Sharad Mehrotra is a renowned technology executive with extensive experience in creating successful business ventures based on cutting-edge technology, team building, and fundraising. He holds advanced degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. Sharad has over 30 US patents granted or pending and is a skilled technologist with in-depth knowledge of enterprise, cloud and service provider infrastructure, storage and network I/O protocol stacks, and platform management software, virtualization and containers, among other areas. His career spans influential positions at various organizations such as Platina Systems, Saratoga Speed, Hewlett-Packard, Fabric7 Systems, Procket Networks, and Sun Microsystems, to mention a few.

At Platina Systems, Sharad is currently serving as the Chief Product Officer after consulting for the company in the past. Before that, he was the CEO and Founder of Saratoga Speed, Inc., where he also served as a board member. Sharad has an outstanding P&L and operations experience, strong venture and corporate fundraising expertise, and is accomplished at team building with a fantastic lead-by-example and motivational style.