Sep 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · India · Hybrid

• Supervision of innovative student projects, Guest lecturing, Software IP development

Sep 2021 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Executive Advisor to some deep-technology start-ups and enterprises in India. Strategic advisory in competitive positioning, alliances, business development and human resources.

Sep 2016 – Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Business Development at NVIDIA, India. Promoted awareness and adoption of NVIDIA’s Artificial Intelligence initiative and platform across India. Strategized and executed outreach programs to leading Indian businesses and the start-up ecosystem.

Jul 2006 – Apr 2016 · 9 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Chief Technology Officer at Altair Engineering’s Technology Development Center in India with a mandate to accelerate innovation and industry-leading advances in scientific and mechanical engineering software simulation. Introduced bold initiatives for harnessing and developing human technical talent. Positioned the India Center for cost-effective experimentation of emerging technologies. Extended the organization’s technology footprint through alliances with leading domestic players. Evangelized engineering simulation with some of the largest Government and private industry manufacturing organizations.

Jul 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Technical marketing in High Performance Visualization for scientific and technical markets. Technology advisor and consultant to prominent Indian organizations in Industry and Government for the adoption of leading-edge 3D computer graphics and simulation platforms. Contributed to the development of a real-time remote visualization platform. Designed, developed and demonstrated a novel web-based remote 3D visualizer for industry early-adopters.

Jun 2001 – Jun 2004 · 3 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Early member of the executive team at Strand Life Sciences, a start-up computational Life Sciences company. Conceived and implemented efficient software development processes for disparate and geographically dispersed teams resulting in high-quality, quick turn-around project execution. Drove global business development and competitive positioning. Contributed and initiated strategic directions as a senior management member.

Aug 2000 – Jun 2001 · 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Principal Consultant to a start-up Mechanical Engineering Services division at a leading Indian manufacturer of agricultural equipment. Devised strategies for competitive positioning in a market entrenched with well-established incumbents. Responsibilities included market research, strategy, global business prospecting, commercial negotiation and project undertaking.

Jun 1995 – Aug 2000 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Lead a technical marketing team for Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (SGI) to initiate and establish their globally state-of-the-art computing and 3D graphics platforms across India. Responsibilities included technology evangelism, competitive technical marketing, consulting and business negotiations with leading organizations in Government, Defense and Manufacturing. Set up technology demonstrators with Defense and other agencies. Contributed to a global development effort in a first-of-a-kind hardware-accelerated interactive visualization API for massively sized 3D models. Conceived and executed technology awareness programs through cross-country road shows, seminars and proof-of-concept implementations. SGI’s India market share in scientific and technical computing grew to a dominating 70 percent at one stage due to these and other team efforts.

Jan 1992 – Jun 1995 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• As an entrepreneur in Bangalore, India, spearheaded the awareness and introduction of design, simulation and visualization software technologies to early adopters in the Indian manufacturing industry and government.

Jan 1984 – Jan 1991 · 7 yrs · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Key member of the R&D team at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), an erstwhile pioneer and global leader in Mechanical CAD/CAE software technologies in the United States. Conceived and developed state-of-the art commercial software programs in geometric modeling, engineering analysis and computer graphics. Transitioned to various leadership positions with responsibilities in applied research, competitive positioning, software development methodologies and technical marketing.