Aneel Bhusri

Bhusri was a senior vice president at PeopleSoft responsible for product strategy, business development, and marketing before joining Greylock Partners as a venture capitalist in 1999. He co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005, bringing both operational experience from PeopleSoft and venture capital expertise from Greylock. His founding philosophy was that enterprise software should be as intuitive as consumer applications, and that the cloud architecture would enable continuous innovation without the upgrade cycles that plagued legacy vendors.

Aneel Bhusri is the co-founder, CEO, and Executive Chair of Workday, Inc. Born in 1966, Bhusri holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University. He spent six years at PeopleSoft in senior leadership roles including vice chair of the board and senior vice president of product strategy, business development, and marketing, before joining Greylock Partners in 1999 as a venture capitalist. At Greylock, he invested in companies including Facebook, Dropbox, and Airbnb, gaining deep insight into platform business models and network effects. He co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 and served as co-CEO from 2009 to 2014, then as sole CEO from 2014 to 2020. In 2020, he became co-CEO alongside Carl Eschenbach, who was expected to succeed him as sole CEO in March 2024. However, in February 2026, Eschenbach stepped down and Bhusri returned as CEO. Bhusri serves on the boards of Stanford University, Cruise, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Eat. Learn. Play., and is an advisory partner at Greylock Partners. He has also served on the boards of General Motors, Intel, Pure Storage, and Okta. Bhusri's strategic focus has been on maintaining Workday's product innovation velocity and expanding from HCM into financial management and AI-driven workforce planning.