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Kumar Erramilli

Co-founder & CTO, ACTO

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Kumar Erramilli co-founded ACTO in 2014 with University of Waterloo roommates Parth Khanna and Kapil Kalra, and is the Toronto company's chief technology officer. ACTO sells education and engagement software to life sciences companies, training the field teams that promote drugs and medical devices. Before ACTO he worked at IBM and Research In Motion.

Kumar hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Kumar co-founded ACTO, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Who is Kumar Erramilli?

ACTO's story page, checked 2026-09-20, names him as one of three co-founders and says Parth Khanna, Kapil Kalra and Kumar Erramilli "met and were roommates as undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo". The same page says ACTO was founded on July 21, 2014.

What is his role at ACTO today?

ACTO's about page, checked 2026-09-20, lists him on the leadership team as Chief Technology Officer, alongside Parth Khanna (CEO) and Kapil Kalra (Chief Revenue Officer).

What did he do before ACTO?

The DMZ's expert-in-residence profile for him, checked 2026-09-20, says he worked in software development at IBM and Research In Motion (BlackBerry), founded CompanyID and co-founded PaperDoDo before ACTO, and that he "leads a lean and nimble tech team that is changing healthcare by disrupting the way drugs and devices are commercialized".

What has he said publicly about AI in life sciences?

In a PM360 Q&A published 2025-05-08, checked 2026-09-20, he said: "In this AI boom, one thing the industry was missing was understanding how you use AI to drive adoption and engagement by users in their daily lives."

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