Vivek Paul

Early life Vivek Paul was born in New Delhi, India. He did schooling in Bombay Scottish and St. Columba's School, New Delhi. He received Bachelor of Engineering degree from BITS Pilani and MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Paul worked in strategy consulting at Bain & Co. for four years

GE In 1990, Paul was part of the founding team of WiproGE Medical Systems. He became its CEO in 1993. In one of the books about Jack Welch, Paul was cited as top five All Star CEOs from GE.

Wipro In 1999, Paul was asked to become vice chairman of Wipro and CEO of its outsourcing unit. Wipro was a $150-million company when Vivek Paul took over, and it had all the tendencies of a small, traditional company. Paul has been credited with creating a global business and for much of Wipro's growth into a multibillion-dollar company. On 19 October 2000, Wipro was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Paul was recognized as a Global Business Influential by TIME in 2004, as among the best global managers by BusinessWeek in 2004, and among the world's most respected CEO's by Barron's in 2005.

TPG Capital In June 2005, Paul joined private equity firm, TPG Capital, as an investing partner spanning various fund classes, from buyout to Asia to venture capital. He went on to be a founding partner of TPG Growth, a fund focused on growth capital for midsize companies. He resigned from TPG in December 2008.

Kinetic Glue Founded KineticGlue, a cloud-based enterprise social media application in 2008. Sold company to BMC in 2013.

Stanford Paul co-founded the Microbiome Alliance at Stanford, and was the driving force behind the first Microbiome Symposium at Stanford in 2014. The ninth annual Stanford Microbiome Symposium was held in September 2022, at which time Paul announced the end of his involvement with that effort. Paul also co-chaired the Biodesign program of 2014–2015.

Electronic Arts Paul served on the board of Electronic Arts from 2005 to 2019, and was chair of its CEO selection committee in 2013.

Paul has served on the advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce, on the board of the U.S.-India Business Council, and on the Senate of BITS Pilani. Among the top global business influentials by Time magazine in 2004. Among the top 30 most respected global CEOs by Barron's in 2005. Among the top 5 CEO's by Jack Welch in his book 4E's of Leadership in 2005 Design for Six Sigma pioneer by Mikel Harry in his book, Six Sigma in 2006