Nov 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• ◉ Gartner has recognized Altizon as one of the ten best Industrial IoT platforms in the world
• ◉ Led Infuse Ventures' investment in Altizon
• ◉ Guided the company thru two further rounds of investments and business scalings

May 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• ◉ Infuse is India's pioneering VC fund, focused on Clean-tech, with Government, industry, and World Bank (thru IFC) as investors
• ◉ As part of the founding team, helped solidify and sharpen initial fund prospectus and documentation
• ◉ Helped design and set-up investment theses and operating processes
• ◉ Held multiple mentoring sessions for cleantech entrepreneurs on Sustainability and Business Building
• ◉ Led the investment in Altizon Inc, one of the world's best IoT platforms (as recognized by Gartner)
• ◉ Assisted with other deals in due-diligence and post-investment hand-holding

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• ◉ Aagami manufactures world-class, application-specific LED lighting fixtures with patented technology
• ◉ As a founding team member, provided the thought leadership to develop the strategic vision for the company by analyzing semiconductor trends, lighting market, ecosystem, and competition
• ◉ Developed the solid technical underpinnings of the company's world-patented technology
• ◉ Developed the marketing collateral to articulate the vision and technological advantages
• ◉ Led technical marketing to marquee Industrial and government customers
• ◉ Negotiated and managed partner relationships

Sep 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 6 mos · Pune, India

• ◉ Business Develoment: accelerating System Integrator partnerships internationally
• ◉ Governance: Represent Avalara Inc (NYSE:AVLR) on the board of their Indian subsidiary
• ◉ Strategic: ensure governance to US and local standard, source and mentor leadership, guide site policies and processes, facilitate business development, oversee CSR strategy/operations
• ◉ Instrumental in growing the India site from 20 employees to about 1200+ in 10 years.

Nov 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• ◉ Sofomo was one of the early pioneers of Telemedicine using its own diagnostic quality mobile EKGs in India
• ◉ Led first VC investment in Sofomo and took a board position
• ◉ Helped develop overall business strategy and technology roadmap
• ◉ Moved the company strategy from device-centric to device-agnostic telemedicine network business
• ◉ Mentored the MD in all of this.

Aug 2009 – Mar 2015 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• In the intensely competitive but facelessly traditional world of restaurants, Grubshup was the first Pune experiment to build a sustainable restaurant. (a lot of our programming collateral is available on LinkedIn Grubshup Page)
• As an environmentally and socially responsible organization, we brought a lot of industry-first approaches to our business, including the best wages, benefits and profit-sharing to our employee-owners. Needless to say, we only used the freshest ingredients without any preservatives, additives and artificial colors to promote a healthy and hygienic lifestyle.
• Within our first year, we developed a very loyal following and won numerous accolades from our fans and the media, including winning Zomato's 'Hangout of the Year' award. The social calendar at Grubshup was filled with entrepreneurial meetups, documentary screenings, art shows, and many other narratives.
• Grubshup was designed to be a category-creating chain of Sustainable Hangout Places and was emulated by many other successful followers in the Pune restaurant circuit. After 5 years and 3 outlets, I decided to exit because of the competing demands on my time with the business and the family.

Apr 2009 – Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• ◉ Fusiontech was a pioneering, small, super-angel fund and center for impact and sustainability investing, from some of India's most successful cleantech entrepreneurs building world-class companies
• ◉ The fund also had a twin mission of training SMEs on sustainability principles of running business
• ◉ Developed the early sustainability programming (aimed at SMEs) and investment theses
• ◉ Developed and delivered a 'Sustainability in Business' 3-day workshop for manufacturing SMEs
• ◉ Identified, ran due-diligence on, negotiated deal terms for investments in clean-tech, education, and healthcare (angel and pre-series-A)
• ◉ Rolled-up the sleeves (the fund was designed that way) and took substantial execution responsibilities in business strategy and development
• ◉ Managed a successful clean-tech exit within two years with excellent IRR.

Jan 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States

• ◉ High Frequency Retail (HFR) was an intra-preneurial venture within Intel Capital
• ◉ Worked with retail and design domain experts to understand retail landscape and develop a clear business idea focusing on a technology platform for mom-pop retailers in emerging markets
• ◉ Successfully won two rounds of funding by clearly developing and articulating the overall strategy with supporting evidence
• ◉ Moved to India, conducted market research, substantially pivoted the original value proposition from product platform to product+service platform. This was the most broad and comprehensive pioneering platform of its kind enabling e-services with cash payments at mom-pop stores.
• ◉ Built an entire ecosystem from scratch, cobbling together 17 partnerships spanning giant FMCG companies such as P&G and Colgate to service providers such as DTDC, Cleartrip, RedBus etc.
• ◉ Successfully built partnerships to bring the platform to a pilot stage
• ◉ The venture was eventually spun out into a platform partner company

Jul 2005 – Apr 2006 · 9 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States

• ◉ Scanned various ecosystems of consumer electronics, retail, healthcare, social media, and clean-tech (solar) with a view to create intra-preneurial ventures
• ◉ Developed a few value propositions: grab-n-go storage device for your digital life, smart mirrors for apparel retail etc.
• ◉ Zeroed in on mom-pop retail platform, developed the idea, won funding, and launched that venture

Jul 2000 – Jul 2005 · 5 yrs · Portland, Oregon, United States

• ◉ Managed design technology and methodology development for Intel's flagship microprocessors from Pentium-IV variants thru Core i7.
• ◉ Team managed the transition of EDA methodologies and tool-suites from legacy custom designs to more efficient design methodologies and flows using more industry-standard tools and substantial use of design abstraction.

Sep 1996 – Jun 2000 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States

• ◉ Led the path-breaking full-chip static timing analysis tools and methodologies for Intel's flagship microprocessor of the era: Pentium-IV line and many of its future versions.
• ◉ Many tools and methodologies developed during this time proved grounds-breaking and won Intel Achievement Award, Intel's rare and highest award for technical excellence.

Jan 1992 – Aug 1996 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States

• ◉ Started as Component Design Engineer helping design the Branch Target Buffer circuitry for Intel's flagship Pentium-Pro processor, the seminal microprocessor that forever changed the processor industry and cemented Intel's leadership in this domain.
• ◉ Later moved to EDA (Electronic Design Automation) helping develop tools and methodologies for chip-level static timing analysis of Pentium-Pro, Pentium-II, and Pentium-III processors.