ZenOptics Appoints Heena Sood as Chief Executive Officer; Saurbh Khera Assumes Role of Executive Chairman

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Saurbh Khera

Executive Chairman

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Heena Sood

Chief Executive Officer

San Jose, CA, USA—ZenOptics, a recognized leader in unified analytics intelligence and governance, is excited to announce the appointment of Heena Sood as Chief Executive Officer. Sood, as Co-Founder of ZenOptics, previously held the position of Chief Technology and Product Officer. She has been instrumental in delivering product innovation, advanced analytics automation, and a collaborative, AI-driven platform that empowers organizations to unlock the full value of their data and analytics resources.

Sood’s elevation to CEO marks a significant milestone in women’s leadership within the technology and analytics industry, further exemplifying ZenOptics’ commitment to diversity, vision, and global impact.

Sood succeeds Saurbh Khera, ZenOptics’ Founder and previous CEO, who was appointed to the role of Executive Chairman. Khera’s vision and dedication have shaped ZenOptics into a trusted analytics intelligence platform and created the Analytics Catalog software category. As Executive Chairman, Khera will focus on strategic initiatives, partnerships, and nurturing ZenOptics’ culture of excellence.

“Heena’s leadership and dedication to customer success will drive ZenOptics into its next phase of transformative growth,” said Saurbh Khera, Executive Chairman. “She embodies the culture of innovation and teamwork we’ve built, and her accomplishment is a testament to the importance of women’s leadership in technology. As Executive Chairman, I look forward to supporting her and accelerating our mission to empower data-driven organizations everywhere.”

“I am excited and honored to serve as the next CEO at ZenOptics and to continue working with Saurbh in his new position as Executive Chairman,” said Sood. “Guided by our culture of transparency, teamwork, and trust, we will continue enabling our customers to discover, trust, and utilize enterprise information for confident decision-making. I am excited to lead our talented team and champion innovation, diversity, and customer impact worldwide.”

ZenOptics delivers a unified platform for cataloging and managing BI, analytics, and data assets—bringing together reports, dashboards, KPIs, and underlying data into a single source of truth. As both an analytics aggregator and cataloging system, ZenOptics streamlines analytics access and discovery while enabling governance and promoting collaboration so that organizations can modernize, scale, and maximize the value of their analytics investments.

About ZenOptics

ZenOptics, recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, empowers organizations to maximize the value of their data and analytics assets by centralizing discovery, governance, and usage management across the data and analytics ecosystem. Founded by Heena Sood and Saurbh Khera and headquartered in San Jose, California, ZenOptics serves enterprises determined to drive trust, clarity, and ROI from analytics. Visit www.zenoptics.com for more information.

Media Contact:
Nitash Juyal
ZenOptics, Inc.
nitash@zenoptics.com

Published September 24, 2025
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ZenOptics helps organizations drive increased value from their analytics assets by improving the ability to discover information, trust it, and ultimately use it for improving decision confidence. Through our integrated platform, organizations can provide business users with a centralized portal to streamline the searchability, access, and use of analytics from across the entire ecosystem of tools and applications.

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