Campion School

Campion School, Bhopal

Cornell University

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Partner, Firebolt Ventures

San Francisco, California, United States

Firebolt Ventures

Partner

Google

Director, Product Management, Play Store

Google acquired my company, <a href="http://Like.com">Like.com</a>, on August 20, 2010. I led the product team for the world's largest shopping search site

Director, Product Management, Google Shopping

Product Management, Engineering, Organic Traffic, M&A.  Google acquired <a href="http://Like.com">Like.com</a> on August 20, 2010

Like.com

Chief Product Officer

Investing in Enterprise Computing, Internet Infrastructure, Mobile Services and Consumer Internet.  My firm also invests in Semiconductors, Cleantech and Systems; we are a diversified global venture fund with a presence in the US, Korea, China, India, Israel and Europe.

Five exits as of September 2018
-  uGenie :  Sourced, diligenced, Board Member. Acquired by <a href="http://Lulu.com">Lulu.com</a> in June 2008
-  Slide : Diligenced, Board Observer.  Acquired by Google in August 2010
-  <a href="http://Like.com">Like.com</a> (Internet): Co-founded, sourced, Board Member.  Acquired by Google in August 2010
-  Zmanda: Sourced, diligenced, Board Observer. Acquired by Carbonite October 2012
-  Coupa: Sourced, diligenced, Board Member. Public on Nasdaq, November 2016

Radius (sourced, diligenced, board member) is still private.

BlueRun Ventures

Co-founder and CTO of a consumer internet company focused on search inside pictures; the company runs <a href="http://www.like.com">http://www.like.com</a>, a visual search-based shopping site for soft goods such as handbags, shoes, jewelry, watches and clothing.

Currently involved on the board since I'm now at a VC firm, BlueRun Ventures, that invested in Riya.

Riya, Inc (like.com)

Co-founder and CTO

- Managed a distributed product management and software development team (Bay Area and Bangalore)
- Responsible for all performance-related features of the Oracle Database.  Worked on Oracle9i Database Release 2 and Oracle Database 10g and drove a 28% increase in product performance.
- Planned and oversaw execution of all published performance benchmarks at Oracle for Database, Application Server, SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications.
- Guided Oracle from a lagging position in Database and Application Server benchmarks to world records in TPC-C, TPC-H, ECPerf and SPECjAppServer benchmarks
- Keynote speaker at Oracle customer events
- Responsible for Oracles technology relationship with SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAS with the goal of increasing usage of Oracle Database by customers of these ISVs.
- Represented Oracle to the media on Performance issues  e.g., see <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4282">http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4282</a>

Oracle Corporation

Director, Server Advanced Technologies

- Developed business plan for a system management software company, specifically targeting operations management at large service providers and IT shops.
-  Investigated market size, product requirements and competition
-  Helped raise $1M from angel investors and launched Karient.
-  Wrote functional specification of Karient v 1.0n	Presented Karient vision to early adopter customers and secured four development partners, including a Fortune 500 financial services firm
-  Pitched Karient to the venture community and helped secure $3M in Series B funding

Karient, Inc.

- Conceived and brought to market Corio eMarket, the first integrated hosted software suite for B2B marketplaces.
-  Developed solution profile, negotiated with and integrated ISV partners, helped close first two customers, launched the solution offering and transitioned it to Corio Sales. See <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/360071">http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/360071</a>
-  Developed software to automate Corios IT operations.  Corio, a leading Application Service Provider, used this software to move from a manual, one-off customer deployment model to standardized, easily replicated operations, reducing costs as well as operational errors
-  Hired and managed a team of 18 developers and product managers

Corio, Inc

Senior Director, Engineering

- Led a consulting practice focused on enterprise application architecture, focusing on multi-billion dollar accounts in the Manufacturing sector.  Clients included Cisco Systems, Motorola, GE, Honeywell and Sun Microsystems.
-  Successfully delivered projects costing several million dollars and employing up to 100 people drawn from Oracle, the client and third-party vendors

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