Driving the product and technology lead business growth at India's top Hearables and Wearables company. Responsible for product strategy, roadmaps, delivery and innovation.

Heading an advisory firm that helps early-stage and growth-stage future-tech startups and enterprises in their business and technology journey. Nuvos' (http://www.nuvosadvisory.com) comprehensive startup and founder support services help visionary, concept-stage startups with product-market fit, GTM and fund-raising We also help growth-stage startup achieve scale, in India and globally, and build long-term, resilient businesses.

Cerina Labs (http://www.cerina.ai) is a early-stage consumer startup that brings technology innovation to premium lifestyle products. Our range of products include AI and Conversational Intelligence powered Companion Robots and IOT-Ready Air Purifiers. Cerina SDK offers a multitude of technologies covering NLP, Behavioral AI and IOT domains that elevates the consumer experiences.Overall P&L responsibility with ownership of business strategy, product roadmap, sales and marketing for Indian market.

Since Dec 2018, I have been associated with Altiux in the capacity of Company Director.

Altiux Innovations is an IoT startup with an innovative portfolio of products and services that delivers IoT-led transformation for industrial, manufacturing, connected homes, intelligent buildings and smart cities customers.Altiux's product suite consists of an industry-first IoT Toolkit providing Device Middleware, LPWAN & Wireless Connectivity, Device management and Cloud Connectivity and Device Management software packaged with delivering interoperability, industry standards and faster time-to-market for OEM & device manufacturers. Altiux has been recognized by Gartner as ‘one of 10 IoT solution vendors to watch’ and has partners with industry leaders such as Intel, Cisco, Analog Devices, Samsung and others in IoT space.After having successfully raised funding, having built a world-class technology team and led product development at our Bangalore office in the first couple of years of the company's journey, I then moved to Bay Area to drive growth, sales, partnerships and ecosystem for Altiux in US, Korea and Japan markets.

Built ground-up and lead the Telematics Business Unit focussed on providing automotive connectivity, telematics, fleet and intelligent transport solutions for passenger and commercial vehicle sector- Drive strategic direction, growth and profitability for Telematics Business unit- Identified growth opportunities from Automotive Telematics and developed a go-to market strategy. - Spearheaded the successful acquisition of an India-based product company resulting in local customer footprint and engineering capability in Automotive Telematics- Instrumental in securing first wins for telematics products with a large European automotive manufacturer

Provide strategic and operational direction to Harman India Engineering organization to meet key business goals of reverse innovation, talent acquisition, engineering cost optimization and growth in emerging markets.Engineering- Managed a R&D budget of $30M with a global team of 300 people across 3 engineering sites- Successfully managed and carried out large program transitions from US and European engineering centers to Harman India resulting in over 15% reduction in engineering costs- Successfully established global Center of Competencies (CoC) for Systems, Connectivity, HMI, Multimedia and Signal Processing engaged in product development for global markets Product Management- Led large multi-disciplinary software, hardware, design, UX teams towards successful delivery of multiple products including - New In-vehicle Infotainment and Connectivity platform with navigation, audio, smartphone integration for entry and mid-segment passenger car and motorbike market - High-end Connected Car products for premium luxury car makers with advanced driver assistance, telematics, Apps, mobile integration and in-vehicle entertainment - Connected Home Audio/Video systems with state-of-the-art proprietary surround sound algorithms - Audio Architect control and networking software suite for Professional Audio applications- Led technical, commercial proposals for a new infotainment and audio deals with large global OEMs

KeyPoint Technologies is UK-Headquartered company specializing in mobile search & discovery, input technology and other AI & NLP technology products & services for mobile OEMs. Global leader with wide-spread footprint across mobile OEMs, operators in over 130+ languages. - Set-up, shaped & directed India R&D center to successfully productize a next-generation mobile input solution. Achieved key goals of product release within 1 year and aided in revenue generation for the startup. - Built a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team of 55 mobile and NLP engineers in 6 months- Managed product and engineering for Adaptxt(TM), a next generation, multi-modal, input solution with hyper-contextual awareness for mobile devices with achieved an install base of over several million devices.

- Engineering and program management roles with increasing responsibilities across various industrial businesses in GE- Led product development, design and launch for over 10+ NPIs, including early first-gen industrial IoT products, for GE Fanuc, GE Consumer & Industrial and Lighting business units