Experience

AI Bloks / LLMWare

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Oct 2022 - 1 year 3 months

  Greenwich, Connecticut, United States Generative AI startup focused on building enterprise LLM-based applications for knowledge-intensive industries (financial services and legal), with specialized models and applications built on top of open source LLM development platform (llmware).



Exadel

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

  Greenwich, Connecticut, United States Led product engineering services business to substantial organic and inorganic growth; integrated 3 acquisitions; accelerated globalization efforts into Latin America (Colombia, Mexico and Brazil), Canada and strategic EU/NATO locations (Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary); championed key high-value innovation areas including AI, Blockchain, Cloud (AWS), MarTech, FinTech; and "Remote First."



HCLTech

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Corporate Vice President, Global Head, HCL Software

  • Sep 2016 - Nov 2021

  Greater New York City Area Started and led HCL Software, grew from 0 to $1.2B in annual revenues over 5 year period, as business head and P&L general manager - led global team of 5000+ people - drove transformation and innovation across portfolio of 50+ enterprise products, designed and built product strategy, product management, sales, marketing and customer success functions to support 10,000+ customers globally.

• Executive Vice President, Corporate Development

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2016

  Greater New York City Area Launched global corporate development function with mission to build HCL's inorganic growth strategy, including acquisitions, carve-outs, and innovative strategic partnerships and deal structures.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President - several roles

  • Aug 2003 - Dec 2013

  U.S., Spain, China, India -Started and launched industry solution software sales unit in Americas - created industry solution strategy, built sales organization of 50+ industry experts and brought 60 new industry solutions to market- grew revenue from 0 to $150 million in 3 years -Started and launched India domestic market BPO business as general manager - met over 500+ C-level execs, won 10 new logo multi-year client contracts and grew business to 9000 people over 3 years (based in Bangalore, India) -Won… Show more -Started and launched industry solution software sales unit in Americas - created industry solution strategy, built sales organization of 50+ industry experts and brought 60 new industry solutions to market- grew revenue from 0 to $150 million in 3 years -Started and launched India domestic market BPO business as general manager - met over 500+ C-level execs, won 10 new logo multi-year client contracts and grew business to 9000 people over 3 years (based in Bangalore, India) -Won $1B+ in transformational outsourcing new logos (multiple $100M+ deals) as strategic sales and business development leader in emerging markets (based in Beijing, China) Specialized in building and running large-scale strategic sales organizations in change agent capacity, driving innovative offerings, business models, skills & approaches, reaching new client stakeholders (especially at CEO/CFO/COO levels), and expanding in international markets. Repeatedly sought out tough, complex "breaking new ground" entrepreneurial roles. Show less



webMethods, Inc. (acquired by Software AG)

• Senior Vice President & General Manager

  • Oct 2001 - Jul 2003

  Sunnyvale, California Started and scaled financial services vertical business unit with cross-functional responsibility; launched new industry-focused product and solution offerings, leading to substantial growth in new customers and total revenue.



Robertson Stephens

• Managing Director

  • 1998 - 2001

  Managing Director and head of the software investment banking group, responsible for origination and servicing of equity financing and M&A transactions in the enterprise software industry, completing over 40 transactions with aggregate deal value in excess of $5 billion. Ran $120m group P&L, and group of 30 bankers. Fastest promotion to MD in history of the firm.