Draft:Satyen Sangani

Satyen Sangani (born 1975) is a businessman and technologist who focuses on helping people observe and improve the world around them. Sangani co-founded Alation, and is the company’s chief executive officer.

Early life and education
Sangani was born in San Francisco and earned a degree in economics from Columbia University in 1997. He worked as an analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co., among others, focusing on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, venture investments, and leveraged buyouts.

Career
After several years in the financial industry, Sangani transitioned to the technology industry and earned a Master of Science degree in economics for development from the University of Oxford in 2002.

After graduating from Oxford, Sangani joined Oracle Corporation as a product manager, eventually rising to the position of Vice President, FS Analytical Applications after more than 9 years with the company.

In July 2012, Sangani, along with Aaron Kalb, founded Alation "to connect people with questions to people with answers." The company’s technology platform combined machine learning with human curation to create what is commonly accepted as the first modern data catalog. Datanami says the company created "industry-first data catalog software" and writes that Alation "helped define the modern data catalog space." EnterpriseAI calls Alation "the original creator of the data catalog and progenitor of the product category."

Sangani has been Alation’s CEO since the company's inception.

In January 2022, Sangani with Alation launched the Data Radicals podcast series. The show features Sangani in conversation with thought leaders in data and technology and has hosted guests that include former US general Stanley McChrystal; Turing award-winner Michael Stonebraker; Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia; science integrity expert Dr. Elisabeth Bik; authors Tim Harford, Scott Hartley, Christie Aschwanden, Paul Leonardi, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Dr. Margaret Heffernan, and David Epstein; and journalists from The Economist, The Information, and Business Insider.

Awards and honors
Sangani was named to the DataIQ 100 Most Influential People In Data 2022 and one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2022 by Goldman Sachs.