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Stephen Ehikian
Stephen Ehikian (born 1980 or 1981) is the chief executive officer of C3 AI and former government official during the Trump administration between January and September 2025. Ehikian was appointed Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) on January 21, 2025. In March 2025, he delegated the responsibilities of Deputy Administrator to senior adviser Mike Lynch. In July 2025, he was replaced as Acting Administrator by Michael Rigas, but remained at GSA in his role as Deputy Administrator. Prior to GSA, Ehikian was the Vice President of AI Products at Salesforce and cofounded a startup named Airkit.ai.
On September 2, 2025, Ehikian announced that he would be stepping down from his role as GSA deputy administrator. On September 3, C3 AI announced that Ehikian had been appointed CEO effective September 1.
Stephen Ehikian obtained undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Yale University. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which he pursued jointly with a master of science degree in Environment and Resources.
Early in his career, Ehikian worked in the finance sector with positions at Morgan Stanley, Westbrook Partners, and SRS Investment Management.
Ehikian is from Atherton, CA. He is married to married to Andrea Conway, who was a designer at X. His brother is Brad Ehikian, partner at Palo Alto-based commercial real estate firm Premier Properties.
After completing his MBA, Stephen Ehikian served as COO of startup RelateIQ, which was founded by Palantir alumni Steve Loughlin and Adam Evans in 2011 in Palo Alto, CA. RelateIQ was a sales-intelligence startup that automatically captured data from email, calendar, phone records, and other communications to provide real-time insights and recommendations for managing customer relationships. RelateIQ raised $9 million in Series A funding from investors Accel, Morgenthaler and SV Angel. It emerged out of stealth in June 2013 announcing a $20 million Series B round lead by Formation 8 (Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale’s venture capital firm) an Accel. It then raised a $40 million Series C round in March 2014 at a $245 million valuation. In July 2014, Salesforce acquired RelateIQ in a stock swap transaction valued at $350 million in Salesforce shares, plus $40 million from RelateIQ’s cash balance, for a total acquisition price of $390 million. Ehikian and Evans continued working at Salesforce post-acquisition.
In September 2015, as part of the 2015 Dreamforce conference, RelateIQ was rebranded as SalesforceIQ. On March 13, 2020, the SalesforceIQ product was retired.
In 2017, Ehikian and Evans, left Salesforce to co-found the startup originally known as Ruist, later rebranded as Airkit, and subsequently Airkit.ai in stealth mode in Palo Alto, CA. The startup offered a low-code customer engagement platform for businesses to quickly build digital customer applications and workflows without extensive coding expertise. It charged businesses a subscription fee for the license to use its platform to build apps, and it also charged based on the volume of usage. Ehikian served as CEO and Evans as CTO. Airkit emerged from stealth mode in October 2020, announcing it had raised $28 million in funding from investors Accel (by then Loughlin was a partner at Accel), Emergence Capital, and Salesforce Ventures including a $21 million Series A round in January 2020. Airkit announced a $40 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures in May 2021.
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Stephen Ehikian
Stephen Ehikian (born 1980 or 1981) is the chief executive officer of C3 AI and former government official during the Trump administration between January and September 2025. Ehikian was appointed Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) on January 21, 2025. In March 2025, he delegated the responsibilities of Deputy Administrator to senior adviser Mike Lynch. In July 2025, he was replaced as Acting Administrator by Michael Rigas, but remained at GSA in his role as Deputy Administrator. Prior to GSA, Ehikian was the Vice President of AI Products at Salesforce and cofounded a startup named Airkit.ai.
On September 2, 2025, Ehikian announced that he would be stepping down from his role as GSA deputy administrator. On September 3, C3 AI announced that Ehikian had been appointed CEO effective September 1.
Stephen Ehikian obtained undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Yale University. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which he pursued jointly with a master of science degree in Environment and Resources.
Early in his career, Ehikian worked in the finance sector with positions at Morgan Stanley, Westbrook Partners, and SRS Investment Management.
Ehikian is from Atherton, CA. He is married to married to Andrea Conway, who was a designer at X. His brother is Brad Ehikian, partner at Palo Alto-based commercial real estate firm Premier Properties.
After completing his MBA, Stephen Ehikian served as COO of startup RelateIQ, which was founded by Palantir alumni Steve Loughlin and Adam Evans in 2011 in Palo Alto, CA. RelateIQ was a sales-intelligence startup that automatically captured data from email, calendar, phone records, and other communications to provide real-time insights and recommendations for managing customer relationships. RelateIQ raised $9 million in Series A funding from investors Accel, Morgenthaler and SV Angel. It emerged out of stealth in June 2013 announcing a $20 million Series B round lead by Formation 8 (Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale’s venture capital firm) an Accel. It then raised a $40 million Series C round in March 2014 at a $245 million valuation. In July 2014, Salesforce acquired RelateIQ in a stock swap transaction valued at $350 million in Salesforce shares, plus $40 million from RelateIQ’s cash balance, for a total acquisition price of $390 million. Ehikian and Evans continued working at Salesforce post-acquisition.
In September 2015, as part of the 2015 Dreamforce conference, RelateIQ was rebranded as SalesforceIQ. On March 13, 2020, the SalesforceIQ product was retired.
In 2017, Ehikian and Evans, left Salesforce to co-found the startup originally known as Ruist, later rebranded as Airkit, and subsequently Airkit.ai in stealth mode in Palo Alto, CA. The startup offered a low-code customer engagement platform for businesses to quickly build digital customer applications and workflows without extensive coding expertise. It charged businesses a subscription fee for the license to use its platform to build apps, and it also charged based on the volume of usage. Ehikian served as CEO and Evans as CTO. Airkit emerged from stealth mode in October 2020, announcing it had raised $28 million in funding from investors Accel (by then Loughlin was a partner at Accel), Emergence Capital, and Salesforce Ventures including a $21 million Series A round in January 2020. Airkit announced a $40 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures in May 2021.