Sajan Pillai

Sajan Pillai is CEO of UST Global. He led the company’s founding team of just twenty people in 1999. Eighteen years later, UST Global has grown to more than 18,000 employees operating in twenty-one countries around the globe.

His vision has made him a trusted partner to the national leaders of Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Rwanda, Panama, Costa Rica, Russia, and Kazakhstan, and he is in discussions with many of them to establish digital and technology centers in their countries.

Sajan is as enthusiastic about nonprofit work as he is about business and serves on the boards of multiple nonprofit organizations, including the California Science Center, The Global Virus Network, Centro Fox in Mexico, and PEACE One Day Corporate Coalition.

Sajan holds an engineering degree from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Science, technology, community, and the arts inspire him as he engages in community initiatives in and around Orange County, California, where he lives with his family