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-Led Gupshup's explosive growth, by founding its Cloud Communications Business in 2011 and driving its profitable growth from incubation to ~$250M (54% CAGR from Dec'2011 -Dec'2022; 153% NRR and ~$250M Revenue in CY22), to help Gupshup become a leader in Conversational AI and a Unicorn-Responsibilities at Gupshup included managing Product, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Customer Success, Solutions Development, Operations and Support functionsHeadquartered in Silicon Valley, Gupshup is a leader in conversational AI, enabling businesses to build engaging 1:1 conversational experiences with all their customers, seamlessly across 30+ messaging channels, using a globally available cloud API. Gupshup's cloud messaging platform handles over 9 billion messages per month, enabling thousands of businesses to engage their customers across popular messaging channels such as SMS, WhatsApp, Android RCS, Instagram, FB Messenger, Twitter, Google Business Messages, WeChat, Line, Viber, Slack and Mobile Web

Incubated Web Analytics SaaS startup focused on eCommerce and media analytics for Online Retail, Social Media and Entertainment properties. Completed strategic sale of IP & development team

-Joined Veritas to jumpstart its Cloud Storage Service and Cloud Data Management business incubated at Akamai and led its growth to $225 Million in Revenue. Awarded US patent for innovative cloud data management methodology invented in 2003-After Veritas was acquired by Symantec in 2005, led product management, marketing and solutions development for Symantec's industry leading $1.8 Billion Information Security, Cloud Storage and Data Management Solutions to enable global deployment of large scale Consumer Mobile Security and Cloud Data management services. Authored three Symantec YellowBooks on Cyber Security and Enterprise Data Management Service deployment best practices

Reported to President and COO as an early member of the pre-IPO business team-Led new service definition, product positioning and partner ecosystem development to help scale core Internet Content Delivery and Security Service business to $90M in revenue within first 12 months-Incubated and led Akamai's Enterprise Content Delivery, Cloud Compute, Storage and Security service businessAkamai was one the pioneers (1999) of globally-scaled, on-demand and metered cloud based internet content, cyber security and application delivery services. With over 90,000 servers in more than 90 countries and over 1200 networks, Akamai efficiently delivered web content and applications to consumers for marquee online Search, eCommerce and Media brands powering over 27% of all web traffic

Reported to CEO as member of the Executive Management team -Led business development, telecom partnerships, consumer channel alliances, partner marketing and developer relations to help build ecosystem for one of the first Palm based mobile smart-phones (Treo)-Before Handspring's acquisition by Palm, left Handspring to rejoin Akamai to incubate its JV with Veritas

Served as Engagement Manager advising senior management of leading internet infrastructure, software, mobile and eCommerce companies on new business incubation and growth strategies. Promoted from Associate to Engagement Manager in 18 months. Joined as a Summer Associate, in 1996, while doing MBA at Harvard Business School

-Hired as the first product manager for Quickturn's flagship product line serving Compute, Graphics and Telecom System design markets-Grew team and product line from $1M to $54M in revenue in 18 months, overseeing product management, product marketing, partner ecosystem development and integrations. Wrote product section of prospectus for Quickturn's 1994 IPOQuickturn was a leader in reprogrammable computing technologies, with initial focus on electronic design validation and automation. Quickturn (QKTN) was later acquired by Cadence

-Led an engineering team and significantly contributed to the design and development of Sun's first 64-Bit Computing System and Chipset (Ultra-1)-This product served as the foundation for Sun's Ultra series that became the biggest selling series of computers ever developed by Sun Microsystems, powering the dot com boom, with many companies and organisations—including Sun itself—relying on Sun Ultra products, for years after their successor products were released