Stepan Melkonyan
United States
Mr. George Kadifa is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Sumeru Equity Partners. He serves as Board Member at Ceros. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Director at SEP Growth Holdings Corp. He serves as Mentor at Engineering Capital. He also serves as Advisor at Got-It AI. He is an Advisor of StrongBlock. Mr. Kadifa serves as Board Member at Tasktop. He is focused on the firm's software investments and is a member of the Investment Committee. He has three decades of operating experience in the technology sector. Prior to Co-Founding Sumeru Equity Partners, he was Executive Vice President at HP, reporting to the CEO and member of the Executive Committee. He was responsible for leading growth initiatives and alliance programs with key partners, service providers, and the largest customers. Mr. Kadifa previously served as Executive Vice President of HP Software. He led HP's $4-billion software business which includes IT/Cloud Operations Management, Application Delivery Management, Enterprise Security, and HP Big Data. He previously served as Operating Partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with over $26 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for driving growth and operational improvement in a wide range of enterprises within the company portfolio of the firm's large-cap investment fund. He has significant expertise in building and managing technology businesses. He has held various leadership positions at technology and management consulting companies such as IBM, Corio Corporation (founder), Oracle, Booz-Allen and Hamilton and Xerox. He also serves as Board Member at Market Data Services, SocialChorus, and Fadel. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from American University in Beirut, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at Duality Technologies. Mr. Kadifa also serves as Board Member at Got It AI.
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