Start Smart Labs/Start Smart Ventures is an early stage investor in startups that are developing Enterprise SaaS solutions, helping those companies move from concept to a running business. We provide advice, coaching and mentoring to entrepreneurs. The SSL team works closely with the startup management team in all aspects of the business, including product planning and positioning, marketing, engineering management and international issues, with a personal, customized approach. It addresses the needs of the startup with a long-term commitment, leveraging a network of top Angel investors, VCs, mentors and partners. Start Smart Labs also has a subsidiary in Chennai India, StartSmart Labs India Private Limited, enabling SSL to provide high quality engineering resources to the SSL portfolio companies.

StartSmart Labs India provides engineering resources to the portfolio companies of Start Smart Labs in a "captive team" model. Software, DevOps, Quality and Customer Support engineers are hired specifically for the portfolio company, working closely with the management to build an integrated, fully functional team in Chennai. Our office is in the IIT Madras Research Park and we have a close alliance with IIT Madras, giving us access to great interns, candidates and leading professors.In addition, we are part of the startup scene in India with one current investment in an Indian based startup - InnovAccer, with more to follow.

SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study and development by a team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo and Google. The end result is a radically different model that brings unparalleled firepower at the seed stage to solve the biggest entrepreneur pain points. Our distributed network approach provides expert advice from some of the world's best entrepreneurs, product & engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry. We have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting exceptional talent, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational & community events. We don’t follow the crowd, and almost always lead our investment rounds as the first institutional investors in exceptional companies. You can read more about SignalFire at: https://medium.com/signalfire-fund

Aqfer is enabling the next generation of Data-Centric Marketing Architectures by building out support for Enterprise Marketing Data Lakes.

Altiscale offers the first cloud service purpose-built to run Apache Hadoop. We run the latest version of Hadoop on custom infrastructure, augmented with Apache Hive, Pig, and Oozie, and with first-class support for Python, R, and Ruby. Altiscale's infrastructure is faster, more reliable, easier to use, and more affordable than alternatives.I do whatever it takes to make the team and the company successful!

Drive cross-functional engineering transformation programs including development tools and processes, including agile transformation.

Cambridge West Ventures is a new firm designed to power innovation by providing resources to early stage start-ups. I manage the operation, finding and investing in exciting start-ups, building the Cambridge West Ventures Circle of Experts (CoE).

Active adviser to the CEO of Blancspot Media, a new breed of media company that is creating a market for people to self-organize around real-time global and local news events. The integrated mobile and online service enables users, specifically, young adults, to engage their interests and passions in order to create and inspired and empowering social news experience unlike anything currently available in the market.

Remained an advisor to TimeBridge after leaving VP of Engineering and Operations position.

Created efficient multi-site engineering operation (San Francisco and Rehovot Israel).- Introduced agile development methodologies and establish two-week release cycles.- Hired a Customer Support Manager and built a responsive support organization.

Volunteer Mentor for mid-level women managers. Successful mentoring relationships with four mentees, in 2001 - 2003 and in 2008 - 2009.

I built and managed a research organization, closely aligned with UC Berkeley, to provide innovation and advanced development in social and mobile media to Yahoo! product teams using a rapid iteration model.- Hired research scientists/engineers, user interaction designers, an office manager and 20+ interns; established teams and framework advanced prototype development, deployment and product integration.- Built numerous publicly released prototypes as a basis for research and informing product roadmaps.

Stata Labs was acquired by Yahoo. I managed all operational aspects of transition from Stata Labs to Yahoo!: development, IT, HR, and facilities.

Built product development organization, consisting of Product Management and Engineering, then added responsibility for support, operations, HR and office administration. - Introduced Scrum development process to move the development organization to the next stage of quality and predictable delivery. This was a distributed development organization – San Mateo, CA and Chennai, India.- Produced multiple versions of two products: the flagship search-based email product, Bloomba; and SAProxy Pro, a leading desktop anti-spam product.

Managed multi-disciplinary engineering team of 30+ people, consisting of Development, Quality Assurance, Documentation, Project Management and third-level support.

Built the engineering team, development process and organizational structure. Doubled the size of the Engineering team, including extensive staff training in the use of the advanced features of the Windows NT environment and Oracle database.

Led all technical departments of the company (Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance, Documentation and Technical Support).

Managed the strategy and delivery of Data Warehousing, centered on Sybase IQ, an advanced decision support engine designed for rapid deployment of data marts and data warehouses.

Software Planning Manager for Alpha, the first 64-bit system.Group Engineering Manager for the Unix Development Environment.Built and managed DEC's first development center in Bangalore, India.