Leadership
Operators who've sat
in the room, not just the lab.
Velastegui Ventures is led by builders who've been accountable to CEOs and boards for the outcome — across Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other tech companies.
The Team
Founder & CEO
Sophia Velastegui
Sophia leads Velastegui Ventures, advising Fortune 1000 boards and executive teams on right-sized, scalable AI strategy. She spent her career building and shipping AI products at the center of the industry: as Chief AI Technology Officer at Microsoft during the OpenAI and ChatGPT era, as Chief Product Officer at Aptiv steering a multi-billion-dollar self-driving portfolio, and earlier at Google/Alphabet and Apple.
She currently sits on the board of BlackLine and Georgia Tech's President's Board, advises the National Science Foundation on AI, and is active with the National Association of Corporate Directors on AI governance. She has chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on AI and business transformation, and her perspective has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, and TEDx — Business Insider named her one of tech's most powerful female engineers.
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Executive Advisor
Anuradha Choudhury
Anuradha Choudhury is a technology executive with more than 25 years leading engineering, AI/ML, and operations organizations across networking, SaaS, and automotive — breadth that lets her translate complex technical strategy into terms a CEO can act on. As Executive AI Advisor to Velastegui Ventures, she advises the firm on AI product strategy and works directly with VV's clients on AI adoption and agentic workflow design.
She currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Reputation, a SaaS platform serving more than 2,000 enterprise and SMB customers, where she led a company-wide architectural transformation to launch a full suite of AI-driven product capabilities. Before that, she led the engineering organization that scaled Amazon Alexa's location-based services to hundreds of millions of users.
Ms. Choudhury holds a Master's in Computer Science from Arizona State University. She's known as much for her judgment and ability to drive consensus among senior stakeholders as for her technical depth — an operator who functions as a peer at the executive table, not just a resource brought in to solve a technical problem.
Co-Founder & Head of Operations
Nicholas Velastegui
Nicholas brings deep silicon, software and hardware engineering discipline to Velastegui Ventures, with a career spent in design automation and physical design across VLSI, EDA, SoC, and ASIC teams at Intel Corporation and Altera. That hands-on chip-to-system experience grounds the firm's AI strategy work in the physical and engineering realities that make deployments actually ship.
He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.