Vivek Sharma has extensive experience building and growing profitable businesses through the application of digital technology, with roles spanning CEO & Founder, eCommerce and product leader, Fortune 500 board director, data science professor and strategy consultant. Vivek is the CEO of InStride, a strategic enterprise education company enabling employers to provide career-boosting degrees to their employees, through leading global universities across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Australia. Vivek is also an adjunct professor of data science at the University of Southern California, where he teaches business innovation to graduate students at the Marshall School of Business, and authors a blog on business innovation. Vivek founded InStride in 2019 after six years of executive leadership at The Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles.