Jeh Daruvala

Co-Founder

Greater Vancouver, Canada34 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple innovative tech startups.
  • Expert in speech analytics and business intelligence.
  • Proven track record in technology commercialization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a tech entrepreneur with expertise in AI, business intelligence, and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceSpeech AnalyticsTechnology CommercializationSystems AnalysisBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

Corporate DevelopmentData ProcessingEnergy SolutionsBitcoin MiningFinancial AnalysisComputer Vision AISatellite Remote SensingSAPBusiness TransformationProject ManagementGlobal Test Program ManagementMarketing StrategyNetwork SecuritySystems IntegrationCustomer Management

About

I am a science enthusiast & tech entrepreneur who enjoys product management, systems analysis & business development. Industry experience includes AI / Speech Analytics, Enterprise Software, Telecoms/Networking and Investment Banking. Before migrating to Canada in 2002, I helped roll-up Firstsource (NSE: FSL). While working on Delsys, my first startup, I sold the first-ever ethernet switch in India (Cisco). My north american career involved stints with Microsoft, TELUS & T-Mobile. As Founder & CEO of Core AI / Speech Analytics pioneer Yactraq.com I focus on systems analysis & corporate development. I've been passionately interested in spaceships and robots since childhood and am a believer in the evolutionary impact of scientific discovery & technology innovation as the key driver of corporate / economic growth & human welfare. Specialties: - Technology Commercialization - Technology Business Strategy - Product Marketing / Management - Systems Analysis - Corporate Development

Experience

34 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Starfleet ventures inc.

Founder & CEO

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Vancouver, Canada

  • Starfleet is focused on the commercialization of space technologies.
  • Its current emphasis is:
  • Computer Vision AI solutions based on Satellite Remote Sensing Data.
  • Satellite Communication based Business Intelligence
  • Medium Term plans cover Orbital Aerospace Programs including Satellite Platforms and Launch Vehicles.
  • For more information please visit https://www.starfleet.ventures
Computer Vision AISatellite Remote SensingBusiness IntelligenceTechnology CommercializationBusiness Development

Quantum alchemy

Founder & CEO

Aug 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Quantum Alchemy delivers energy savings and energy cost recovery solutions through productive uses of the waste heat of bitcoin mining computers. Owners of buildings, factories and farms can get very attractive financial benefits from our customized solutions. For the same energy (or less) that customers consume for heating / cooling alone, they can simultaneously mine Bitcoin which can potentially cover energy costs and more, depending on the price of BTC and energy rates.
Energy SolutionsBitcoin MiningFinancial AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentTechnology Commercialization

Intellectual ventures

Member - ICT & Extension - Technical Advisory Panel - IV Lab / Global Good Fund

Sep 2015Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

  • The Global Good Fund is a collaborative effort between Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures. Together, we invent, develop, and deploy commercially-viable technologies that improve life in developing countries.

University of british columbia - sauder business school

Judge - Enterprize Canada Business Plan Competition

Jun 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

  • Judge - Enterprize Canada Business Plan Competition at UBC - Sauder Business School

Yactraq online inc.

Founder & CEO

Feb 2012Present · 14 yrs 3 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

  • Yactraq delivers omnichannel business intelligence via Omnitraq, our audio mining platform. Omnitraq provides valuable insights on customer call operations, including CRM Interaction Analytics for sales, service & agent evaluation via speech analytics of phone calls. We provide insights to businesses of any size across industries, especially finance, retail, & travel.
  • Omnitraq extracts business insights through our award-winning and patented technology from phone calls & text. By delivering insights cost-effectively, with speed, and scale, Omnitraq provides both SMB & Enterprise clients with high impact BI tools. Our platform has been tested in the market with over 5 million minutes of production data processed, and Omnitraq pays for itself in less than 60 days. Our customers see 400% productivity gains for their quality analysts, who can now hyper-target which calls to audit, rather than using a random approach.
  • Yactraq is a Gartner 2016 Cool Vendor in Smart Machines, has received multiple Gartner mentions, and was among the first 20 companies showcased in IBM Watson's Cognitive Gallery. Yactraq became an Intellectual-Property-for-Defense (IPFD) partner of Intellectual Ventures in 2015, which gives Yactraq a unique position among speech-tech startups and an unparalleled freedom to operate in the marketplace.
  • Accolades include:
  • 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor (Smart Machines)
  • Mentioned in 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor (AI Core) Report
  • Mentioned in 2017 Gartner CRM Vendor Guide
  • Multiple mentions for Interaction Analytics in Gartner 2016 CRM Vendor Report
  • Information Today's Econtentmag.com Trendsetting Products of 2015
  • Winner, TiE50 - 2013
  • Speaking Experience & Thought Leadership:
  • Improving Speech Analytics with Machine & Deep Learning at Information Today's SpeechTEK Conference.
  • Next generation speech based semantics at AVIOS.Org's Mobile Voice Conference
  • Keynote at the Neil Squire Society, on leading team members with disabilities.
Speech AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceSystems AnalysisCorporate DevelopmentTechnology CommercializationProduct Management+1

Tie

Charter Member

Apr 2010Feb 2022 · 11 yrs 10 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Vantec (vancouver angel network)

Member

Apr 2009Feb 2022 · 12 yrs 10 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Telus

Business Systems Analyst

May 2006Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

  • Systems analyst with Business Transformation - SAP and Order Management groups.
  • Enabled the delivery of complex functionality through the implementation of methodologies like Function Point Analysis (FPA) & Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).

T-mobile usa

Business Analyst

Sep 2005Apr 2006 · 7 mos

  • Business Analyst with T-Mobile's HR Project Management Office
Business AnalysisSAPBusiness TransformationSystems AnalysisBusiness Development

Microsoft

Product Manager

Sep 2004Sep 2005 · 1 yr

  • Product Manager with the Microsoft Partner Program. Managed a global test program across more than 100 countries and 30+ languages.
Project ManagementBusiness Analysis

Aditi technologies

Business Development Manager

Jan 2003Sep 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Business Development for Aditi, including marketing strategy & implementation.
Product ManagementGlobal Test Program Management

Avendus advisors

Entrepreneur Development Manager

Jan 2000Jan 2000 · 0 mo

Network SecuritySystems IntegrationBusiness Development

Gateway capital

Associate

Jan 1999Dec 1999 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • At Gateway Jeh played a key role in incubating Customer Asset, an IT infrastructure services venture that evolved into the $1.4 billion, Firstsource Solutions (Ticker BOM:532809). Jeh sourced the acquisition of Customer Leverage, the software solution on which Firstsource offers its customer management services, and the team that developed it, into Customer Asset.

Ieee

Member

Jan 1998Feb 2022 · 24 yrs 1 mo

Delsys

Founder & CEO

Jan 1992Jan 2002 · 10 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Jeh's first startup, Delsys pioneered network security and systems integration services across financial, manufacturing, logistics and other verticals. While running Delsys, Jeh sold the first-ever ethernet switch in India (Cisco) to Reliance Industries. Other customers served included HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, DHL and Ford.
Marketing StrategyBusiness Development

Tata unisys

Trainee Engineer

Jan 1988Jan 1988 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • BE Final Semester Dissertation Work: An Artificial Intelligence project titled - Speech Synthesis from Unrestricted Text - Included re-platforming a rule-based expert system with more than twenty levels of nested sub-routines from the Burroughs B25 platform to Turbo-Pascal on MS-DOS. When combined with OCR capability, the system also functioned as an early implementation of a reading machine for the visually impaired.
Customer ManagementIT Infrastructure ServicesBusiness Development

Education

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Master of Management Studies — Finance

Jan 1988Jan 1990

University of Mumbai

Master of Management Studies

Jan 1984Jan 1990

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 1984Jan 1988

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