Tanuj Thapliyal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kos.ai, which builds virtual finance employees that automate invoice reviews, purchase orders and other finance workflows for capital-intensive industries such as data centers, defense and energy. He previously co-founded Spot AI, the video-intelligence company, and led it as CEO from 2018 to 2024; earlier he co-founded Mellow Research and was a hardware program engineer at Meraki. He holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA.