Fractional CGO (Chief Growth Officer) | Ex Samsung/Toshiba/Micron | Mentor/Advisor at TechStars, Plug & Play, CTO, Startout and FalconX | Keynote/Public Speaker | People Leader | 🏳️‍🌈

• Passionate leader driving strategy, innovation, and growth in Cloud, Storage, and ClimateTech industry. • 20+ years of experience across Product, Strategy, Marketing, Engineering, and Leading teams • My superpowers are networking, building partnerships, and strategic thinking • Scout for innovation, align customers and internal stakeholders and drive proof of concept to commercialize innovation. • Explored new markets, built innovative products, and realigned business models to markets to drive new growth. • Identified customer pain points and drove a solution to give them an edge to become a market leader • Foster Partnerships with customers, eco-system players, and internal stakeholders to drive growth for all parties. • As a Chief of Staff, took ownership of EVP's strategic projects, evaluated options, and drove them to success • Built a high-performance team to automate workflow, scale operations, and reduce time to market. • Social Impact investor: Invest in programs that provide basic needs (food/water) for low-income children so they attend school instead of working as a child labor • Social Impact investor: Invested in the production of a breakthrough film to normalize LGBTQ+ stories as a part of mainstream Bollywood • Set historical precedence, challenged societal mindset, and made a bold political statement by openly marrying my husband in Yavatmal, a small town in India, to set a new bar for the LGBTQ+ community to follow 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 • Hiking o Hiked for 15 years in over 20 countries o Organize monthly hikes for IIT-BayArea to build a network and strengthen the community • Photography o I have taken landscape, event, and portrait photography for over 35 years in all the 45 countries I have visited. o Created awareness and pull via social media for the different nonprofit organizations I served via creative photography • Traveling o Solo traveler to 45 countries who goes off the beaten path to connect with the local culture, history, food, architecture, and people o Insatiable curiosity to always learn, and expand the horizon o Seek out unique experiences during travel such as bungee jumping, parasailing, and tandem skydiving