Samidha Garud

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Kanerika

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Samidha Garud is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kanerika, a data and AI consulting firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Kanerika was established in 2015. It helps enterprises with data integration, data governance, analytics, automation and generative AI, and has built its business mainly around Microsoft’s data platform. It also has partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and OpenAI. Kanerika’s own pages show that she took over as chief executive from fellow co-founder Bhupendra Chopra, who now serves as Chief Revenue Officer. During her time as CEO, Kanerika has gained partner designations and certifications, launched Microsoft Fabric workloads and expanded its senior leadership team.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Kanerika, which the company says was established and incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
• Chief Executive Officer of Kanerika. She is named CEO on the company’s leadership page and in its 2026 releases, and was already referred to as CEO in September 2023.
• Speaking as CEO in March 2026, announced two native Microsoft Fabric workloads that Kanerika introduced at FabCon 2026.
• The new Chief Delivery Officer reports to her. His hiring, announced in September 2026, was part of a leadership expansion that also added a Chief Information Security Officer and a senior delivery leader.
• Kanerika was named a Major Contender in the Everest Group Microsoft Azure Services PEAK Matrix 2026 and holds three Microsoft Solutions Partner designations.

Professional Journey

Kanerika was founded in 2015. The company says it set out to build a global consulting firm that would solve data integration, analytics and automation problems. It is incorporated in the United States with headquarters in Austin, Texas, and has a Singapore entity. Its development centres are in India, with the main one in Hyderabad and others in Ahmedabad, Indore and Gurugram. Garud is one of its co-founders. Another co-founder, Bhupendra Chopra, was described as CEO in a company post from November 2022. By September 2023 Kanerika was referring to Garud as CEO. The company has not published when or how the role passed to her, and Chopra’s current title is Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer.

Alongside its consulting work, Kanerika sells its own products. These include FLIP, an automation and workflow platform, a set of migration accelerators and enterprise AI agents. In March 2026 the company launched two native Microsoft Fabric workloads at FabCon. Garud presented them as a way for organisations to modernise without giving up access to their data: “Organizations should not have to choose between modernization speed and data accessibility.” Over the same period Kanerika became a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Data & AI, Digital & App Innovation, and Infrastructure. It also joined the OpenAI Partner Network and was named a Major Contender in Everest Group’s 2026 PEAK Matrix for Microsoft Azure services. The company holds ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, SOC 2 Type II compliance and a CMMI Level 3 appraisal.

In 2025 and 2026 she expanded the executive team. Kanerika appointed a Chief Information Security Officer in November 2025 and a senior delivery leader from Oracle in May 2026. In August 2026 Dheeraj Garg joined as Chief Delivery Officer, reporting directly to her. Announcing the appointments, she said: “We’re not adding titles. We’re adding leaders who have built and run delivery organizations at scale.”

In 2023 Kanerika said she had been recognised by CEO Insights India. The CEO Insights article is published as vendor content.

Education

No education record from a primary source was found. Degrees attributed to her on data-aggregator sites could not be verified and are not listed.