An Entrepreneur and Executive with over 30 years of international experience and a proven track record in business development and building enterprise products and services in High Tech, Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail Ecommerce and Telco sectors. Privileged to have worked in the Silicon Valley during the technology boom for a leading global brand, Sun Microsystems, I have made significant contributions to the J2EE platform technologies and have risen to key roles in the process. Later on, I took on key technical as well as commercial roles working with leading brands such as Symbian, Nokia, Wall Street Systems, Micros and Xoriant and built great teams, products and services.I have extensively worked with start-ups internationally helping them with technology & business development and strategy, product development & positioning, strategic alliances & partnerships and operations. I have also had the opportunity to contribute to mergers and acquisitions during my career with a primary focus on change management, technical due diligence and IP.