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 industrial predictive maintenance. Our mission is to enable future edge AI in resource constrained devices.
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. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At Stanford he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Peter is also a Chartered 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.
Co- Founder & Board Member
Ajay Mantha co-founded Gordian Technologies in 2021 and serves on its Board of Directors. Ajay is an investor, business builder, and software developer. He is currently a Portfolio Manager at Catalio Capital, where he leads the firm's AI investing, with a primary focus on healthcare. Before joining Catalio, Ajay held portfolio manager and analyst roles at Zimmer Partners, Bain Capital, and D.E. Shaw. He began his career at McKinsey & Company in the firm's healthcare practice. Ajay holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.