Vinod Sood

Co-Founder & MD Hughes Systique. Early Advisor to Ritesh Agarwal OYO

Vinod Sood is Co-Founder & Managing Director at Hughes Systique Corporation (HSC); a Digital Engineering services & solutions company. Prior to his current role, he was Head of Global Engineering and R&D at Hughes Software Systems (HSS) and served on its Board as well. Before HSS, Vinod worked with C-DOT where he was part of the core team which designed India 1st Digital Switch.

Vinod is a veteran of hi-tech software industry, during his career span of 38 years he has built high performance teams at premier R&D organizations in India.

Vinod has an exceptional track record of building profitable and sustainable institutions from conceptualization to maturity.He was member of NASSCOM Engineering R&D council, Chair of the Northern Regional Council and core member of the NASSCOM DeepTech club. He is member of CII’s National AI forum and Co-Chair of CII Regional Committee on Diglta Transformation & AI.

He is on the Advisory Boards/Committees of Shoolini University Solan, K.R. Mangalam University Gurgaon, Institute of Informatics and Communications, University of Delhi, SP Jain Institute of Mamangement & Research Mumbai and LPU Jalandhar. Vinod is involved in guiding and mentoring young entrepreneurs and startups and is on the Board of some of these companies.

He is a TiE Charter member and is part of several CII, NASSCOM and TiE juries to identify emerging startups and innovative product companies. Vinod is a distinguished alumni awardee of PEC Chandigarh from where he graduated with a Gold Medal.