Kumaran Venkatesh (Venki) — CEO
Venki has over three decades of of work experience in consulting, Business Development, sales management, marketing ,operations and executive leadership roles across spacetech , Semiconductors & Software at MNC's and Indian companies at Hong Kong, Boston and India. Venki is the President of Astrome Technologies accelerating the growth and raising Series B funding. Prior to his current startup he was a Senior Director of Business Development at ARM (Softbank Group )developing IOT , AI/ML, Security, HPC & cloud Data center market. Prior to ARM, Venki was with an Industry body on Electronics and Semiconductors where he passionately worked to grow the Electronic System Design & Mfg industry as well as created an IOT ecosystem in India. He curated 16 IOT start-ups across MedTech, Wearables, Spacetech and mentored, coached and advised them on Execution, Market and funding capital. Prior to his current role ,Venki was spearheading Intel' s Wind River India business as India Country Manager.He passionately worked to open Wind River India Design Center, which helped Indian customers design world-class embedded solutions for Aerospace , Defence, Networking , Industrial and mobile markets. Prior to Wind River, Venki was Regional Manager (US East and Canada) with Tata Elxsi in the US . From 1987 to 2003, he held various senior management positions in India and overseas at Modi Olivetti, OnMobile, Motorola, and others. He is also a well-known personality in the media. His article and opinions are often published in leading technology and business publications. He was also featured in “Next Big Thing” on NDTV Good Times channel as a thought leader He is the Chief mentor of STPI IOT COE, Member of Government Fabless Task Force, co-chair of IOTNEXT, TiE Bangalore board member, founder member of NETRA Accelerator Foundation .Venki is also a corporate faculty of the ART OF LIVING and has taught to various sections of the society
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Telecommunications and IoT, specializing in business development and strategic partnerships.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 32 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Business Development
- Product Development
- Product Strategy
- Iot Strategy
- Strategy Development
- Ecosystem Building
- Business Management
- Customer Solutions
- Sales Management
- Market Strategy
- Telecom Strategy
- Channel Strategy
Career Highlights
- Over three decades of experience in technology leadership.
- Pioneered IoT ecosystem development in India.
- Expert in scaling DeepTech startups and securing funding.
Work Experience
Astrome Technologies Private Limited
President- Astrome (6 yrs 9 mos)
AxlerateNOW
President & Partner (7 yrs 6 mos)
Arm
Senior Director of Business Development (1 yr 4 mos)
India Electronics & Semiconductor Association- IESA
VICE PRESIDENT-Strategy and Operations (4 yrs 2 mos)
Wind River (subsidiary of Intel)
Country Manager-India (8 yrs 2 mos)
Tata Elxsi
Regional Manager -US East and Canada (1 yr 6 mos)
OnMobile Live, Inc.
Director- Business Development and Marketing, (2 yrs)
Motorola Computer Group
Country Sales Manager (4 yrs)
Modi Olivetti
Regional Manager- Channels (4 yrs)
Education
BE at B. M. S. College of Engineering
PGDBA at Bangalore University
at St Mary"s high School, Hubli
