Rudi Ngnepi

Board Member 

Rudi Ngnepi earned bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and has been working at NI for the last 16 years.

With a passion for entrepreneurship and talent development, Rudi co-founded a branch of National Instruments’ Planet NI program to focus on Africa. He drove public and private partnerships, developed global mentorship models, all geared to enable individuals to solve local challenges.

In 2017, he took on the role of Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning and HR Business Analytics within the Global Human Resources organization at NI. He led the organization through the modernization of recruitment across NI’s 45+ global offices and implementing recruitment strategies to meet future business needs.

In 2019, he was promoted to Global Director and launched the company’s first comprehensive new graduate strategy with a purpose of accelerating time to promotion for entry level talent with a focus on 50% diversity for new grads, a 6 weeks long onboarding program and a newly created rotation program.

In June 2021, Rudi took on a new role as Global Director, Sales Enablement Platforms, with the primary responsibility to ensure that we can effectively disseminate business content to all of our channels (direct Sales, indirect sales, partners).

Outside of work, Rudi is on the Board of Directors of the Austin Classical Guitar organization, AUTMHQ and a Vice President of the African Leadership Bridge. He has founded a dinner immersive series with a purpose of sharing culture, making connections and building communities over experiential curated meals.

He has completed 80+ dinners representing African, European and Asian cultures while exposing 3000+ people to these new under-represented cultures. He was the food sponsor for the 2022 AfroTech conference in Austin.