Sanjai Marimadaiah Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Fremont, California, Us

SupportVectors AI Labs is on a mission to put corporations on a path to technical excellence in AI.Founded by Tech Visionaries Asif Qamar and Chandar Lakshminarayan we’re focused on empowering corporations to succeed in the age of AI. More at: http://www.supportvectors.io Services include:◆ Customized AI Training Courses (in-depth, hands-on mastery of all things AI and Gen-AI)◆ Virtual AI Center of ExcellenceCompleted 2 rigorous Gen-AI Courses to experience the quality and rigor of the courses.◆ Foundational Neural Networks Architecture course covered foundational concepts like back-propagation, gradient descent, and optimization techniques, as well as advanced topics including CNNs, AutoEncoders, GANs, and Transformer architectures. Gained hands-on experience in Python and PyTorch and cutting-edge AI methodologies for vision and generative modeling.◆ LLM Projects Bootcamp provided a hands-on experience with semantic search, vector databases, hybrid search, advanced prompting frameworks, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine-tuning, and multimodal learning models (CLIP, BLIP-2, LLaVA). Explored cutting-edge applications in document AI, SQL code generation, and Transformer-based architectures.

Advisor and Coach to Business Owners to grow revenues and profitability to take their business to the next level.◆ Target audience - businesses with over $3m in revenue; Visit http://www.RASAGrowth.comAdvisor & Mentor:◆ Sr. Startup Advisor at SynerLeap (ABB’s Growth Hub) https://synerleap.com/◆ Mentor at Founders' Institute. http://www.fi.co Expertise: Business Growth Expert, Executive Coach, Leadership Advisor, Go-To-Market Strategist, Revenue Growth Specialist, Business Development Leader, Strategic Growth Advisor, CEO Mentor, Performance Optimization Coach, Organizational Development Expert, Market Expansion Consultant, Business Transformation Coach, Profitability Improvement Specialist, Corporate Strategy Advisor, Entrepreneurship Mentor, Operational Efficiency Expert, Customer Acquisition Strategist, Sales Growth Consultant, Leadership Development Coach, Business Strategy Advisor, Big Data, Gen AI, RAG, Prompt Engineering, LLM, AI Agents, BERT, PyThon, PyTorch

Houston, Texas, Us

As the Chief Business Officer for Lancium Compute, led the validation of the business model for HPC+AI PaaS to successful pivot to AI data-center construction to align with Lancium’s vision to drive adoption of renewable energy.Key Accomplishments:◆ GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY: Developed and executed a comprehensive GTM strategy for HPC+AI PaaS. Identified three key industry verticals for immediate focus - Public Sector, Pharma & Image Rendering - based on product readiness and market attractiveness.◆ MESSAGING and BRANDING: Established Lancium Compute's mission as "Carbon-FREE Computing for HPC & AI," fostering team alignment and brand commitment.◆ PRODUCT PORTFOLIO EXPANSION: Expanded offerings with data center colocation and construction capabilities with a specific focus on expertise with popular HPC & AI applications such as Amber, Growmacs, NAMD, TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.◆ PRICING STRATEGY: Designed a detailed pricing strategy prioritizing differentiating features and introduced the innovative "PaaS Unit per hour" concept.◆ MARKET LAUNCH: Successfully managed Lancium Compute's public launch at the Supercomputing Conference 2022, including messaging, media engagements, and partnership discussions.◆ STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: Managed a large scale multi-party strategic initiatives.Keywords: Executive Leadership | Product Management Executive | Business Unit Leadership | General Manager | Chief Operating Officer (COO) | CPO | CBO | Product Strategy | Solutions Consulting | Market Expansion | Revenue Growth | P&L Management | Organizational Development | Cross-functional Leadership | Innovation Management | Sales Operations | Corporate Strategy | Strategic Planning | Business Transformation | Product Lifecycle Management | Strategic Partnerships | Alliances | Go-To-Market GTM Strategist | Cloud Native Hybrid SaaS PaaS | Event Broker Pub-Sub | Data Streaming | IoT | Analytics | Big Data | Gen AI | RAG | Prompt Engineering | LLM | AI Agents | BERT | PyThon | PyTorch

