About Us
Gordian Technologies builds advanced software infrastructure for training and deploying machine learning models at scale. By addressing fundamental limitations in GPU memory and edge inference efficiency, Gordian enables partners to achieve higher accuracy and lower computational overhead across a range of applications — from utilities to medical imaging. Our mission is to redefine what’s possible within the current boundaries of hardware.
The Minds Behind Gordian
CEO
Peter Baird joined Gordian as Chief Executive Officer in September 2025. Until June 2025, Peter served as Chief Commercial Officer for MultiSensor AI, a publicly traded enterprise software company focused on predictive maintenance and condition-based monitoring. From August 2020 to January 2025, Peter was the Chief Financial Officer for MultiSensor AI, completing a successful public listing of the company in December 2023. Prior to joining MultiSensor AI, Peter worked in South Africa at Ninety-One Asset Management as the Head of African Private Equity, and at Standard Chartered Bank as a Senior Managing Director and Head of African Private Equity. In both of these roles he managed a team of professionals investing in and managing growth companies across Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to these experiences, Peter was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, helping to build and lead the private equity and healthcare practices. Peter currently sits on the board and investment committee of TEAMFund, a healthcare venture capital firm, and he chairs the board of the African Leadership Foundation. Peter received a B.A. degree (cum laude) from Bates College, an M.A. degree in Quantitative Economics from the University of Cape Town, and an M.B.A. the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At Stanford he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Peter is also a Charted Financial Analyst.
Co- Founder & CTO
Shekar Mantha co-founded Gordian Technologies in August 2021. Prior to founding Gordian, Shekar was a long-standing leader in the embedded systems space, and a successful serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Arevo Labs (funded by Khosla Ventures) where he created finite element software for additive parts, an industry first. At Arevo Labs he was awarded seven patents on 3-D printing. Prior to Arevo Labs, Shekar was at Asurion for several years, where he led a team of 75 engineers, in developing and deploying mobile applications. At Asurion he was awarded two patents on mobile synchronization technology. At Conversay, Shekar was the V.P. of mobile development. In this role he led efforts to embed speech synthesis / recognition onto resource constrained devices. Prior to Conversay, Shekar founded Kada Systems, where he built the smallest footprint embedded real-time Java Virtual Machine. This software was adopted by Cisco Systems, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments. Shekar started his career at Bell Labs where he developed architectures for dynamically configurable communication networks and at Toshiba America where he developed a real-time MRI scanning algorithm, working around inherent constraints in Math coprocessors (the precursors to the GPU). Shekar holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science and a B.S. degree in Physics.
Dinkar Ganti
Co-Founder & VP of Software Engineering
Dinkar Ganti co-founded Gordian Technologies in August 2021. Prior to Gordian, Dinkar was a software engineer at Conduent, developing high-performance distributed enterprise blockchain systems written in Haskell / deployed on Kubernetes. Prior to Conduent, Dinkar was a software engineer at Jet.com, where he developed high-performance type-safe systems written in F#. Earlier in his career, Dinkar worked as a software engineer at JP Morgan Chase, where he developed low-latency processing of NASDAQ Level II data that peaked at 40k messages per second, and at Lehman Brothers, where he developed automated “Indications of Interest” FIX messages and low-latency DMA systems. Dinkar started his software engineering career at Life Connect where he implemented a distributed command system in Smalltalk and Java. Dinkar holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering.
Ben Snedeker
Board Member
Ben Snedeker joined the Gordian board as a Non-Executive Director in August 2021. Ben is a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Public Equities at Catalio Capital Management, LP. He is primarily responsible for managing the Catalio Public Equities portfolio, investing across innovative healthcare companies in pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, life science tools, diagnostics and data. He also serves as the Co-Head of Investments at Catalio, with a focus on identifying opportunities for the investment team to work together across the life sciences capital structure. He also serves on Catalio’s firmwide Management Committee. Prior to joining Catalio, Ben was Sector Head for Therapeutics at HealthCor Management and at PointState Capital. He began his investing career as a therapeutics analyst and portfolio manager at D.E. Shaw & Co. on the long-short healthcare equities team. Ben was also an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company in the Global Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products practice and a co-founder of McKinsey’s Philadelphia office. Ben earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. degree in Chemistry from Yale University.
Press release:
Itron and Gordian Technologies Collaborate to Bring AI-Powered Intelligence to the Grid Edge
AI at the Grid Edge Enables Utilities to Strengthen Grid Reliability
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. — Oct. 23, 2025 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water, is working with Gordian Technologies (Gordian) to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to the grid edge. Itron is enhancing its Grid Edge Intelligence (GEI) portfolio with Gordian’s AI and ML technology and enabling its developer community to access that technology through Itron’s Distributed Intelligence (DI) Developer Program. This enhancement to Itron’s GEI portfolio further enables utilities to improve grid resilience, disaster management and prevention, operational efficiency and to deliver affordable energy to customers.
Itron’s GEI portfolio features an end-to-end suite of solutions that unlock the power of data within a utility’s service territory. Gordian’s optimized software delivers ML and AI capabilities at the edge-device level and supports running inference on multiple models in parallel to maximize the benefits that can be realized. Together, the Gordian and Itron platforms can detect, analyze and classify millions of data events within milliseconds. For the utility, this unlocks even greater value from their smart infrastructure investments, lowering operational costs and improving their service.
The Gordian platform will be available later this year through Itron’s DI Developer program, allowing app developers to access this high-powered tool to deliver added value solutions for utility customers and to further enhance Itron’s GEI portfolio. Within the DI Developer platform, utilities can leverage the Gordian technology to address a wide range of use cases, such as electric vehicle connection detection and arc flash detection, that help solve operational challenges and better serve their customers. Itron first plans to apply Gordian’s technology to enhance its own anomaly detection and classification solution, using ML algorithms to classify anomalies for field investigation.
“Our vision with Gordian is to apply AI and ML across the grid edge to unlock new levels of intelligence and responsiveness for utilities. This is a powerful capability that will deliver a set of advantages which include: faster response times, lower operational costs, decentralized automation and the ability to make decisions based on real-time, site-specific data,” said Don Reeves, senior vice president of Outcomes at Itron. “Enhancing Itron’s GEI portfolio with Gordian’s AI and ML technology enables a more adaptive approach to modern grid management and we are excited about our collaboration.”
“Working together with Itron allows us to bring the power of AI and machine learning directly to the grid edge. There is a substantial set of use-cases that can leverage our technology platform and we look forward to the innovative solutions that developers create,” said Shekar Mantha, Gordian’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. “By integrating our platform with Itron’s Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio, we’re enabling utilities to unlock real-time insights, improve grid reliability and respond faster to emerging challenges.”
Itron’s DI Developer Program allows developers to create and deploy purpose-built applications to address utility challenges and implement innovative solutions that enhance the overall value of their distributed intelligence investment. Gordian is a key contributor to the Itron program, and with its AI and ML platform, Gordian enhances the developer community’s ability to deliver high-performance applications.
About Gordian
About Itron
Gordian Technologies is an edge AI software company. Gordian provides edge-AI inference platforms that are highly efficient in terms of memory and CPU/GPU usage, which allows them to run complex neural networks on resource-constrained devices (such as electric power meters). Gordian also provides end-to-end machine learning platforms that are used to train extremely high resolution, high information-density models.
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