Dr. Namratha “Nammy” Vedire is the VP of Enterprise Alliances at MetaCX, where she works with senior leaders at category leading enterprises, and other stakeholders, in support of national efforts around employee wellness and health & racial equity.

Prior to starting at MetaCX, Nammy served as the Director of Platform and Operations at Engage, a unique corporate venture fund backed by 14 Fortune 500 corporations and Georgia Tech. She worked with C-suite leaders to identify their strategic initiatives and incorporate those insights into the development of the programming, content, and experience for the startups selected for Engage’s bi-annual Enterprise Go-To-Market program. She also built Engage’s immersive internship program that has supported over 80 talented students in three years from Georgia Tech, UGA, GSU, UPenn, Emory, and SCAD. Nammy is a certified Gallup Strengths coach, is an inaugural OnDeck Community Builder Fellow, and also contributes as an engineering scientist for Wilson Research Lab at Georgia Tech, aiding in developing logic circuits for intelligent microbes.

Nammy started her career as a Venture Creation Consultant at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute where she worked with over 50 student, faculty, and alumni-led early-stage startups. Most recently, she was the Associate Director of the Center for Deliberate Innovation at Georgia Tech where she led strategic planning and operations. At the Center, Nammy ran the Flashpoint@GT program which taught founders, enterprise innovation teams, and leaders in educational innovation to recognize and supersede the cognitive biases that cause startups and corporate innovation to fail.

Nammy holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation was on the development of algorithms for 5G wireless communication technologies. She received her Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. An artist and graphic designer, Nammy has over eight years of training in fine arts and has studied at the Yale School of Art. She spends her downtime working with different painting media, tinkering with typography, and reading.