Kumar Dandapani

Kumar Dandapani was born in northeast Ohio, attended public schools K-12, and earned dual undergraduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Social & Decision Sciences and an M.S. Electrical Engineering from the University Pennsylvania. Mr. Dandapani started his career in financial services at a global macro hedge fund in the New York area and then as a derivatives trader at Evolution Capital Management. Prior to founding Cadenza, Mr. Dandapani served as Head of Data Science at Norwest Venture Partners in San Francisco and Palo Alto.