# Vikas Arora joins as Co-Founder and CSO

> The Grideōs strategy seat is now on the record. What Vik owns, and why the role exists before the headcount does.

Source: https://grideos.com/dispatches/005-vikas-arora-joins-as-co-founder-and-cso
Publisher: Grideōs (Grideos Global Corp.), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Updated: 2026-10-16

Dispatch 005. Published 2026-07-11. Updated 2026-10-16.

Vikas Arora has joined Grideōs as Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Vik shapes where Grideōs goes next and the terms it goes there on, and leads strategy from distribution structure to the data the record produces.

## Why the role exists before the headcount does

A company that sells trust has to decide early who it works with, how its systems reach customers and what happens to the records they produce. Those choices are hard to reverse later, so they get an owner from the start.