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Milpitas, California, Us

DisplayRide is leveraging AI/ML, IoT and 5G, to transform safety in mobility. In addition, it is also leveraging massive amounts of rich video data to enable sophisticated GenAI models in numerous market verticals. Responsible for vision, strategy, fund-raise, marketing/sales, business development etc. Basically, do whatever is required with creativity, integrity, and relentless execution. * Conceived & launched a category-defining solutions: Rideshare Monitoring Platform, Delivery Monitoring Platform to address safety concerns in the rideshare and adjunct markets. Extended portfolio to the Repossession market with disruptive solutions. Also built a framework to leverage crowdsourced public data in numerous use cases - called RoadData.AI. Positioning it to be the largest intelligent real-time road data platform. Impact Innovation Award Finalist, Stanford U. Ranked #1 amongst 'Best dash cams for Rideshare Drivers 2023(Rideshare Guy). Maintained position for 2024.* Raised pre-seed & seed venture capital * Established go-to-market partnership with Vodafone to deliver 'Rideshare Monitoring as a Service' (RMaaS) - first such service globally. * Successfully leading the sales efforts in the US Rideshare segment, including D2C (direct to rideshare drivers), partnering with Insurers, Fleet Owners & drivers unions in the Gig Ecosystem.* Extending portfolio with innovative solutions for the Repossession, Driving Schools, Child transportation, NEMT segments. * Established strategic partnerships with Buckle Insurance, NVIDIA, Stable Insurance, T-Mobile etc.* Conceived/leveraging platform to monetize millions of miles of data collection in new markets* Selected to the Google Cloud Startup program - which provides $ 350 K worth of resources to help us to develop RoadData.AI

Provide marketing and other critical go-to-market guidance for growth company focused on delivering Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technology solutions for the education (STEM) market.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Led company delivering innovative IT infrastructure and SaaS solutions for small/medium enterprises and the Ed-Tech market. Promoted to CEO; P&L Responsibility. Pivoted from sole focus on SMEs to Ed-Tech market. Successfully conceived & deployed innovative flagship education technology solution (C3 - the Classroom Content Cloud) in 30+ countries, serving approximately 0.6 Million students. This solution was focused on delivering digitized content in schools with no/limited broadband access. Achieved 40% market share and turned around the company to profitability for the first time, through aggressive market expansion and reduced operating costs. Attained highest revenues/GM in company history.Prepared company for merger/acquisition to fully leverage value.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

As COO, was responsible for all day to day operations and also Finance/Accounting, Support & HR functions (in addition to Marketing & Alliances). Promoted into this position. Championed with the Board & successfully pivoted company in to the education-technology market, which subsequently became its main focus (from being solely an unified communications company). And helped company become leader in this market segment; Recognized as co-founder for these efforts. Conceived and oversaw development of category-defining education-technology products which have been deployed globally in the thousands. Also, earned recognition as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Challenger finalist in the unified communications category. Setup the marketing organization, hired a world class team & managed budgets; Defined marketing strategy/plans, and was intimately involved in all aspects of the digital marketing (Website, Social media, SEO, Analytics etc), PR, branding, campaigns and market development. Ran successful branding campaigns (e.g. School 2.0, c3 etc.), cultivated relationships with press & analysts in numerous countries, demonstrated thought leadership & helped create a global brand (c3) successfully. Established strategic/operational partnerships with Intel, Microsoft, Google, Ericsson, Britannica, etc to accelerate market success through customized product development, bundling and brand association. Founding member of Millennium@EDU, a multi-company strategic effort targeting 15M students in developing countries for comprehensive eLearning solutions. Aligned with United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. Reached ~ 2 M students thus far.Recruited leading thought leaders for advisory board incl. Dr. Chris Dede (Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Presidential council of Educators)

Norcross, Georgia, Us

ADVA is a leading provider of metro optical networking solutions (2017 Revenues: ~$ 600M; headcount ~1500) Recruited to head marketing; subsequently, extended to business developmentEstablished professional marketing and sales support organization to position as a leading global provider of optical networking solutions. Developed brand identity, web and online assets, and marketing, sales and product collateral. Lead global team and managed multi-million dollar budget. Spokesperson. Established & developed largest channel for the North America market (Fujitsu) for optical networking and ethernet portfolio leading to over $ 50 M in sales over 2004-2008. Spearheaded acquisition and successful integration of Covaro Networks, a provider of Ethernet solutions. Popularized little known technology (Carrier Ethernet; that has since become a global standard) by authoring first book on this technology ('Delivering Carrier Ethernet, McGraw Hill 2007) in conjunction with leaders in industry/technology & Dr. Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet).

* Established partnerships in Storage Area Networking (SAN) segments for this startup focused on developing Metro Optical Networking solutions. * Branded Sorrento as the premier infrastructure provider of SAN optical solutions.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Served in multiple roles, from software development through product planning & implementation to management of the company’s then biggest engineering initiative - deploying fiber technologies across the country.* Led engineering group of ~ 100 and successfully implemented Billion dollar multi-year program to deploy SONET and DWDM-based optical network across the US.* Principal product planner for Toll-free services (then largest revenue product line at Sprint). Identified & defined several new network features, and oversaw their implementation in the Sprint network. * Turned product/feature failure at strategic client (Apple) in to a success story. * Developed software to automate testing of Nortel DMS 250 switch loads. In recognition of my contribution & impact to the company, Sprint awarded me a paid sabbatical to allow me to pursue a graduate degree at MIT - a first at Sprint.

S.M (Master Of Science), Management Of Technology

M.S., Computer Science

Graduate Course, Business & Legal Implications Of The Internet (Joint Offering W Harvard Business & Harvard Law)

Mba Coursework, Business Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering