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Dinakara Nagalla is the Founder and CEO of Menthra, an AI emotional wellbeing platform focused on making personalized, accessible, and continuous support available to individuals worldwide.

An entrepreneur and technologist with more than 25 years of experience, Dinakara has built and scaled mission-critical platforms across aviation, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence. He has led large-scale technology initiatives serving global organizations including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Embraer. He holds two US patents related to aviation maintenance technology.

Before founding Menthra, Dinakara founded and scaled several ventures, most notably EmpowerMX, an aviation maintenance software company whose platform came to support fleet operations for airlines around the world. The company was acquired by IFS in 2024. Earlier in his career, he held senior technology and leadership roles at American Airlines, Sabre Airline Solutions, and EDS.

Driven by a belief that technology should solve meaningful human challenges, Dinakara founded Menthra to address the growing need for accessible emotional wellbeing support. Under his leadership, the platform combines artificial intelligence with human expertise to deliver personalized, privacy-first care that helps people navigate emotional challenges.

He is also the author of Becoming Human: Embracing Imperfection and Finding Purpose, a book exploring the relationship between achievement, identity, and meaning in a rapidly changing world. As a speaker and thought leader, he examines the intersection of technology, humanity, and purpose — and how advances in artificial intelligence can help people become more connected to themselves and to one another, rather than more disconnected from what makes us human.

He recently delivered a TEDx talk, The Algorithm That Broke Me, on the relationship between technology, personal transformation, and emotional wellbeing.