Co-FounderGigafact
Chandran Sankaran is founder and CEO of Gigafact, a nonprofit, tech-forward network of local newsrooms that fact-check claims on social media. He has also founded Repustar, an incubator of technologies to strengthen societal immune systems against online misinformation. He is a judge for the annual Mirror Awards for excellence in media industry reporting.
Sankaran has previously been a successful Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, having built two companies that helped change how corporations manage their supply chains and financial management processes. He graduated from Yale University with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He received an undergraduate engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras where he was the recipient of the Governor’s Medal.