Punit leads venture investments for Hewlett Packard Pathfinder where he focuses on enterprise applications, devops, infrastructure, edge and cloud services.Prior to HPE, Punit was a Director of Corporate Development at AWS, Prior to Amazon, Punit was the Managing Director of Singtel Innov8, leading the fund’s US and Israel efforts. He joined Innov8 shortly after the fund was formalized as an LP-GP structure and spent almost a decade helping the fund grow to more than 120 investments globally. Punit started his venture career at Panorama Capital during its spinout from JPMorgan Partners.Punit is an approachable venture capitalist, corporate strategist and active board member adding value across all stages of the startup lifecycle including Attivo (acq. Sentinel One), Shape Security (acq. F5), TubeMogul (IPO, acq. Adobe), Qubole (acq. Idera), Bitglass (acq. Forcepoint), and Nexage (acq. MM, Yahoo). He is also a graduate of the hyper-connected Kauffman Fellows Program where he remains active as a society member, lecturer and mentor.

The Kauffman Fellowship is a prestigious mentorship and leadership development program dedicated exclusively to advancing best practices in the world of innovation investing. Class 13 Fellow, Class 24 Mentor. www.kauffmanfellows.org

Deal lead managing end-to-end investments and acquisition strategy supporting Amazon’s $70B+ enterprise cloud business, working closely with senior executives to generate a pipeline of inorganic opportunities.

Managing Director at a US$250M independent evergreen venture fund backed by the Singtel Group, driving global technology investments.Investor (Board Director or Observer) in AiCure, Myriota, Synack, Zeotap, BitSight, Intricately, Attivo (acq Sentinel One), Shape Security (acq. F5), TubeMogul (TUBE, Acq. Adobe), Qubole (acq. Idara), Neura (acq. Otonomo), Edmodo (acq. Net Dragon), Nexage (acq. Millennial Media), Baynote (acq. KIBO) and Tempo.ai (acq. Salesforce). Also actively managed investments in Balbix, Demyst, Countertack, Teridion and Bitglass (acq by ForcePoint).

Investor/Managed investments in Validity (acq Synaptics), 9th Decimal (acq. InMotion), Neoconix (acq. UMC), Fixmo (acq. Good), and Tynt (acq. 33 Across)

• Led early stage investment team of 14 members focused on seed funding of Univ. of Michigan technologies.• Worked closely with leading professors, the technology transfer office and local venture capitalists to source deals.• Managed the fund’s due diligence and evaluation process, establishing processes to identify promising candidates andstructure investments.• Successfully sourced and closed on the fund’s first deal leading to the founding seed investment in Arbor Photonics (acq. nLight).

• Led thorough due diligence for prospective deals developing investment theses in a number of deep tech areas including biofuels, server energy control systems, and high energy laser systems. • Participated in management of existing portfolio companies including advising strategy through board meetings.• Generated deal flow by mentoring entrepreneurs and university professors with prospective deals.

• Developed a market entry and growth strategy for electronic chemicals in Asia Pacific. • Analyzed the market potential for various industry segment including Flat Panel Display, Light Emitting Diodes, Solar, and Semiconductors.

• Led packaging and materials integration efforts for a US government (DARPA) funded program: led product design, developed novel processes, coordinated programs in three sites worldwide, wrote grant proposals, budgeting and presenting to grant reviewers resulting in funding of $11M over four years.• Led materials development and testing programs jointly with multiple vendors interactions ultimately leading to joint development partnerships to enable technology transition from research to product.• Designed and implemented field replaceable optoelectronic modules compatible with existing products. Integrated nano-structures into silicon devices to enable on-chip optics.