VIBLIO (Video Analytics),Santa Clara, CA, 2012-2013
- Amazon AWS hosted personal video organization service using machine learning and classification.  

Co-founder and CEO, 2013 – 2013
- Acted as interim CEO in hiring the technical team, developing video processing pipeline using Python including transcoding. Managed eLance consultants for “resumable” uploader and site validation. Exited the company as the product was launched.

CORTINA SYSTEMS, Sunnyvale, CA, 2004-2014
- Leading provider of high-performance communications semiconductor solutions.  

Vice President of Business Development, 2011 – 2014
- Responsible for sales and marketing of Cortina’s Router Gateway SoC (CS75xx) to the internet service providers. Built relationships all major operators, OEMs and ecosystem partnerships. Won FiOS gateway at Verizon and built a revenue pipeline of $20M/year.

Operators: AT&T, Bouygues, Comcast, DirecTV, Orange, Verizon

OEMs: Actiontec, Arris, Cisco, Netgear, Pace, Technicolor

Partnerships: Broadcom, Qualcomm, Quantenna, ST Micro, Vixs, Zenverge

Vice President of Business Development,2007 – 2010
- Managed product definition and development of Router Gateway chipset including product requirements, IP selection, RTL, DV, FPGA emulation, bring-up, software. Delivered silicon and software within budget and schedule. No major bugs; production in 6 months
- Led a team 75+ RTL, DV and software engineers in India, Taiwan and US
- IP core selection and licensing for CPU, Crypto, DDR, PCIe, SATA, USB etc.
- Silicon bring-up complete within 24hrs for full networking traffic and booting Linux.
- Identification of critical issues. Quick intervention to resolve development issues.

Vice President of Business Development, 2004 – 2007
- Responsible for strategic market directions for Cortina: analysis of emerging markets, built relationships with ecosystem partners. Evaluated 100+ companies for M&A transactions and successfully executed of all four of Cortina’s acquisitions.
- Markets analyzed: Passive Optical Network, Storage, Security, WiMax
- M&A transactions: Azanda, Intel Optical Network Division, Immenstar, Storm Semi
- Attended standardization meetings at IEEE, ITU and FSAN

Azanda Network Devices, Sunnyvale,CA ,2000-2004
- Networking semiconductor provider of leading line-card chipsets for high-end routers and switches

Founder and CEO,2004-2004
- Reappoint as CEO by board of directors to sell the company. Engaged with multiple potential suitors and successfully sold the company to Cortina Systems
- Completed M&A transaction from the seller side, negotiated the Definitive Agreement

Founder and Chief Technical Officer 2001-2004
- Responsible for product definition and architecture for Azanda’s flagship Traffic Management product. Numerous customer presentations and interactions to define and sell to OEMS. Delivered market leading traffic manager with 20ppm traffic shaping accuracy resulting in design-wins at major router vendors.

Router OEMs: Alcatel, Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, Redback
- Started the company as OC192 and later pivoted to OC48 based on Cisco interest
- Won Fabless Semiconductor Association’s "Start-Up to Watch" award for 2002

Founder and CEO, 2000-2001
- Raised Series-A funding from Tier-1 VCs and recruited starting team
- $10M from Bessemer Ventures, Highland Capital, Goldman Sacks and others
- Recruited CEO, VP Engineering, Operations and key technical team