Advising startups, VCs and corporates on organic and inorganic growth strategies across M&A, business development and capital raising. Thought leadership and speaking roles across various M&A, Partnership and Professional Tech Organizations: State of Cyber Summits, Sidebar M&A and IPO Summit, Sidebar Corporate Venture Capital Summit, Redwood Collective Venture Fund of Funds.

Sidebar Summit is a leading tech-centered relationship building organization focused on Top-tier events to expand networks, cultivate relationships, and increase visibility with the brightest minds in technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital, academia, and government. www.sidebarsummit.com

Redwood Collective is a VC Fund of Funds investing in top tier Silicon Valley based VCs. Investments include Lightspeed, 8VC, Darwin, SNR and more. RWC also makes selective co-investments in later stage companies. www.redwoodcollective.net

Leadership role focused on strategy, M&A, investments, strategic partnerships & OEMs for $25B+ market leading cloud security company. Drive build, buy and/or partner strategy and execution. www.zscaler.com. Emphasis on AI and large data models in Cybersecurity.- Launched Zenith Ventures, VC fund: www.zscaler.com/zenithventures (Traceable.ai)- Cyber/AI Acquisitions: Avalor, Canonic, SecurelyShare, Airgap- Zscaler AI Summit: Co-founder of internal conference with over 1000 attendees to learn more about AI and its applications for enhanced productivity

Led build, buy, partner growth strategy from planning, internal senior stakeholder alignment, deal diligence and execution to integration planning across focus sectors including Cloud, SaaS, application security and edge computing. Acquisitions: Volterra.io ($500M) & Threat Stack ($68M)

After the successful acquisition of my former company Ruckus, I advised several startups and corporates on growth strategies across sales, marketing, business development, capital raising and product. (SaaS, AI, Cloud) Led a small business panel planning collaborating with Governor's entrepreneurial task force.

Ruckus is a leading provider ($800M+) of software and hardware solutions in wired/wireless sector for the Global 2000 enterprise segment. Championed build, buy, partner growth initiatives across sales/business development, investments and M&A in SaaS, Wireless, IOT, Cloud & AI across several verticals including healthcare, hospitality, education, retail and several others. Earned “Honorary Sales Account Rep” distinction having individually built ~$8M sales/BD pipeline of opportunities and led integration efforts post acquisition for 1 year before leaving Ruckus. Evaluated and negotiated several acquisition opportunities and also led $800M sale process to private equity/corporate buyers.

MapR (acquired by HPE) was a leading provider of big data software solutions and services. (backed by Google Capital, NEA, LightSpeed, Mayfield and other top investors) Reporting to SVP of Sales and frequent interaction with CEO, led OEM sales/business development, a critical growth area, and evaluated M&A opportunities for company. Sourced pipeline of over 50 new OEM opportunities across several sectors with accompanying potential "design wins" and joint business plans/profitability and lead EMC/MapR relationship. Carried and achieved sales quotas.

Corporate Development/Investments: Led build/buy/partner growth from strategy planning to deal execution/integration for $4B Software Group - SaaS (WebEx), Big Data, Mobile & Cloud. Executed over $3.0B in transactions in seven deals including acquisitions, investments and divestitures. Measurable success in delivering on milestones and acquisition rationale.Product, Business Development, Sales: Achieved +20% growth in several markets for $950M business while maintaining gross margin thresholds. Drove product line strategy including pricing, roadmap, positioning and ISV partnerships. Developed and executed GTM plan across geographies including collateral development, partner/sales enablement. Launched Cisco Edge new product line focused on edge computing and reached $20M in revenue - product recognized by CEO John Chambers at Global Sales Leadership Event.

Invested from Goldman Sach's Credit Line of $250 million (seed funding). Evaluated investments across private equity, venture and direct lending in Australia, China and SE Asia. Regularly presented and defended investment thesis to Goldman Sachs Investment Committee.

Launched fund targeting $250M raise and assembled local senior team for growth investments in Indian market. Pitched over 80 investors, secured 3 term sheets from institutional investors, including JP Morgan, to IPO fund on London Stock Exchange.

Led international business development for I-Spatial, a first-mover India-based national broadband services company marketed under the BSNL DataOne brand. Negotiated with North American and European content and media producers to gain rights to major motion pictures, TV programming, sports, music, games and educational media for Indian market.

Led sourcing efforts and defended investment cases of prospective investment opportunities across software, consumer internet, services sectors and corporate spin-offs Recognized as top deal originator & promoted to Senior Associate. Investments/portfolio management includes Triversity (acquired by SAP); Integres Global Logistics (United Airlines tech spin-off acquired by Panther Expedited); Structured Global Investment Partnership with Royal Dutch Shell; ZoneTrader (acquired by DoveBid); BenefitMall (acquired by ADP)

Analyst on transactions valued over $2.4B, including M&A, equity & high-yield debt offerings and restructurings in technology, media, automotive and services sectors. Built financial models for equity & debt financing and public & private valuations; drafted offering prospectuses and client/internal presentations and accompanied senior management on road show presentations to investors. At age 20, youngest person in starting analyst class.

Sold over $2 million in benefit value and recognized as top 3 intern in class.