Reading, Gb

As a Chief Product Officer I led the strategic transformation of Diffusion Data, a 10 year-old data-streaming software vendor (similar to Apache Kafka), growing revenues by 2X and MQLs by over 500%.Key Accomplishments:◆ PRODUCT POSITIONING: as "Event-Data Platform for Real-Time Applications", restructed the product into 3 components.◆ PRODUCT ROADMAP: Developed a long-term roadmap that included change-data-capture (CDC) using Apache Debezium; connectors for Apache Kafka, Redis, MySQL, open protocols such as MQTT, AMQP & RestAPI.◆ PaaS CLOUD INCUBATION: with emphasis on intuitive user on-boarding journey.◆ PRICING: Transitioned on-premise pricing to subscription model, structured pricing for PaaS Cloud to maximize adoption and revenues◆ DEVELOPER MARKETING: Launched several initiatives to educate the use of SDK and APIs 1) bi-weekly webinars 2) sample code for features 3) tutorials for use cases and 5) open sourced a highly popular live flight-tracker app.◆ DIGITAL MARKETING: Established a digital marketing engine to grow MQLs by 500+% 1) Website Redesign 2) Organic Social Media on LinkedIn & Twitter 3) Content syndication on D-Zone, Stack Overflow and Dev.To 4) Sponsored contents on LinkedIn with eBooks, and Display Ads and YouTube Ads 5) Email marketing to nurture Leads.Keywords: Executive Leadership | Product Management Executive | Business Unit Leadership | General Manager | Chief Operating Officer (COO) | CPO | CBO | Product Strategy | Solutions Consulting | Market Expansion | Revenue Growth | P&L Management | Organizational Development | Cross-functional Leadership | Innovation Management | Sales Operations | Corporate Strategy | Strategic Planning | Business Transformation | Product Lifecycle Management | Strategic Partnerships | Alliances | Go-To-Market GTM Strategist | Cloud Native Hybrid SaaS PaaS | Event Broker Pub-Sub | Data Streaming | IoT | Analytics | Big Data | Gen AI | RAG | Prompt Engineering | LLM | AI Agents | BERT | PyThon | PyTorch

Ramat Gan, Israel, Il

Led the outbound product management activities for Pliops, with operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, & San Jose, CA. Pliops specializes in FPGA-based DPU accelerators for SSDs designed to significantly enhance the performance of SQL and KV databases. The technology operates at the storage engine level, akin to RocksDB.◆ Established a comprehensive framework for performance evaluation and benchmarking activities,ensuring alignment with the company's value proposition of delivering near-DRAM levels of IOPSand latency using the PLIOPS DPU in conjunction with SSDs.◆ Successfully launched the Pliops solution for Redis and MySQL, backed by detailed benchmarkingresults and comprehensive solution briefs to showcase the product's capabilities and advantages.Keywords: Executive Leadership | Product Management Executive | Business Unit Leadership | General Manager | Chief Operating Officer (COO) | CPO | CBO | Product Strategy | Solutions Consulting | Market Expansion | Revenue Growth | P&L Management | Organizational Development | Cross-functional Leadership | Innovation Management | Sales Operations | Corporate Strategy | Strategic Planning | Business Transformation | Product Lifecycle Management | Strategic Partnerships | Alliances | Go-To-Market GTM Strategist | Cloud Native Hybrid SaaS PaaS | Event Broker Pub-Sub | Data Streaming | IoT | Analytics | Big Data | Gen AI | RAG | Prompt Engineering | LLM | AI Agents | BERT | PyThon | PyTorch

Cupertino, California, Us

Taught the elective course on "Intrapreneurship" and "Strategic Product Management" at the Executive MBA program in Product Management managed by Institute of Product Leadership

During my job transition phases, I offer my expertise in Product & GTM activities as a consultant/advisor◆ Served as strategic advisor to CEO of EdCast (acquired by Cornerstone Inc.): Helped EdCast’s myGuide product reach $1m in ARR in six months helping EdCast raise $34m in Series C◆ Clients: Talio (cloud on-boarding) , Nimeyo (NLP Startup), PayBee (non-profit management SaaS)◆ Startup Advisor at Singularity University, TechCODE AI+ Accelerator and Founders’ Institute.

San Jose, California, Us

As the VP of Business Incubation orchestrated two strategic pivots, evolving a skunk-works big data initiative into an Application Performance Management (APM) product for Hadoop. This product featured predictive analytics, early warning alerts, and root cause analysis. Led a 20+ member internal startup team.STRATEGY:◆ Rebranded infrastructure management product as the Big Data Control Center within the first 90 days, securing validation from over 40 customers and securing PoC with three enterprise clients (1st Pivot).◆ After 8 months, strategically refocused efforts on Application Performance Management for Hadoop following discussions with 60+ customers and extensive competitive analysis (2nd Pivot).◆ Advocated the recruitment of key product management talent and allocation of entrepreneurial- minded resources from pre-sales, support, and marketing teams to the virtual team.PRODUCT:◆ Implemented lean-startup and design thinking methodologies to foster rapid product iterations and customer-centric product development.◆ Introduced design sprints and revitalized Agile/Scrum processes, resulting in a 3X increase in product backlog.◆ Collaborated with CA Labs researchers to develop a prototype for predicting Big Data application performance, resulting in a patent filed in November 2015 (co-patent owner).GO-TO-MARKET:◆ Instituted customer selection criteria based on big data maturity levels and established a streamlined customer engagement process securing 60+ qualified customers for sales pursuit.◆ Implemented a cloud-based demo environment and sandbox for customer trials, enhancing satisfaction and accelerating sales.

