Sandeep Sahai

Sandeep Sahai is the Chief Executive Officer of Clearwater Analytics, a position he has held since 2018. Under his leadership, the company has experienced significant organic growth across its core industries, expanded into new geographies, and entered new markets. Clearwater has built a disruptive SaaS platform that, combined with deep operational expertise, has helped established the company as a leader in the industry. What began as a primarily single-office operation has evolved into a global entity with offices and operating centers around the world, serving large and complex global customers. Clearwater went public in Fall 2021 and is traded under the ticker CWAN.

Previously, Sandeep was President and CEO of Headstrong, a leading solutions and managed services provider to leading financial institutions around the world. At the conclusion of his tenure as CEO at Headstrong, the company had several thousand employees with development centers across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Before Headstrong, he was a founder and partner of the consulting firm TechSpan, CEO of Virginia-based SkanSoft, and served for 10 years with the HCL group. Prior to joining Clearwater, Sandeep was Chairman of AIM Software in Austria, on the Board of Simeio solutions, and an Operating Partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS).

Sandeep holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, an Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, and is an alumnus of The Doon School, Dehradun.