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California, United States

San Mateo, California, Us

- Part of the leadership team that oversaw massive growth (1.5k → 5k employees, $120M → $600M revenue with 110% NRR, 30k → 65k customers, successful IPO in 2021).- Laid out 3-year vision and strategy to evolve from a SaaS portfolio to a composable, AI-powered SaaS Platform.- Pioneered Generative AI and ML based capabilities, such as developer copilot for rapid app development, insights and RCA for better decision making.- Built 35 enterprise-grade platform services to power ITSM, customer support, and CRM workflows.- Led talent expansion (>300 PMs, UX, and engineering) in India and the US.

• Crafted a holistic product strategy and roadmap for TokBox video platform-as-a-service (PaaS) targeted at long-tail self-service signups as well as mid-market / enterprise customerso Focused on live video API features to address requirements for quality, connectivity, security, interoperability, and scalabilityo Launched features like large-scale interactive broadcast (5000 users), programmable composed recording, and SIP interoperabilityo Focused on making developers successful through documentation, sample apps, client frameworks, dashboard, analytics, and diagnostic toolso Established design best practices for real-time video chats for tele-health, education, collaboration, financial services, insurance, and other vertical use cases• (Re)built product & design team - recruited talented and passionate product managers, UX designers, and contractors to execute on the strategy.• Instilled a culture of exploration and experimentation into the product and engineering teams through usage of cognitive services APIs, augmented reality (AR) frameworks, and emerging endpoints (e.g. IoT devices).

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Led the due-diligence, acquisition, and post-acquisition integration for Tropo (www.tropo.com) communications platform-as-a-service (cPaaS) into Cisco collaboration portfolio.• Drove strategic integrations with Cisco product portfolio (collaboration, security, networking) to embed collaboration into business workflows (CRM, ticket management, call center, retail, IoT).

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Launched Cisco’s next-gen cloud collaboration and communications services platform and apps: Cisco Spark, now rebranded Cisco WebEx Teams (https://www.webex.com/products/teams/index.html)- Crafted the vision, strategy, and experience and planned the minimum viable offering- Built and managed the product team that drove requirements for core cloud apps to handle messaging, notifications, media processing and signaling, real-time and non real-time content sharing, security; interop with legacy Cisco solutions• Defined & delivered an end to end customer experience that included the in-app usage as well as critical areas like awareness, signup / onboarding, provisioning, billing, administration, policy management, usage analytics, end-to-end support and communications.

San Jose, California, Us

• Visionary behind award-winning, popular Cisco WebEx mobile apps - Re-imagined and delivered the first real-time collaboration experience on smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android, Windows, and BlackBerry) - Led UX, architecture, feature set, and marketing plans to maximize the scale, reach, and usability of award-winning WebEx mobile apps.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Defined, validated, and launched Nokia Business Center for enterprise (E-series) devices that resulted in market differentiation and cost savings for mobile operators through Nokia’s mobile business solutions

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• Managed Visto’s mobile enterprise solutions for push email and PIM synchronization; led engagement with mobile operators (RFPs, beta testing, pilots, GA).

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Headed the applications product management team to define, prioritize, and release OnMobile’s multi-modal platform and carrier-class applications – using voice (speech recognition), text (SMS, WAP, MMS), and location-intelligence (positioning and geocode data)o Consumer Apps: Interactive sports, Ringtones, Weather, News, Horoscopeo Business Apps: Voice-activated dialing, Email, Calendar

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Led new product launch for $60 million family of wireless telephony semiconductor components.

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

• Planned and implemented a wireless networking project that provided real-time access, portability, and decreased processing costs by 25%.

Meng, Electrical Engineering

Mba, Marketing, Corporate Strategy

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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