Jun 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 9 mos

• Managing Director at Aeron Systems Pvt. Ltd. Prime responsibilities are administration, financing and leading product design.
• Successfully managing profitable, rapidly growing start-up for past 17 years
• Leading global expansion through strategic partnerships for Aeron's aerospace and defence business
• Expanding Aeron's EU and US footprints, looking for distribution and SI partners
• Coaching core members of the departments, instilling leadership in team members and training them for taking up key responsibilities
• Leading execution of business plans and goal to create a global leader in Resilient PNT
• Played key role in raising Pre-Series A and Growth investments

Jun 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 9 mos

• Led development & commercialization of India’s first indigenously developed tactical Inertial Navigation System (INS) for Land & Airborne applications
• Played key role in qualifying the INS products as per CEMILAC Airworthiness and MIL-461E & 810F (Military) standards
• Played key role in getting product evaluated and certified by users
• Developed state space model of the NAV system, designed the sensor fusion model & did major work in software implementation of the navigation equations
• Key enabler in Aeron's growth helping Aeron become gross break-even from first whole year of operation through fast product roll-outs contributing to year-of-year growth of over 50% in past 3 years
• Led design and development of weather station and weather datalogger installed over 1100 remote locations