Anukool Lakhina is co-founder and CEO of BurnBot, a South San Francisco company that builds and operates remote controlled machines for wildfire fuel reduction and prescribed burns. He holds a PhD from Boston University. Before BurnBot he founded Guavus, a network analytics company that raised more than $140 million and was later acquired by Thales, where he stayed on as CEO for over a decade. He also co-founded a disaster resilience venture called Wonder Labs and was a partner at the climate-focused fund Convective.