Nij Chawla

Nij (Neeraj) Chawla serves as Chief Product Officer for CognitiveScale. In addition, he is also heading up Market Development of innovative cognitive solutions into a number of industry verticals (Healthcare, Retail) and process horizontals (Service Desk, Procurement). Finally, Nij heads up Enterprise Sales leadership for the company.

Prior to joining CognitiveScale, Nij was Vice President of Products and Client Success at WayBlazer where headed up Product Management, Strategy, and Customer Success and drove cognitive solutions targeted at the Travel & Hospitality industry. Nij has also held senior leadership positions at Oracle most recently heading up the Stores and Commerce businesses for Oracle Retail. Nij led Vision, Strategy, Product Management, and Business Development for two suites of enterprise solutions at Oracle. He has built from scratch, led Engineering Groups across multiple geographic locations for 8 enterprise products at Oracle and grown teams from 0 to 105. He was a key leader in driving early mobile products coming out of Oracle. Nij was instrumental in driving a large complex cross-org Retail Omni-Channel release that cut across ten different groups.

Nij holds an Electrical Engineering (with Computers) degree from the University of Texas at Austin and was a two time Engineering Scholar. Nij can be obsessive about food, loves tennis, college football, and photography.