Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

• PurpleSphere.ai is creating secure & smarter spaces with AI Agents

Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

• I run the Time Series AI Cloud Business for Industrial segments (Smart manufacturing, oil & gas, energy production) at Falkonry. Our customers achieve higher productivity and sustainability using Falkonry's Time series data store (instant-on, cost-effective archival, reliable, cloud, access-anywhere), Historian (visualization, contextualization, change management, reporting, collaboration), Data quality management and generative AI-based anomaly detection and predictive AI-based pattern detection Apps.

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

• Combating pharma counterfeit by offering Induction Sealing-tolerant NFC tags with Tamper-Detect-Tail
• Patent for a meta-material inspired antenna structure, making a new generation of NFC tags that are induction sealing-tolerant and metal-tolerant, eliminating the need for expensive high permeability material (e.g., ferrite)
• Published peer-reviewed paper in IEEE RFID Journal 2024 on "Mitigation of Metal Body Proximity Effect in Magnetically Coupled HF RFID Systems" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10443627

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• Responsible for revenue generation globally and managing the Worldwide Sales Team.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• Joined as the CEO and launched UnifyTwin company (IIOT platform of Knowledge Lens (acquired by Rockwell Automation) selling AI/Digital Twin-powered productivity, and sustainability applications for manufacturing companies. The UnifyTwin IIOT platform was recognized by Gartner in the 2022 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant™ Report for Industrial IoT Platforms). Hired the executive team, including VP of Sales; responsible for revenue generation in the USA and Europe. Delivered the first customer ($30B manufacturer) within three months of joining. Rockwell Automation [NYSE: ROK] acquired Knowledge Lens.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · United States

• IITstartups is a Silicon Valley-based technology accelerator (www.iitstartups.org) that has graduated 120+ startups with 9+ exits as of Dec 2023

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

• Alumnus provides Physical AI/On-device Applications, Industrial IOT, SLM-based Generative AI, and Agentic AI services to enterprises worldwide, enabling faster time-to-value

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Silicon Valley, CA

• Konfer AI Agents for GRC bring intelligence and automation to complex governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes. No more manual audits, time-consuming policy reviews, or inefficient workflows—our AI-driven platform streamlines compliance management, risk assessments, vendor evaluations, and more.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

• ITBAA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving a powerhouse community of 20,000+ alumni in the San Francisco Bay Area and 45,000+ across the USA. As a Board Member and the Chair for the flagship annual leadership conference, I lead the effort to unite Silicon Valley’s most influential enterprises, entrepreneurs, and investors.
• Strategic Leadership & Impact
• Executive Curation: Responsible for identifying, inviting, and negotiating with global technology icons for keynote sessions. Past keynote speakers include Jensen Huang (CEO, NVIDIA), Ali Ghodsi (CEO, Databricks), Anima Anandkumar (CalTech Professor), Amit Zavery (COO/CPO, ServiceNow) etc.
• Ecosystem Orchestration: Building a cohesive network that bridges the gap between deep tech innovation, venture capital, and social impact drivers within the IIT alumni network.
• Community Advocacy: Serving as a primary driver for the professional advancement of the 20,000+ alumni from all IIT campuses who call the Bay Area home.
• Event Excellence: Directing the strategy and execution of our annual one-day conference, the region's premier gathering for IIT leadership and innovation

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

• Advising the executive team of Sparkflows. Sparkflows offers a comprehensive and unified self-serve Enterprise data and Al/Gen Al platform that empowers businesses to unlock transformative value from their data assets. It offers 60+ pre-packaged field-proven AI and Gen AI-powered Analytic Applications catering to the business insight needs of various industry verticals, including Retail/CPG, Telco, Insurance, Energy, Banking & Finance.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Relayr, a Kleiner-Perkins-funded AI/IOT startup (acquired by Munich Re) enables Industrial and manufacturing companies to generate new revenue from subscription services ("pay as you go") such as equipment-as-a-service.
• Responsible for driving revenue growth from strategic partner ecosystems (e.g., providers of Cloud, HW, Strategy consulting, financing, Private Equity); Sales pipeline development and new opportunity discovery across the globe; and managing CXO-level relationships as a trusted adviser for monetizing digital initiatives using AI, financing, and guaranteed/insured business outcomes.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led new revenue generation from Smart Manufacturing, Digital Transformation, IOT/AI services and Smart Building Management products (iBEMS) from 50+ Industrial and Manufacturing customers for this industrial engineering/manufacturing services company with revenue of ~$1B, a division of Larsen and Toubro, a global company with revenue in the U.S. of $22B.
• Developed strategic partnership with GE Digital, AT&T, Microsoft Azure, OSIsoft/Aveva, PTC among others. Represented the company in Industry forums e.g. SMLC (Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition), LoRA, OIC/OCF, University of Wisconsin Madison IOT lab).
• P&L responsible for a portfolio of global strategic accounts with a team in Asia, Europe, and the USA; built the largest revenue-generating account from zero.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Recruited by the Board and CEO to monetize the fourth fasted supercomputer in the world at the time, for this startup formed by the Tata Group of companies with $118B revenue, and acquired by TCS, $15B revenue in 2012.
• Launched the U.S. product sales offering, created a business plan and identified a gap in High Performance Computing cloud services opportunities.
• Led team efforts to define bare-metal HPC cloud services for scientific applications in Biotech, CFD, Oil and Gas, Cryptoanalysis domain areas and delivered revenue from Halliburton, KLA-Tencor amnong others.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 · 5 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Recruited by the Board and CEO to turn-around this VC-funded spin-off from Raytheon Corporation.
• and delivered Industry's highest performance 3G/LTE Remote Radio Head (RRH) for Cloud RAN.
• Restructured and transitioned the two year old startup from the development stage to revenue production.
• Delivered $60M in annual revenue during year-one of product shipments and closed large deals of $100M+ which led to the acquisition of the company.
• Built and led worldwide sales, product management, and customer success teams, developed partnership/alliances with strategic ecosystem players / sales channels

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Co-founded and Reported to the CEO of this VC funded Carrier-class networking equipment startup to plan and scale a transformational 10G Ethernet, ATM, MPLS switch company.
• Identified a gap in the Telecom space and determined that carriers needed support for high density ATM switches with MPLS migration
• Contributed to the executive team, developed and presented a business plan to VCs and raised $110M in capital from Silicon Valley VCs and Corporate Ventures.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Founding Team Member of Basis Communications, a Service-specific Network Processor start-up, acquired by Intel Corporation for $450M in 2000.
• Led product definition and positioning, partnered with ecosystem suppliers (e.g. ARM, Trillium/Intel, Wind River/Intel) for networking stack development
• Delivered 2 Beta customers.
• Established joint sales partnership with Alcatel, the #1 in DSLAM market leader (Alcatel), and Intel which led to $450M acquisition within 14 months of founding the company