Gopi Kandukuri

President and Chief Executive Officer Saxon AI

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Gopi Kandukuri is president and chief executive officer of Saxon AI, an enterprise AI and data services company that he has led since its founding. Saxon began as a technology services and digital transformation firm and has recast itself around applied AI: assistants, agents and enterprise search built into the systems its clients already run, with a delivery footprint spanning the USA, UAE, India and Singapore. Kandukuri is also a figure in the US IT services community, as a founding member of ITServe Alliance and its President in 2018.

Career Highlights

• President and CEO of Saxon AI, having led the company since its founding.
• Built Centers of Excellence across emerging technology domains, positioning Saxon as a digital transformation and now enterprise AI partner.
• Brought C3IT, founded by Sarika Malhotra, into Saxon AI.
• Took Saxon AI into Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network in June 2026, adding Claude to the company’s model ecosystem.
• Hosts Saxon’s executive programme, including a 2026 webinar with the CIO of Riddell and a Dubai CIO gathering he moderated.
• Founding member of ITServe Alliance, and its President in 2018.

Professional Journey

Kandukuri has led Saxon as president and CEO since its founding. The company’s own account of his tenure is that he built it into a digital transformation partner by establishing Centers of Excellence in emerging technology areas, and that his strategy rests on continuous innovation, investment in core capabilities and a partner ecosystem. That partner model is visible in Saxon’s offering: its team includes Microsoft cloud and Microsoft technologies leads, much of its published material concerns Power BI, Power Platform and Copilot, and its platform, AIssist, packages AI assistants, an agent studio and enterprise search with integrations into line-of-business systems.

The company now trades as Saxon AI and focuses its message on enterprise AI in industries such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, legal, financial services and retail. It has also grown by combination: C3IT, led by founder and CEO Sarika Malhotra, is now part of Saxon AI, which Kandukuri described as “a natural alignment of values, capabilities, and vision.” In June 2026 Saxon joined Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network. Announcing it, Kandukuri said that “AI should work where your people work, not the other way around,” and that adding Claude gave customers “more choice without more complexity.”

He is a visible voice for the company in front of senior buyers. In 2026 he appeared alongside Riddell’s CIO in a Saxon webinar on using real-time intelligence in operations, and moderated a CIO panel with Microsoft at a Saxon gathering in Dubai, reflecting the company’s presence in the Gulf.

Outside Saxon, his biography notes his role in the IT services industry more broadly: he was a founding member of ITServe Alliance, an association of mid-sized IT services companies in the United States, and served as its President in 2018.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party source reviewed.