Sunil Karkera

Founder, Chief Engineer Founder, Chief Engineer Soul of the Machine

Sunil is the founder of Soul of the Machine, a Silicon Valley based AI-native digital consulting company dedicated to reimagining enterprise AI. His career began as an embedded systems engineer at Lockheed and later launched and successfully exited an enterprise mobile startup in the late 1990s. Sunil went on to hold leadership roles at Fox Interactive, and in 2007 cofounded Registria, which became the ecommerce backbone for brands like Nest until its acquisition in 2012. After returning to study design, he founded TCS Interactive, served as CEO of Designit, President at fuseproject, and most recently CEO of BORN, before founding Soul of the Machine with his long-time collaborators. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Mangalore University and a master’s in fine arts from the University of Zurich.