Aparna Sinha is a technology executive and investor who has built AI, cloud and developer platforms at global scale.

She served as Senior Vice President of Product at Vercel, where she ran product for the company’s AI Cloud, and as Senior Vice President and Head of AI Product at Capital One, where she helped shape the bank’s enterprise AI strategy and platform. Earlier she spent a decade at Google, where she was an executive leading the developer product group in Google Cloud. Before that she built and scaled the product team for Kubernetes, and she served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. She is a Venture Partner at Pear VC, and she began her career at McKinsey & Company.

At Stanford, Aparna is a CodeX Affiliate. She lectures in the Stanford Bootcamp on Building AI Agents in Law and co-organizes the LLM x Law Hackathon. She has co-authored CodeX white papers such as “Defensible Moats for Vertical AI Application Companies in a New Competitive Landscape.”

Aparna hosts Enterprise Aligned AI, a podcast of conversations with enterprise leaders implementing AI, with guests from Baker McKenzie, RBC, Wayfair, Coursera and Logitech.

She holds a PhD and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.