Shariq Mansoor

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Aera Technology

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Shariq Mansoor is co-founder and chief technology officer of Aera Technology, the Mountain View, California company that sells decision intelligence software: a platform that watches enterprise data, recommends or automates operational decisions, and learns from their outcomes. Aera is the company he founded as FusionOps, a supply chain analytics business, and rebuilt in 2017 with new capital from NEA and a new chief executive, former Anaplan CEO Frederic Laluyaux. He stepped aside from the top job to run technology. In January 2026 Gartner named Aera a Leader in its first Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, which Aera described as establishing the category it had spent years arguing for.

Career Highlights

• Founded FusionOps, a Sunnyvale-based supply chain analytics company, and appears as a director on its 2014 SEC Form D.
• Led the June 2017 transformation of FusionOps into Aera Technology, alongside a $50 million round led by NEA, which had invested $25 million in FusionOps in 2016.
• Handed the CEO role to Frederic Laluyaux at the rebrand and became chief technology officer.
• Co-founder and CTO of Aera Technology, named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms.

Professional Journey

Mansoor’s company began as FusionOps, which built analytics for global supply chains. SEC filings show FusionOps Inc, based in Sunnyvale, raising private capital across several Regulation D offerings between the mid-2000s and 2014. Its January 2014 Form D lists him as a director alongside the company’s executive officers and its investors’ board representatives.

The business changed shape in 2016 and 2017. NEA invested $25 million in FusionOps in 2016, then led a $50 million round the following year. In June 2017 the company relaunched as Aera Technology, moved to Mountain View and appointed Frederic Laluyaux, formerly chief executive of Anaplan and before that an SAP executive, as president and CEO. DC Velocity reported that Laluyaux replaced “company founder Shariq Mansoor, who will now take the role of CTO.” The founder-to-CTO handover is a familiar one in enterprise software. It puts a seasoned operator in charge of go-to-market, while the person who designed the technology keeps control of the product.

Under the Aera name, the product widened from supply chain analytics into what the company calls decision intelligence. Aera Decision Cloud is designed to act as an agent. It surfaces decisions in areas such as supply chain, procurement and finance, recommends or executes them, and feeds the outcomes back into its models. Mansoor frames that design as the company’s starting premise: “From the beginning, Aera was engineered as an intelligent agent that engages directly with users, enables complex decision-making where it matters most, and learns from every outcome.” When Gartner named Aera a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, he said the company had “helped define decision intelligence.” Aera’s About page continues to list him as Co-Founder & CTO.

Education

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