Customer-centric engineering and business leader with focus on technology, data, and information. CTO and Head, India Operations. Manages end-to-end product portfolios with "Concept-to-Market" and "Life-cycle" phases. Handled with great passion the teams of product developers, the group was responsible for the annual revenue close to $300M. Heads P&L responsibilities in product development, support,
maintenance and services organisations at global level. Manages groups responsible for both NEW and CURRENT engineering solutions.

In the career span so far, fortunate to work for/with both large enterprises and start-ups in various domains like product organisations, services companies, research setups, professional
organisations and educational institutes.

As a Chairman of IEEE Pune Section, instrumental in bringing technology to masses especially in education and agriculture domains. Purely a volunteering role. It helps in increasing the horizons beyond computers by forming the ecosystem of academicians, incubators, NGOs, agriculturists, government and technologists(engineering, physical sciences, computer science, data science). Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for Affordable Agriculture (AA) and Healthcare are formed. Enjoys mentoring raw talent in technical and people skills. Participates in many start-up operations.
Visiting faculty, Industry Advisory Board(IAB) member, Board of Study(BOS) member, Industrial Associate in the National Innovation & Startup Policy (NISP) for various universities including Savitribai
Phule Pune University (SPPU).