia as Vice President for Product Operations, where I own product for all lines of business. My career has been driven by my passion for technology, combining hardware and software, and my successful pivot from manufacturing technology to software business in the AI domain is what I consider my biggest achievement.