Ravi Raj

Ravi N. Raj is the CEO and Co-founder of Passage AI. In this role, he leads a team of AI and deep learning engineers that have created the industry-leading AI platform that businesses can use to create a
conversational interface for their websites without a single line of code.

Prior to co-founding Passage AI, he led product for @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s hub for innovation around social, mobile and retail. Raj came to Walmart through the acquisition of Kosmix, where he served as the VP and GM of Kosmix’s sites, which included Kosmix.com, Tweetbeat.com and RightHealth.com, then the second largest health site on the Web.

Raj has also played leadership roles at Yahoo, AltaVista and Elance (now Upwork) and hold patents in search, social media, and retail. He has been featured on CNBC, New York Times, Financial Times, WSJ, Bloomberg, Internet Retailer, Venturebeat and TechCrunch. He has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, and a graduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

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