Kodamai Names AI and Semiconductor Veteran Pankaj Kedia Non-Executive Director as Agentic AI Expands Beyond the Cloud

Kodamai, a pioneer in mathematically rigorous agentic AI, announced the appointment of Pankaj Kedia as Non-Executive Director on its Board of Directors. The appointment brings Kedia’s deep AI and semiconductor expertise to Kodamai at a pivotal moment in the company’s evolution, as enterprises accelerate their adoption of agentic AI while shifting away from centralized cloud toward heterogeneous, distributed compute environments spanning cloud, edge, and device.

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“I am excited to join the Kodamai board and to contribute to what I believe will be one of the defining technology companies of this decade.” – Pankaj Kedia

Accelerating Agentic AI Across the Distributed Stack

Enterprises are undergoing a fundamental transformation in how AI is deployed. The era of monolithic, centralized cloud AI is giving way to a new reality: intelligence must run everywhere — in the cloud, at the edge, and on devices. Kodamai was built to solve the orchestration challenge this creates, and Kelvingrove is designed to become the de-facto platform and programming language that makes next-generation, hardware-agnostic AI deployments possible at enterprise scale.

“We are delighted to welcome Pankaj to our board to help guide Kodamai through its next phase of growth,” said Maha Achour, CEO and Founder, Kodamai. “His three decades of experience — from driving Internet and mobile adoption across laptop PCs, smartphones, IoT, and wearable devices at Intel and Qualcomm to an impressive track record as an investor in leading AI companies — makes him an extraordinary addition to our team.”

Industry-Leading Semiconductor, AI, and Smart Edge Experience

Kedia is a globally recognized, award-winning thought-leader, early-stage AI investor, CXO advisor, adjunct MBA professor, and keynote speaker. As Founder and Managing Partner of 2468 Ventures, he has directly invested in 160+ startups and 25+ VC funds across silicon, systems, software, and services, with 20+ unicorns in his portfolio and 22 exits over the past 21 quarters.

“We are still in the early phases of the AI revolution, and the most important chapter is just being written. The critical challenge enterprises face today is not access to AI models — it is the ability to deploy, orchestrate, and run intelligent agents reliably across an increasingly complex and distributed hardware landscape,” said Kedia. “That is precisely the problem Kodamai and the Kelvingrove platform are designed to solve. By building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era, Kelvingrove has the potential to become as essential to enterprise AI as Linux became to the cloud. I am excited to join the Kodamai board and to contribute to what I believe will be one of the defining technology companies of this decade.”

Previously, as a tech intrapreneur at Intel and Qualcomm across three decades, Kedia was credited with driving the growth of the Internet with laptop PCs, establishing mobile Internet with smartphones, and capitalizing on cloud expansion with IoT and wearable devices. He is a sought-after Chief AI Officer and CXO advisor to organizations across professional services, healthcare, financial services, and technology, and teaches AI and entrepreneurship at the University of San Diego’s Knauss School of Business and the Brink SBDC Innovation Hub. He has been recognized with the Lifetime AI Innovation Award by TiE, included in the CXO Innovators Circle by Bloomberg Tech, and inducted into the Global AI150 Hall of Fame by Constellation Research. He has been a lifelong learner at Stanford, Wharton, University of Michigan, and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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