Sanjay Shah, as COO of the Wadhwani Foundation, is responsible for all operations related to India and SE Asia. He provides leadership and oversight to all the key Initiatives, including product development for the global market. In addition, he will play a significant role in building and executing global scale plans, partnerships and operations to take Wadhwani Foundation to the next level.Prior to his role at Wadhwani Foundation, he worked at iManage as its Managing Director for Asia. He was responsible for business development of all iManage solutions throughout Asia. In addition to managing customer relationships, he focused on expanding the iManage Partner ecosystem while working closely with the existing iManage Partner community that today supports a well-established and rapidly growing regional customer base. Prior to iManage, he provided the vision & strategic direction for all technology/products at Instavans (www.instavans.com). Before that, he was the CEO of Zapty, Inc. driving its vision and strategy. Prior to that, he was the MD and Head of Software Delivery Centers for Schneider Electric/Invensys. Skelta (www.skelta.com), which he co-founded and was its CEO from 2004-2010, was acquired by Invensys PLC, listed on the LSE in April, 2010. Sanjay brings over 30 years of management and software product experience under multiple platforms and computing environments. Sanjay has played pivotal roles in steering startups from early growth to expansion. Prior to Skelta, Sanjay served as Managing Director of Everest Software. He co-founded Everest in 1994 with a vision of developing an integrated ERP software solution for small businesses and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the global market. He helped raise multiple rounds of venture financing to help fund strategic initiatives and fuel the company's growth between 1999 and 2004. Before Everest, Sanjay was a founding partner of Accel, Inc., a $35 million "white box" PC retailer in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Sanjay sits on the Board of Directors of Sasken Technologies (www.sasken.com) and Instavans Logistics (www.instavans.com), is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO) as part of the Bangalore chapter's executive committee and the Deal Network Chair at YPO for South Asia.Specialties: Steering software product companies from early growth to expansion, selling and marketing packaged off-the-shelf products to the global market and angel investing.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Product Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and 25 others.
