Aneel Bhusri

Co-founder, CEO | Workday

676th

in Fortune Global 1000

1612nd

in Forbes Global 2000

Aneel co-founded the enterprise company Workday in 2005 with Dave Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft. Workday is a cloud-based system that allows a company to combine financials, supply chain, operations, HR, and planning into one integrated system. Prior to the founding of Workday, Aneel served in various positions at PeopleSoft between 1993 and 1999, including senior VP and vice chairman of the board. Aneel received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and completed his MBA at Stanford University.

 In 2018, Anil and his wife Allison joined The Giving Pledge, committing more than half of their wealth to charitable causes. In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, Workday has delivered $10 million in donations to social justice causes and initiatives.