Vikrum Aiyer is Head of Global Public Policy at Heirloom Carbon, where his team works to align climate policy, workforce development strategies, and legislative affairs to accelerate carbon mineralization sciences that can remove greenhouse gasses from the air, in support of our UN climate goals.

He previously held roles in the Obama Administration including as senior policy advisor in the White House National Economic Council, and as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. In these capacities, he served as the principal political and policy advisor to the undersecretary of commerce and coordinated a $3.2B budget, in support of 13,000 employees, to execute the daily operations, priorities, and global communications of the President’s intellectual property & STEM agenda. In 2016 Aiyer led a U.S. delegation to Cuba to reset relations between the two nations patent offices, and served on Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot Task Force, to accelerate progress towards a cure by fast tracking immunology patenting. Aiyer also helped steer investments in several advanced manufacturing technologies including smart fabrics, autonomous vehicles, high performance computing, and next generation semiconductors through the National Network of Manufacturing Hubs.

Aiyer also served as the global vice president of the start-up Postmates, where he oversaw the public policy & communications team, led a multimillion dollar effort to reform California’s safety net, and led negotiations with labor unions & the Newsom Administration to establish new worker laws for the gig economy. Aiyer was also Deputy Division Director in the ACLU's national political team where his team managed the political response to the attacks on transgender rights and the reversal of abortion rights in America. 

Aiyer has also served on the communications team of Senator Ed Markey (D-MA); Mayor Adrian Fenty (D-Washington, D.C.); and the Democratic National Conventions in 2012 and 2016. Vikrum has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and the San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40. And in 2025 he was appointed a Senior Fellow to the University of California at Berkeley’s Center on Law & Business. Given his role helping startups navigate regulatory inflection points across AI, fusion, gig economy platforms and energy policy he serves as an advisor to the CEO’s of Pano.ai (an AI Hardware company) and Focused Energy (a fusion company). Aiyer is also a board member to a range of civic, cultural, and economic development organizations — where he sits on the Workforce Investment Board for San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie; is a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations; and is a Prelude Member of the San Francisco Symphony.