May 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Did whatever was needed to get the venture off the ground and take off.
• Specifically
• ❖ The platform went from ideation to a beta launch in a short span of 4 months
• ❖ Grew the investor base to ~700 investors from ~20 countries and 1800+ startups in 12 months
• ❖ Successfully completed the fund raise for LetsVenture from the leading VC in India and top angels.
• ❖ Helped close funding for 15 startups in ~10 months ranging from 50L to 5CR. This required closely working with startups & investors to shape business plans including valuations etc
• ❖ Set up fast track processes and partnerships to close the due diligence, term sheets and execution documents spread over three countries - Singapore, USA and India.
• ❖ Built the team across different competencies
• ❖ Conducted multiple workshops across the country for startups (on how to raise funds) as well as angel investors (on how to invest in startups)

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 2 mos

• Investor / Board Member with several startups like Agnikul, Pyxis, SigTuple, Niramai, Ten3T, Locus, Wysa, SwitchON, AdPushUp, GoCoop etc.

Jun 2005 – Apr 2010 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• ❖ Led 7x growth of the center organically with some of the best talent from the industry in multiple engineering domains (Hardware Design, Embedded Systems, DSP Codecs Software, Quality Assurance and Mobile, Windows & Macintosh Applications) across all experience levels establishing multiple levels of leadership for each domain.
• ❖ Member of the Sling Media Executive Staff, comprising of top management leaders responsible for steering the organization strategically.
• ❖ Responsible for PR within the country. Several interviews with leading newspapers / magazines have been published.

Feb 2001 – May 2005 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Head [Senior Manager & Member Technical Staff] Audio-Video Systems & Multimedia Systems Group
• ❖ The group was responsible for all audio-video system level solutions including state of the art video compression IP blocks on several platforms for a large customer base (30+) spread over various parts of Asia, Europe and US.
• ❖ As head of the group (from its inception), worked at conceiving, defining and deploying of multiple products. Also established a technology incubation team to work on next generation products to sustain leadership and growth rate of the group.
• ❖ Created reference product designs including hardware, boards and boxes.Led the design and development of Portable Media Player, a complete multimedia jukebox capable of playback of all internet / stored audio video content. This product was demonstrated in CES, January 2004.

Jul 1994 – Feb 2001 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Motorola Labs @ Schaumburg

• Motorola Labs, Chicago, USA [Head @ Algorithms, Video Research]
• Motorola India Electronics Ltd, Bangalore, India [Senior Software Engineer]
• ❖ Contributed to the MPEG-4 standard. Co-Authored the profiles and levels table.
• ❖ Technical Lead of the team which developed the multistandard (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 Main Profile) Video Decoder in C++.
• ❖ Awarded a certificate of appreciation for presenting a tutorial on “Standards based Video Compression Techniques” at the International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) held at Los Angeles in June 1999.
• ❖ Led and worked on various teams for optimizing and delivering high performance audio - video compression blocks on multiple platforms.

May 1992 – Jul 1994 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• First job out of college :)
• ❖ Designed hardware for India’s first Global Positioning Systems Receiver for the Indian Army