Viren Kapadia | |
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Born | 1967 |
Education | University of Connecticut (BA) University of New Haven (MBA) |
Occupation(s) | President and CEO of Gyrus Systems [1] [2] Former Chief Information Officer and Sourcing Officer at Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Co. (now Willis Group) [3] [4] |
Spouse | Smita Kapadia (m. 1993) |
Children | 2 |
Website | https://www.gyrus.com/about [1] |
Viren Kapadia (born 1967) is president and CEO of Gyrus Systems, a Learning Management System (LMS) since 2009. [2] He previously worked as a chief information officer (CIO) for Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Co. (now Willis Group) from 2006 to 2008 and as a vice president of information technology at General Electric from 1997 to 2006. [4] [3]
Kapadia is on the board of directors for Virginia College Fund, [5] on the board for Virginia Value Veterans, [6] and an advisory board member for the University of Connecticut School of Business MS FinTech. [7]
Viren Kapadia was born the youngest of four children to Hasu and Rasik Kapadia in Valsad Gujarat. [2] He lived in Gujarat until he was 16 then his family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1983.
Kapadia attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Accounting, 1989. [2] He received his MBA in International Business at the University of New Haven, 1995. [2] He was part of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses National Cohort program for Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies in 2018 at Babson College. [8]
After college, Kapadia worked as a Software Developer with Emery Worldwide in Wilton, Connecticut. In 1991, he worked at Aetna headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut as a Software Developer Manager. In 2001, Kapadia started working at GE, where various insurance business of GE were renamed Genworth Financial. [9] [10] While at Genworth Financial in 2003, Kapadia along with Bryon Tatsumi and Steven E. Tivey made a patent, filed June 25, 2003 and date of Patent June 9, 2009. [11] In 2006, Kapadia worked for Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Co. (now Willis Group) as chief information officer and Sourcing Officer. [3] In 2009, Kapadia became the president and CEO of Gyrus System. [4] [12] His business was featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses in November 2023. [13]