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= Vinay Kumar Kottapalli = Vinay Kumar Kottapalli is the CEO of Datawise. He serves as the member of a board in several companies.

Education
Vinay Kottapalli completed his schooling at St. Paul's School in Rourkela. He completed his schooling in 1982. He received a Bacholer's in Science (B.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering, graduating from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1988. He worked as a consultant at MECON for two years before pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad.

Career
After completing his PGDM, Vinay Kottapalli joined RPG Group as a manager in 1992. In 1998, he left the company and joined Ernst & Young as a manager. He acted as a consultant in transaction advisory services. He left Ernst & Young to join Netjets Middle East as a manager in 2002. In 2003, he moved back to India, taking the role of General Manager-Corporate Planning at Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited. He left Apollo in 2004 to take up the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Vasant Scribes, a small pharmaceutical company which grew to a medium-sized business by the time Vinay left in 2007. In 2007, he founded the company Datawise, which provides various software solutions for analytics, marketing and surveying. Vinay Kumar Kottapalli has been the CEO of Datawise since its inception. He also took up the role of President in a customer services and analytics company called Com Sim in 2014.