Kinnar Vora

Vice President, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Forward Financing

Jul 2026 - Current (2 months)

Leading Forward Financing's artificial intelligence strategy and innovation. Architecting AI-native systems across lending operations, building the infrastructure and governance that enable our teams to deploy AI safely and at scale. Focused on transforming the customer experience through intelligent automation, faster decisions, and smarter risk assessment—all while keeping trust and transparency at the center. Working across all stakeholders to make lending faster, fairer, and more accessible for small business owners nationwide.

Advisor | Technology & Product Strategy

Various Startups

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)

Advising early-stage startups on product innovation and technology strategy. Collaborating with founders that are passionate about leveraging AI-driven solutions to refine product positioning, go-to-market alignment, and create scalable and impactful products. LifeMappa applies Generative AI to democratize Career & College Counseling for High School Students. It is the Waze for Career & College destinations.

Vice President of Engineering

Forward Financing

Apr 2025 - Jul 2026 (1 year 4 months)

Forward Financing is a Boston-based financial technology company that provides fast, flexible, and reliable working capital to small and medium-size businesses nationwide. By combining proprietary technology with a dedicated team of small business financing experts, Forward Financing delivers same day funding with the speed and simplicity business owners need to succeed and grow. Our mission is to build a world-class fintech company so that our customers and our people can achieve their full potential.

Advisor

Webgility

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024 (3 months)

Chief Technology Officer

Webgility

Jan 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 9 months)

Webgility is a Commerce integration platform helping thousands of SMB merchants leverage automation for increased visibility, reduced manual operations, and cut costs related to book-keeping accounting.

Senior Manager, Software Development

Amazon

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 (3 years 1 month)

Led the launch of Buy with Prime, extending Prime shopping benefits (fast shipping, free returns, and seamless checkout) to merchants’ online stores. Delivered a Order History page for Buy with Prime, a tier-1 service with stringent availability and latency requirements. Delivered the initiative from concept to launch. Drove enterprise cloud adoption at AWS EC2 Enterprise, managing a portfolio of web services focused on migration strategies and application modernization. These products were well accepted at re-Invent 2020.

Technology Advisor

Webgility Inc

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Advise the team on best practices to build a Software product, team, and process

Vice President Of Product Development

Leanplum a CleverTap company

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Leanplum is building the marketing cloud for the mobile era. Leanplum offers Omni-Messaging, Automation, Seamless App Editing, Personalization, A/B Testing, and Analytics — all in a single solution. The most successful startups and Fortune 500 companies (Grab, Macy's, Tinder, Nordstrom, Choice Hotels, TEDTalks, Expedia, Tesco, and NBC) rely on Leanplum to drive growth and foster long-term customer relationships. Delivering personal engagement in the moments that matter, Leanplum captures more than 15 billion data points each day and sends more than 5 billion push notifications per month. Leanplum was founded in 2012 by former Google engineers with years of experience in optimization and has received over $98MM in funding from top-tier VCs l

Vice President Engineering

Webgility Inc

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Webgility, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce automation software for multi-channel retail companies, managing millions of transactions for 10,000-plus online stores every month. Webgility's e-Commerce Virtual ERP is an antidote to the "app fatigue" plaguing today's online sellers. By integrating with best-of-breed online retail solutions, Webgility's Unify software anchors the Virtual ERP and brings efficiency, order, and scale to otherwise chaotic workflows and business operations. In doing so, Unify empowers online retailers to focus on their passion rather than their operations. Webgility® is a certified partner of Intuit®, QuickBooks®, Xero, and NetSuite®, and works with more than 85 e-commerce platforms (including Amazon®, eBa

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Senior Vice President of Engineering

Somnoware Healthcare Systems acquired by ResMed HealthExpense Inc

Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years 1 month)

Led engineering teams and drove product innovation across two healthcare technology companies, delivering impactful solutions in sleep management and medical expense tracking: At Somnoware Healthcare Systems, spearheaded the development of a cloud-based sleep management platform that reduced diagnosis time by 80% and significantly improved therapy adherence. The company was later acquired by ResMed. At HealthExpense, oversaw the creation of an HIPAA-certified platform that empowered employees to track healthcare costs, identify errors, and make secure digital payments, enhancing financial transparency and reducing out-of-pocket expenses.

Vice President, Product Development and Operations

Sequoia Retail Systems Acquired by Blackboard Transact

Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)

Sequoia Retail Systems is the leading independent provider of comprehensive point-of-sale, inventory control, e-commerce, and textbook management systems to colleges and universities throughout the nation. It was acquired by Blackboard Transact. Delivered a brand new Cloud-based (SaaS) and Mobile Point-Of-Sale (POS) software for the college campus. Redesigned the eCommerce portal for online food delivery. Worked closely with VeriFone (Preferred partner) on Payment API integration, enhancement, and support including the Auditors on Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) compliance requirements. Partnered with CEO and COO to maintain a direct connection between business objectives and the technol

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Director, Engineering

Lyris Inc

Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Lyris, Inc. is the first online marketing solution provider to integrate email with diverse online marketing channels to create more efficient and effective marketing organizations. The company’s flagship offering, Lyris HQ, is an all-in-one online marketing solution that combines email marketing with search, social and mobile channels, enhanced by embedded deliverability and web analytics. Recruited to transform teams to Agile methodologies as a part of a overall transformation, working closely with leadership to ensure alignment with business objectives. Quickly earned the trust of leadership resulting in an expansion of my role to lead 3 teams. Applied my skills to resolve conflicts and identify solutions to key company initiatives. Wo

Senior Manager Engineering

Starcite Inc

Jan 2001 - Jan 2010 (9 years 1 month)

* Established a team to develop Attendee Registration platform delivering 8 major and 4 minor releases on time, improving quality with each release. * Successfully transitioned the team from waterfall methodology to Agile process. * Maintained PCI compliance and oversaw SAS70 and customer certification process to meet stringent security requirements. * Led external integration projects, managing relationships with customers and vendors in online travel, payments and learning management systems. * Managed the formation and mentoring of product team in Shanghai, China, overseeing the transfer of knowledge and adherence to product functionality and company standards. * Spearheaded initiatives to address cultural and international communication

Consultant

Xoriant Corporation formerly TekEdge Inc

Jun 1999 - Jan 2001 (1 year 8 months)

* Consultant at Toytime.com building a marketing promotions engine for this e-Commerce website * Consultant at start-up company for building an architecture framework for construction auction web site.

Business Analyst

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES TCS

Jan 1995 - Jan 1999 (4 years 1 month)

* Project lead at LifeScan (Milpitas, California) for migrating to a new Document Management System (DMS) * Senior developer for NASDAQ (Rockville, Maryland) Y2K project to be migrated to web based intranet architecture.

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