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More about Vijay Thirumalai
Founder, Diligent Works and Angel Investor
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Building Cardinality, the 1st Industry Cloud for Human Services.
Vijay is currently building 2 Awesome SAAS brands, Cardinality & MyhCue in the Health and Human Services Space. Scaled the company from 3 employees to 100+ employees in 3 years time, with a 100%+ YoY growth, with offices in 5 continents and customers in 30+ countries & Growing.
Prior to this, Vijay was an Investment Banker and was advising Startups and growth companies in South East Asia on their fundraising and growth strategy focused on M&A and Private Equity. Vijay has advised to successfully raise more than $0.5 Bn of Capital across a variety of instruments. Vijay also advises large corporates on their Digital strategy including investments and acquisitions.
He started his career at ADP one of the largest Payroll processors in the World and worked for them in a Consulting role.
Vijay is an engineer by background and has also completed an MBA from Strategy & Finance. He is also a certified FRM and CFA Charter holder.
Overall, he has spent all of his professional experience (16+ years) in the Technology industry in various roles.
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Building Cardinality, the 1st Industry Cloud for Human Services.
Vijay is currently building 2 Awesome SAAS brands, Cardinality & MyhCue in the Health and Human Services Space. Scaled the company from 3 employees to 100+ employees in 3 years time, with a 100%+ YoY growth, with offices in 5 continents and customers in 30+ countries & Growing.
Prior to this, Vijay was an Investment Banker and was advising Startups and growth companies in South East Asia on their fundraising and growth strategy focused on M&A and Private Equity. Vijay has advised to successfully raise more than $0.5 Bn of Capital across a variety of instruments. Vijay also advises large corporates on their Digital strategy including investments and acquisitions.
He started his career at ADP one of the largest Payroll processors in the World and worked for them in a Consulting role.
Vijay is an engineer by background and has also completed an MBA from Strategy & Finance. He is also a certified FRM and CFA Charter holder.
Overall, he has spent all of his professional experience (16+ years) in the Technology industry in various roles.
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