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Hari Ravichandran

Founder & CEO
AURA

Hari Ravichandran is the CEO and founder of Aura.

An engineer by training and entrepreneur by nature, Hari has a track record of founding and investing in successful businesses in technology and security. After an experience with identity theft in 2014, Hari founded Aura in 2017 to simplify digital security for consumers. He has since grown Aura into a business valued at $2.5 billion dollars, dedicated to creating a safer internet for everyone through an intelligent, proactive platform.

Prior to founding Aura, Hari founded Jump Ventures, a scalability infusion firm that strategically invests in bringing disruptive ideas to market. He is the founder and former CEO of Endurance International Group (now Newfold Digital), which he built from a start-up to a publicly traded global hosting and email marketing company with an enterprise value of approximately $3.5 billion dollars and more than 3,500 employees worldwide.

Hari is named on over 40 approved or pending technology patents, was named Ernst & Young’s 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year (New England), and was also named one of Forbes magazine’s most powerful CEOs 40 and Under in 2014 and 2015.

Hari holds an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a BS in computer engineering from Mississippi State University and studied electrical engineering at Stanford.

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Events featuring Hari Ravichandran
Events featuring Hari Ravichandran