Being a co-author of The First Mile(John Wiley), a book on startups commissioned by TIE, largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world, put me on the path of becoming an author, Speaker, serial entrepreneur and startup educator/Mentor. I am the Founder of Pitch Global, .a satellite of US govt agency for funneling SBDA Norcal’s ambitious target of doubling of $ 500 m (in 2020) of assistance/Mentoring to the tech startup eco system in Silicon Valley and a global platform for entrepreneurial education and investor events in in SF, LA, London& virtual all listed at www.pitchglobal.eventbrite.com. Recently I have co-founded Silicon Valley Access Inc with someone who is a policy advisor to Head of States to focus on the US India Innovation & Funding corridor.I started my career as a Senior Management Trainee of HCL Hewlett Packard, then India’s largest IT company. I worked in Strategy and Leadership hiring with the American CEO of their Consulting division while it was getting spun off into HCL Technologies(presently $ 10 b in revenues). I shifted to Business Development and joined a successful startup in silicon valley after which I was recruited as a Co-founder for Biztech, a strategy& outsourcing leadership company, whose Chairman and CEO were former Partners of Mckinsey and Bain respectively. We were acquired by TCG Software, outsourcing arm of Private equity and VC funds affiliated to George Soros where I became part of the Leadership team and headed the Silicon Valley operations and helped leverage almost $ 250 m in investments of Quantum Industrial Fund, Winston Fund, (PC)Chatterjee Fund Management etc in companies like Perkin Elmer("PKI"), Sybase(acquired by SAP for $ 5b), Selectica(went IPO), Oblix(acquired by Oracle).