Apurva Kumar Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

CITYDATA.ai measures the presence, activity, and movement patterns of people to build mobility digital twins for smarter cities and real-world businesses

CitySDK collects, curates, and provides earth observation AI/ML ground truth training data sets on a global scale.

(Acquired by Nikon)Exvision is a spin-out venture from the University of Tokyo focused on high-speed computer vision for automotive, sports, bio-medical, industrial automation, and robotics.

(Subsidiary of BlueStacks)Apu Kumar built and managed the GamePop product, service and business from soup to nuts. Apu established all major accounts and strategic partnership with cable operators, MSO, mobile operators, channel partners and retailers to distribute GamePop as a white-label product and gaming service, growing the business from zero to $xx M over 12 months. Apu was responsible for all aspects of the product life cycle: console design, controller design, product management, SoC / ODM / vendor selection, supply chain management, hardware manufacturing, software integration, UX customization, games / apps / media content acquisition, compliance certification, packaging, logistics and delivery operations. GamePop is part of BlueStack Systems, Inc.

Campbell, California, Us

(#1 Android emulator, +1 billion monthly game sessions)As the head of global sales, corporate development and field operations for BlueStacks. Apu built the channel sales business for BlueStacks by partnering with big brand device manufacturers like Lenovo, Asus, and through strategic alliances with AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung and major app stores. Apu also established BlueStacks internationally in Asia, with a focus on China and Japan where he developed the business from zero to $xxM by partnering with the largest Internet companies, evangelizing the platform to the developer ecosystem, partnering with top Android game developers to publish games through the BlueStacks platform and by driving monetization through creative deal-making.

Campbell, Ca, Us

(Acquired by Hewlett-Packard)Apu successfully executed on the company’s strategic growth initiatives around next-gen products, cloud services, security and virtualization solutions. Apu was responsible for sales and marketing strategy, planning and operational execution for the entire portfolio of software applications and cloud services, resulting in +70 design wins and +$80M in revenues over two years. Apu actively managed international field operations for global distribution agreements with major OEM and ODM customers including Dell, Samsung, Sony, NEC, FIC and ECS. Apu was also instrumental in seeding a rich funnel of new prospects including Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Compal, Quanta and Wistron. In June 2010, Apu led the M&A negotiations for the strategic acquisition of the HyperSpace business unit by Hewlett-Packard.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Apu was wholly accountable for the daily leadership and operational execution of the "Software and Services Attach" division, comprised of 5 disciplines: Creative Design, Product Marketing, Program Management, Software Development and Delivery Operations. Apu's leadership was pivotal in growing the business to +$400 million at +90% operating profit by ensuring on-time and error-free operational delivery of the entire portfolio of bounty and revenue-share partnerships with Symantec, McAfee, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Wild Tangent, eBay, Skype, Microsoft, Pandora. Apu spearheaded the company-wide UX program to achieve consistency in software experience design with UX toolkits and SDKs, achieving 50% reduction in cost by building in-house expertise and limiting spend on external design vendors. Apu was presented the HP Circle Award for outstanding achievements in UI and user experience design. Apu's software products and services have been deployed / shipped on +80 million HP notebook and desktop computers.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Established VoIP as a new business category. Negotiated with leading Internet & Voice-over-IP service providers and executed global distribution deals.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Achieved 90% revenue growth by promoting wireless, broadband, dial-up Internet services through contextual software experiences on consumer desktop and notebook computers.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Conceptualized a new wireless software platform for HP’s smart handheld (iPaq) devices. Managed multi-million dollar outsourcing and off-shoring projects to productize the concept.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Apu expanded mySimon’s shopping categories and merchant partners by analyzing consumer trends, mining search patterns, and maximized customer retention through search personalization.

(Acquired by CNET)Apu was a key member of the core engineering team that launched mySimon as the leader in online comparison shopping, leading to the acquisition by CNET Networks for $700 million

Ms, Engineering & Earth Sciences

Bs, Engineering

Computer Science