Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

• Embarking on this angel investing journey, I'm eager to champion new business models, novel ideas, and innovative solutions. My decades of professional experience will serve as a compass, guiding me as I support and nurture the next generation of groundbreaking ventures.

Aug 2011 – Jun 2025 · 13 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Vice President – Technology & Innovation, accountable for building & scaling the next-gen data and analytics platforms across ACA, Medicaid, Medicare LOBs. Enabling business for direct revenue impact & supporting overall RQ business. Yearly achievements of accruals from Cost & Productivity gains plus reduction in infrastructure cost YoY basis.
• Technology Leadership:
• Driving Azure Databricks Lakehouse platform development
• Scaling up Analytics Engine for large scale processing
• Implementing Automation to help reduce data processing cycle time & costs with Cluster & Storage optimization efforts
• Responsibilities include Technology strategy, Product Management, Product Engineering, Technology Operations & Maintenance, Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, Digital Experience, CI/CD, Automation, Cloud & GA releases
• In earlier role, was India Leader for Optum Insight Payer Technology (Risk & Quality, Payment Integrity, Value-based Care) with the team size spanning 5 major development centers across with the team strength of 800+ workforce.
• Health Tech Leadership:
• Payer (Risk & Quality): Retrospective & Prospective programs, Quality Measures Solutions, Data & Analytics Platforms
• Payer (Payment Integrity): Coordination of Benefits, Datamining, Fraud Waste Abuse & Error, Recovery, Data Pipelines & Platforms
• Provider: Led platform teams - Clearing House, Clinical Data Exchange, Physician Advisory Support
• Innovation Lab:
• Was responsible for setting up state-of-the-art Innovation Lab as a value-delivery asset, accessible to all sites in multiple geos at India & Philippines helping incubate innovative ideas to solutions for actual business scenarios
• Led Innovation Research & Incubation team. Incubating emerging technology capabilities in AI/ML, IoT, Bigdata & Analytics, Wearables, & HCD. Accountable for innovative solutions like – Virtual Assistants / Chatbots, IoT based Remote Care Management and Medication Adherence, ML based Image Processing etc.

Aug 2005 – Aug 2011 · 6 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Led product management / strategy for Integration, Web services & SOA products for 14K+ customers across US, EMEA, APAC delivering business value of substantial cost reduction in tech modernization for ones moving from Oracle EBS to Fusion Apps
• Product Strategy & Product Management – Oracle E-Business Suite ERP
• Managed a portfolio of 18+ Integration & SOA products within the Application Technology Group at Oracle.
• Identified opportunities and developed business cases for new products, defining product strategy and roadmaps.
• Conducted technology assessments, solution architecture reviews, competitive analyses, and market research.
• Drove the full product development lifecycle, collaborating with pre-sales, consulting, support, & training teams.
• Led product positioning, pricing, licensing, analyst discussions & spearheaded product launches / GTM strategies.
• Featured speaker at global events, including Oracle OpenWorld, USA, for multiple years.

Apr 2000 – Aug 2005 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Cordys R & D India was a product development company founded by Jan Baan (BPM and SOA Suites)
• Responsibilities
• One of the 4 original product managers’ team for building Cordys Business Collaboration Platform
• Successfully delivered Cordys Portal with Business Intelligence & Enterprise Collaboration ((User groups, information sharing, common knowledge-base, online collaboration - Chats, Polls, Forums, Blogs) Frameworks as part of Middleware & Business Intelligence as Web services, Cordys Learning Management System