Austin, Texas, Us

Recruited into Oracle Consulting by a former HP executive for a key strategic growth initiative.• Managed the PaaS Cloud Solutions portfolio for Oracle database and middleware offerings• Led a team of six to develop the solution portfolios and business case• Oracle discontinued the strategic initiative and overhauled the Oracle Consulting organization.

Houston, Texas, Us

Head of Product Management - Big Data Solutions (2012-14)Led the HP Converged Systems portfolio for Big Data - established a robust global commercial infrastructure. Scaled revenues from <$2m to over $80m and acquiring 60+ customers within two yearsSTRATEGY & EXECUTION:◆ Generated $19.2m in sales within the first 4 months by diversifying the solutions portfolio and streamlining pre-sales processes◆ Positioned as an industry thought leader, regularly presenting at HP Executive Briefing Center and industry conferences◆ Aligned various business units to establish a unified HP Big Data strategy, recognized as “HP HAVen”PRODUCT MANAGEMENT:◆ Expanded the HP Big Data portfolio, encompassing Hadoop and Vertica Appliances & reference architectures, tailored to customer segments based on Big Data maturity levels◆ Established HP Big Data Centers of Excellence (CoE) in Atlanta (Americas), Grenoble (Europe), and Singapore (Asia), fostering customer collaboration and thought leadershipSTRATEGIC ALLIANCES:◆ Negotiated contracts and managed partnerships with industry leaders Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR to develop Hadoop solutions, driving revenue growth and market presence◆ Orchestrated joint engineering and go-to-market activities to strengthen partner relationships and enhance market positioning_____Head of Business Incubation, HP Energy Analytics Solutions (2010-12)Recruited by former management consultants from McKinsey, Bain, etc., into HP Enterprise Server division's strategy team to incubate HP energy efficiency solutions◆ PHASE 1: Successfully launched HP Energy Solutions from concept to market within the first year.Leveraged the datacenter energy efficiency expertise of HP CFS division with SaaS offerings frompartners such as Hara Software and C3 AI◆ PHASE 2: Expanded the capabilities of the solution with real-time energy analytics using IoT data byleveraging assets and capabilities of HP Labs and smart-meter partners such as OSISoft & Trilliant.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

◆ Led Product Marketing for IBM Smart Business to address the SMB marketServed as the Global Product Marketing Leader for IBM Smart Business, spearheaded an SMB initiative focused on streamlining IT solutions procurement, deployment, and management through an innovative Appliance & App Store model.Key contributions include:• Co-led the strategy and execution of IBM Smart Business in India, marketing the first market entry. • Defined product requirements, pricing strategies, messaging frameworks, and developed collaterals. • Created ROI/TCO tools and channel programs to support sales efforts.• Executed demand generation activities - inside sales training, content marketing, and social media• Successfully recruited regional ISVs and channel partners while managing sales enablement events.◆ Managed Corporate Development activities for a new business unit - IBM GESServed as Corporate Development Leader at IBM Global Engineering Services, where I developedbusiness cases for M&A and Equity Investments for the newly established Global Engineering Services unit, specializing in ASIC & systems design.• Spearheaded business case development for two significant acquisitions totaling over $2 billion inthe embedded software space to support ASIC and System design services◆ Led Product Management of IBM MetaCluster offerings (assets from Meiosys acquisition)• Successfully launched IBM MetaCluster HPC for Linux, securing five reference customers within thefirst six months of its introduction.

(Meiosys was acquired by IBM in 2005)Head of solutions engineering and technical marketing activities. Meiosys, Inc. developed application virtualization solutions, based on containers & check-point/restart technology, for distributed applications over an HPC cluster.◆ Developed reference solutions in collaboration with leading Job Scheduling Vendors such as PlatformComputing, Altair Engineering, IBM, and others, as well as MPI Solutions providers including Scali, IBM, and Intel MPI, alongside high-speed network vendors.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

◆ Technical lead responsible for software enhancements to Solaris kernel, STREAMS framework and TCP/IP stack. Managed team of 20+ system software engineers in US, UK and India ◆ Part of tiger team that established the India Engineering Center in 2001◆ Won the Leadership award (2004) for exceeding Knowledge Management program goal by 30%◆ Taught a popular class on Solaris TCP/IP Stack architecture to internal employees.

Hemel Hempstead, England, Gb

System Software Engineer working on Unix SVR4 Operating System at Sequent Computers (Beaverton, OR), Tata (Bangalore/India & San Jose /CA) and Wipro (Bangalore)

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship, International Business

B.E, Computer Science & Engineering

Graduate Work (Sitn Program), Computer Science