Functional Skills

Product Strategy
Go-to-market Strategy
Technology Strategy
Statistical Analysis
Industry Expertise

Software Skills

Python
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Monday
Networking

Sector Experience

Media & Entertainment
Technology
Telecom

Languages

English
Tamil
Fortune 500

Experience

Naval Dome Cyber Defense Solutions Start-Up
Chief Technology Officer
6/2020 - 8/2021
As CTO and VP of Engineering, led a team of geographically distributed developers and brought a best-in-class OT cyber defense solution to market. Successfully deployed the solution in Tier-1 energy producers and operators.
dRoute, Inc. Start-Up
VP of Engineering / Chief Technical Officer
1/2019 - 8/2020
dRoute is the No-Compromise Network for blockchain, powering the decentralized world via the first autonomous layer-zero global backbone. dRoute gets blockchain ready for real world use, accelerating decentralisation, and restoring individual freedom and privacy to all.

Defined product strategy and direction. Managed several successful trials with crypto mining pools (Bitcoin and Ethereum) using a small, high-performance engineering team.
Datycs, Inc. Start-Up
Consultant
10/2019 - 5/2020
Datycs delivers technology solutions for automating extraction of clinical, administrative and sociodemographic data. Using NLP, valuable information in is unlocked from health data to provide key insights. Our solutions integrate this information with data from electronic health records, claims, and other administrative and social databases, to provide analytics and actionable insights to improve risk adjustment, revenue management, quality measure abstraction, and utilization reviews.
VidScale, Inc. Corporate Strategy & Development
Co-Founder / VP of Strategy and Business Development
3/2011 - 4/2018
VidScale, in partnership with the world’s mobile and landline service providers, integrated its cache and compute technologies into operator edges across the world, unifying them on a single platform and is exposed to content owners, platform providers, and application developers. Defined the product roadmap, strategy and business partnerships. Main person behind the partnership and collaboration with Ericsson. Acquired by Ericsson in 2018. Chief Advisor to Ericsson CTO from 2013 to 2018.

Movik Networks Product Management / Strategy
Co-Founder / VP of Product Management
7/2007 - 3/2011
Movik is a startup that enables mobile operators to improve their subscribers’ experience by intelligently delivering content from the network's edge. Incubated as EIR with North Bridge Venture Partners and Highland Capital through the seed phase and successfully raised Series A and Series B. Created a new product category, Intelligent Mobile Content Delivery. Defined the product vision and strategy including features, road map and partnerships with CDNs. Acquired by Ribbon Networks.
Bharti Airtel Corporate Strategy & Development
GM and AVP, Messaging and USSD
1/2007 - 6/2007

Recruited by the Board to run the VAS/messaging (SMS/MMS/SMS Router/Messaging Gateways) and USSD business for Bharti.Repositioned the USSD product portfolio around end-to-end solutions, resulting in a 30% increase in revenue targets.
Motorola Solutions Sales
Director, Business Development and Solutions Architecture
1/2005 - 12/2006
Core Networks is a $250m line of business responsible for Motorola’s applications & services including FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence), enterprise seamless mobility, Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC), Messaging product lines

Managed a global team,spread across all theaters, responsible for solutions definition and marketing, pre-sales support, and market development. My group played a critical role in winning the largest VoIP/IMS customer deal and over 54 PoC wins in 34 countries.
Axiowave Networks, Inc. Product Management / Strategy
VP, Product Management and Marketing
7/2000 - 12/2004
Responsible for all technical marketing, product marketing and product management functions for the XCR-series core and metro routing platforms. Provided recommendations to the executive team on product and technology strategy decisions and drove strategy to completion across multiple engineering and sales teams.

Managed and introduced the Axiowave XCR128 into the market securing several product trials and carrier design win
Lucent Technologies Product Management / Strategy
Director, Internetworking Technologies
7/1999 - 6/2000
Successfully positioned the Nexabit core router as the IP/MPLS QoS backbone router within Lucent’s existing ATM customer base looking to migrate to an all-IP backbone infrastructure.
Nexabit Networks Start-Up
Director, QoS Architecture
10/1997 - 6/1999
In-house QoS expert and led the team that architected, designed and implemented the end-to-end QoS subsystem for the NX64000. NX64000’s unique QoS features were the significant competitive differentiator that was the reason behind Nexabit’s first customer contract and the Lucent Technologies acquisition.