# Arun Rao

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Arun Rao, director of product management at NVIDIA, co-leads product for Nemotron, NVIDIA’s family of open-weight models. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he held ML product roles at Meta and Amazon Music, including setting up the evaluations organization in what is now Meta Superintelligence Labs and leading product for Meta’s Ads Core Machine Learning group. He was co-founder and CEO of Starbutter AI, a virtual assistant startup. Arun spent the early part of his career in finance as a quantitative trader and portfolio manager at PIMCO, where he traded a multi-billion dollar MBS and high-yield bond and derivatives portfolio. Arun is a graduate of UCLA Anderson, the University of Arizona College of Law, and of the Wharton School and the College at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an adjunct professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management.