I am excited to be working with the CEO of Kagi (Vlad Prelovac) and his team. They are driving a new chapter in Paid Search and Web Browsing. Kagi search is a private, secure, and clean (no Ads) search engine. Kagi Search delivers fast, and accurate search results with a great user interface. Orion is a web browser that brings the best of all the browsers with a fast and clean interface. Kagi is in private beta and accepting invites at https://kagi.com/. Orion is also in private beta and accepting invites at https://browser.kagi.com/. both of these products will be going into public beta very soon and users can signup for the service.

Board Advisor to numerous startup companies and nonprofits and for several years. Member of Entrepreneur organizations:• Alliance of Angels, a group of “angel” investors in the Northwest that provides money and mentor-ships to startups.• TiE, a nonprofit community focusing on supporting and fostering young entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding.

Growing your business with innovation and efficiency. Delivering simple, implementable, measurable, innovative solutions for complex challenges in strategy, operations, product line management, security, and privacy.Services - Innovative Products and Brands, Client an Operations Excellence, and Technology Transformation. Proprietary 5 step process to unlock simple implementable solutions that will drive growth. Built on successful experience in consumer, enterprise, small business for both products and services.

Parv.AI is a AI/ML/NLP SaaS Application that is focused on empowering company employees to realize their career vision. Our goal is to uncover employees’ talent and aspirations by building their career roadmaps and enabling achieve their career vision​. We also want to ensure that the organizations’ productivity can be accelerated by improving employee satisfaction and retention. We will provide beenfits to both the employees and the company managers/leaders and the HR leaders.

Oversee our industry-leading web hosting and web pro services business, driving best in class performance and service for millions of web developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to help bring their ideas to life online.

Joined a “startup” group in Kindle focusing on Education (Higher Education and K12) content and services. Responsible for the strategy and P& L for education segment. Growing the business over 100% in revenue every year. Led the acquisition and successful integration of TenMarks (a K12 Math adaptive learning company). Acquisition approval went up to the CEO. Leading a geographically dispersed team of three SW development organizations, product management, technical management, institutional sales force (inside and outside sales). Managed teams in Seattle and California. • Delivered industry leading content distribution and discovery platform (Whispercast) for K12 and Higher Ed. Led the team in developing an approved three-year roadmap.• Working with the TenMarks leadership team drove a reprioritization of the roadmap in Jan 2014, leading to a new product introduction in Nov 2014. The new product, TenMarks Teach, was released nine months from start of the project. This product is delivering on the promise of the digital learning for Math.• Drove all accessibility features and enterprise feature across Kindle Tablets. Worked cross-functionally across 48 teams to release the first Amazon tablet supporting Accessibility in fall 2013. Drove release of key enterprise features (encryption, WPA support, Kerberos authentication) for all Kindle HW.• Two patents in application for SW Services innovation.

Core member of the original team, who incubated the project, presented the project to senior management, worked through the “green light” process of the project and was then asked to build a team to execute on the product. Drove the project, not just from HW but also from the perspective of user experience. Drove the product to meet user requirements from pre-sale experience to actual usage experience in various customer scenarios. Led all critical trade-off discussions on HW and SW interactions and identified critical to ship, quality (Dfx) and performance metrics. Fastest consumer launch in history as recognized by Guinness Book of World Records. Owner of the P and L. Managed teams in Redmond, Washington, Haifa, Israel and Shenzhen, China.• Key product innovation driver. Hit HW cost targets, product introduction timeline and drove the Product Development Process (PDLP). Introduced new checkpoints (HW/SW performance, user living room scenarios that impacted product design) to ensure that the PDP process was improved.• Led engineering team consisting of EE, ME, FW, Optical, Audio, Test and Program Management to deliver all projects on time and budget. Drove teamwork and close working relationship with platform SW, developer community, marketing, manufacturing operations and call center operations to ensure all aspects of the HW product and experience was covered (from pre-sale to out of the box experience to actual usage).• Business lead in acquisition of Canesta including driving the technical and business due diligence, the internal acquisition process and the final acquisition and integration of the company. Key member during the acquisition of 3DV. Both Canesta and 3DV were startup companies focused on 3D vision.• Three system level HW patents granted.

