Vishal Khera, MBA '00, was the co-founder and the President of Creative Systems and Consulting, a leading Digital Transformation services firm. He is an entrepreneur who led a Federal Consulting business helping several large U.S. federal agencies digitally transform their mission critical systems. In his role, he was responsible for overall business strategy, growth, and innovation at Creative. Under his leadership, Creative was consistently ranked in the Inc5000 fastest growing private companies from 2014 to 2020. Creative was acquired by a publicly traded global management consulting firm in Dec 2021. He is a technologist at heart and has recently founded Khera Ventures to invest in, and assist entrepreneurs seeking to bring enterprise software and advanced technology products to market. His goal is to help the next generation of entrepreneurs with their respective experiences and overcome the challenges of bringing new products to market. Prior to founding Creative, he was the Chief Architect at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond where he led IT strategy and new technology introduction programs. He also spent 8+ years as an IT strategy consultant for Gartner, one of the world’s leading management and IT strategy consulting firms. Khera serves on the Smith School's Board of Advisors.