Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Workday. He is also a partner at Greylock Partners and was a member of Intel's board of directors between 2014 and 2019. Bhusri has been a billionaire since 2014;^[4] as of 2021 he has a net worth of $3.1 billion.^[5]

Aneel Bhusri was born in an Indian-American family, in Pittsford, New York on February 14, 1966.^[6] He was educated at Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His first job after college was as a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley.^[7]

In 1993, Bhusri became the director of planning at PeopleSoft,^[8] then primarily a human resources software company. Later, working for David Duffield, with whom he went on to co-found Workday,^[9] he became responsible for product strategy and marketing. In 1999, he became vice chairman of the company, serving in that role until the takeover by Oracle in 2004.^[10] In the meantime, PeopleSoft had developed ERP, CRM, and other offerings, in addition to Human Resource Management.^[8]

Also since 1999, Bhusri has been a partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm which has backed companies including Facebook, Groupon, Dropbox, Tumblr and Airbnb. At Greylock he has been an investor in cloud technologies, with an emphasis on applications, data center infrastructure and middleware, and serves on the boards of a number of companies in which Greylock has invested, including Cloudera and Pure Storage.^[11]

Bhusri was interviewed by Reid Hoffman on the Masters of Scale podcast, where he talked about interviewing his first 500 employees at Workday to shape its award-winning company culture.^[20]

• 2013 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient ^[21]
• 2020 Great Place to Work CEO For All Leadership Award^[22]