Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• We are building one of the best compound-AI, Agentic systems that can intelligently orchestrate agents with LLMs, RPA, APIs and other tools to automate complex business processes and boost productivity of business users in banking and finance. We are using this powerful system to understand financial data at a deeper level, rethink financial workflow automation and enable Agentic Finance. Our first product is a banking co-worker that speeds up complex Investment banking workflows for M&As, IPOs and target company analysis.

Sep 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• My team at Sambanova was responsible for building software stack aka the Sambanova Suite. Sambanova suite is one of the first vertically integrated AI stack that consists of a front end playground experience, model hub, LLM training dashboards and a K8-based deployment & orchestration system. We built the Product and Engg team from ground up and released the first version of the extensible stack that can support the future scaling needs of our customers and the company, in a record 7 months. SambaNova suite went on to win the Time Magazine’s invention of the year award.
• Sambanova is a pioneering full stack AI company that is leading the way in the world of business foundation models. As one of the first companies to offer foundation model training and inference in a box you own, we are empowering businesses to harness the power of advanced AI and take their companies to new heights. Our state-of-the-art technology allows you to customize foundation models, like GPT-3, to fit your specific business needs.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Hybrid

• I have been lucky to be a part of some amazing companies as an investor -
• KodeSage
• Coinvent.ai
• Invariant Labs (Exited to Snyk)
• Simbian
• Billables
• ConductorOne
• StepSecurity
• Adept (Exited to Amazon)
• Knitwise
• Aviso

Jun 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bellevue

• Founded the AI product team at UiPath and was responsible for building the next-gen AI-powered Process Automation platform.
• UiPath pivoted from being a pure play RPA company to an RPA+AI platform in 2018 and became an AI thought leader in the RPA space within one year, with Innovations from our teams like
• AI Center (MLops powered Drag'n'Drop AI skills)
• Document Understanding (Workbench with Intelligent OCR, template based and ML extraction)
• Process Understanding (Process mining, Task mining and Task capture)
• Computer vision (Automating Dynamic interfaces and virtual desktops)
• Insights (RPA ROI BI/analytics)
• We built the AI business from ground up with a high performance team using a strategic mix of organic and inorganic growth tactics, working with Engg, Prod marketing, Corp Dev, Tech alliances, Sales, Finance and Services.
• My teams launched six new product lines, orchestrated two acquisitions and pioneered the use of Kubernetes for scalable backends across the company.
• We built an industry-first hyperautomation platform that combines RPA, ML, Intelligent OCR, Analytics, Process Mining and MLOps into a coherent business process transformation system, targeted to unlock the next level of efficiency in digital enterprises.
• UiPath went public (NYSE:PATH) and had been featured among the top 3 companies in Forbes Cloud 100, Inc's best workplaces for 2020, FT America's fastest growing companies 2020, 2020 CNBC disruptor 50, Forbes AI 50 2020 , in addition to being a leader in every Gartner Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave, and Everest Peak Matrix for RPA.

Apr 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• I led the product and business for Sales Intelligence AI solution.
• Sales Intelligence (SI) helps manage the complete B2B customer lifecycle by applying reinforcement learning and deep learning on the whole sales funnel for Lead scoring, Opportunity scoring, financial forecasting, churn prediction and upsell/cross-sell recommendations. SI is Microsoft’s next gen sales and marketing AI system ( Part of Dynamics 365 AI ) for the large enterprises like Fortune 1000 companies, looking to digitally transform their sales and marketing functions. Sales Intelligence digitally transformed and modernized Microsoft Sales, cutting across sales functions like inside sales, field and CSM, serving thousands of sellers, managing millions of leads and making $1B+ in AI attributable revenue.

Oct 2011 – Apr 2017 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on strategic projects that use cutting-edge AI to push the state of the art in Microsoft's products and leapfrog the competition.
• Started the "AI for CRM " area in Microsoft. Co-Founder of the DeepCRM group that pioneered next generation AI-powered sales and marketing functions across Microsoft. We were one of the first product groups to be incubated and spun-off from Microsoft Research.
• Was part of Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies ( MSR NExT), an organization of world-class researchers, engineers, and designers devoted to creating potentially disruptive technologies for Microsoft and the world. My charter was to use deep learning to build the next potential $1B+ enterprise business for Microsoft.
• Pioneered Intent and task extraction ( surfaced as Outlook Insights/ Commitments ) from emails with a lightweight text extraction ML component.
• Headed the Microsoft Research-Microsoft Office strategic partnership, prototyping and technology transfer. Started more than 40 incubations that infused Intelligence into Microsoft Office products including Exchange/Outlook (deep learning powered Outlook search, intent detection), Excel (natural language formula entry, Ideas), Sway and led to new products like Office Lens and PowerBI quick insights.
• Briefed CXOs at Microsoft's major enterprise customers on the Microsoft Innovation roadmap and process.

Jun 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Feature Crew Owner/Product Manager
• Developed the Readmissions Manager (RAM) - one of the first enterprise grade predictive analytics system for healthcare that uses machine learning on patient data to predict hospital readmissions.
• Organized and coordinated the launch of RAM with Marketing, Engineering and Services, managing a multidisciplinary team and released the solution in a record three month ship cycle.
• Program Management
• Managed the MS Amalga Notewriter, an eDocumentation tool for doctors.
• Managed the Amalga population management features
• Advanced R&D and Prototyping :
• Managed prototyping at Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Lab in Health Solutions Group, developing thirty prototypes over two years. Several of which made into the main product and were showcased at public forums like HIMSS and Microsoft Media Briefings.
• Managed HSG Research intern program by recruiting, mentoring and managing twenty PhD interns from top schools all over the world. Most of whom were subsequently hired as FTEs in Microsoft.
• Customer Interfacing :
• Administered the deployment of new prototypes in hospitals. Collaborated with hospital C-level executives for technology road mapping, requirement analysis and evangelizing MS products
• Technology Harvesting :
• Managed Cross-group collaborations and tech transfer of Microsoft assets for Healthcare applications.
• Partner Management :
• Reviewed, established and maintained strategic partner relationships with Microsoft research, external R&D and start-ups.

Dec 2005 – Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Phoenix Area

• Usuggest was a pioneer in social shopping space, being one of the first companies to merge social data with online shopping. Covered by WSJ as one of the only ways on the web at its time to monetize social recommendations, it was an early adopter of cloud technologies for COGS reduction.
• Managed and coordinated product development, budgeting and partnerships
• Developed a patent pending Web 2.0 social shopping E-commerce platform
• Facilitated hiring and management of the design, development and operations teams through diverse outsourcing partners and developed systems to integrate the radically different business processes
• Built one of the world’s largest online shopping catalogs with 22 million products, which was featured among top 3 product recommendation sites by Wall Street Journal within 10 days of stealth launch.
• Invited as speaker at AAIC 2005, Intel Berkeley challenge and Dow Jones Web Ventures Conference