• Sourced and/or drove due-diligence for 11 new/follow-on deals (>$50M in capital) across Seed to Ser E stage. 2 Exits done (Basis Science, Maginatics) in 1yr of investment with top IRR, other deals have seen a strong uptick in valuation.
• Board member in several startups, eg Reflektion, Enlighted, ElasticBox, Maginatics, and Arcadia Data.
• Excellent mix of Product, BizDev, Strategy and Ops exp at Sr leadership level in Big Data, Flash Memory, Natural Language Processing, 3D Camera/Apps and Supply-Chain Analytics
• Invited Speaker at several top events, eg McKinsey internal Leadership Conference and Big Data conferences.
• Fastest Eng PhD in University of Illinois (2yrs 9mo after Bachelor's degree).
• Always ahead of the curve, eg: worked on Big Data Analytics at Intel before industry created the term 'Big Data', launched 2 MOOC courses during grad school and published iconic papers on learnings.