Owner of the P and L. Led the engineering team and business execution team driving a portfolio of accessory products. Rationalized the product portfolio strategy and drove new product introductions resulting in over $500M of revenue and a 40% increase in profitability within one year. Refined the ecosystem engagement (HW Partners, Game Developer Partners) strategy that drove the most successful licensing program for Xbox and has proven to be an industry leader in ecosystem engagement. Built the engineering team to be one of the most successful HW teams in Microsoft. Managed teams in Redmond, Washington, and Shenzhen, China. • Managed a portfolio of products with regular product refreshes requiring product rationalization based on strategic, financial, competitive and geographic market requirements.• Drove the strongest business execution team at Xbox 360 with full ownership of marketing, finance, sales, manufacturing and ecosystem management.• Delivered on target on aggressive revenue and margin goals even during the down turn. Drove innovate sales programs within all regions (working closely on ROI with each region). Presented at key international and regional sales conferences on the accessory business. Drove direct relationship with key retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Game (UK), Gamestop etc.

Grew the revenue 75% in the first year with a plan to double the revenue the second year. Drove a business model change to move the Telco business relationship from a subscription to a scalable revenue share model with a co-branded, Telco domain driven product line covering Search, Mail, Messenger, Spaces, Toolbar, and Portal. My team also innovated on the Windows Live@edu program that drives Mail, Messenger, Spaces and Search to University students with a University Domain. This program has been one of the most successful programs for Windows Live with an enrollment of over two million students by the end of calendar 2006 (within a year of launch).• Built a scalable business model on Mobile services resulting in a mix of services and subscription revenue. Drove MSN services to over 20 markets worldwide covering 80% of the smart phones in the market. Business model innovation on changing from subscription to a revenue share model based on subscriber acquisition and advertising (display and search).• Product & Business Innovation on live@edu program resulting in delivering a new customer base to Windows live.• Invested in .Mobi and board member guiding the startup on strategy. Drove acquisition of Gteko.

Joined Intel Capital to drive the consumer investment strategy and led a team that focused on investment for the sector. Developed the Digital Home Investment Strategy focusing on how to build the ecosystem for Intel.This led to the formation of the Digital Home Fund. Completed investments in external companies that helped build the ecosystem for Digital Home. Strategically involved with investment companies by being on the board and worked board and management at CEO/COO level to drive growth, product plans and managing the exit strategies. Managed team in Dupont, Washington, Santa Clara, California and Hillsboro, Oregon.• Instituted a $200M investment fund with a strategic plan on investment. Presented to CEO and Intel Capital president to get approval.• Led the team to invest in over 25 companies worldwide. Personally led investment in 5 companies. Four out of the five companies have had a successful exit with at least 5x returns to Intel.• Board member on multiple companies simultaneously driving strategy and advising senior management on execution and operations.

Built and led the combined server and workstation enterprise marketing organization. Rebuilt a high-performance organization with results such as: successful introduction of a new family of enterprise processors – the Itanium processor family. Drove strategic decisions at the CEO staff level on Itanium processor family, product family branding Strategies, and Product Decisions. I was responsible for $5B business. Never lost a deal to a competitor. Managed teams in Hillsboro Oregon, Dupont Washington, Santa Clara, California, Folsom, California.• Built two new businesses for Intel. Drove strategic plan and successfully presented to senior management. Grew both businesses into multi-billion dollar profitable businesses for Intel.• Developed competitive product plans competing against RISC and Big Iron in both the segments. Innovated on products at system level like rack servers (1U and above), storage architectures and individual products like Xeon and system management chipsets.• Built ecosystem of chipset, board and OEM/ODM to drive product scale and worked with key SW vendors like Novell, Microsoft, HP, Unisys, Fujitsu to drive OS strategy resulting in leadership market segment share by revenue, units and profit.• Two silicon level patents granted.

I was asked to drive a new market segment, Workstations. Started the new business unit with the GM, recruited internally and from outside to form the new unit. Developed the strategic plan, product roadmap, negotiated internally on specific products for the workstation market segment. Defined and drove introduction of processor and chipsets products that enabled the fastest growth in revenue for Intel in a new market segment.

Led Intel into the Server market segment in 1992. Started with a small organization (Server Business Unit) and led the business unit to a 600% growth in revenue and 800% growth in investment over a three year period. After three years, Intel recognized the effort by forming an organization – Enterprise Server Group. This group drove Intel strategy for servers resulting in a multi-billion dollar revenue stream for Intel. I managed product and technical marketing teams (over 200 people). Led product definitions for all products developed in business unit.

Worked on the first Intel architecture based server in the industry. Presented and championed the core differentiator, System Management Architecture, which drove sales and acceptance in the IT department of fortune 500 companies. Drove the architecture into the full product line enabling a consistent brand presentation. I worked with SW vendors, Microsoft and Novell, driving the feature set of system management into the ecosystem.

Held various responsible positions in sales, management, and manufacturing in India and US. The experiences here covered telecommunications product management to consumer marketing for multinationals such as HP, ITT, Unilever, Beardsell Group.