SRINIVASA G. VENKATARAMAN

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Seasoned executive with extensive experience in the software industry building venture funded companies, M&A activities and forging OEM partnerships

Extensive experience in defining, designing and managing complex software systems

Excellent combination of product & management skills and technical abilities

WORK EXPERIENCE

Advisory roles:

Powerhealth ondemand -- Healthcare

Iotdef – Security for IOT devices at home

Yaguara – data visibility for the entire organization

Kidaro (Virtualization) -- Sold to Microsoft

Kaviza (Virtualization) -- Sold to Citrix

RingCube (Virtualization) -- Sold to Citrix

Dexati (Android games) -- Close to 200 million game downloads.

Versal (Edu Tech) -- Online course creation and management.

Splashtop -- Remote access, remote display, Screen sharing.

Viewfinity -- Desktop rights management.

EIR for JK & B capital during 2009.

Unifyle LLC Boulder

Founder & CEO Dec 2016 to Present

Consulting and advising startups

Primadesk Inc. San Francisco

Founder & CEO Nov 2009 to Dec 2016

Primadesk helps users to search, manage, share and protect all their cloud based data from a single dashboard.

Primadesk had more than 200,000 registered users.

Recently pivoted the company to an enterprise solution to help employees manage all their files from a single dashboard.

Responsible for defining, designing and implementing all aspects of the product.

Signed up several customers including Telstra Australia.

Helped the company raise more than 1.5 million dollars.

Technologies include C++, Java, MySQL, javascript, Node.js,

Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac

Managing our AWS infrastructure.

Symantec Inc.

Vice President, Desktop Virtualization April 2008 to Aug 2008

Responsible for desktop virtualization strategy for Symantec:

Product strategy

Collaboration with System Integrators to create solutions around Symantec virtualization products

Definition of technology direction and standards

Evangelist for Symantec virtualization products

AppStream Inc.

CEO Mar 2004 to Apr 2008

Achievements include:

*Joined as EVP of products and became CEO in 2006

*Took over an engineering team with low morale and built into a great team that produced award winning products.

*Created product strategy and helped make AppStream the thought leader in the application streaming and virtualization area

*Turned the company around and sold to Symantec at more than 25 times revenue

*Grew revenues more than 10X in 2 years

*Built a strong management team, a world class engineering team and a collaborative work culture

*Forged excellent partnerships with Symantec, Intel, Dell and other leading companies

*Established partnerships with System Integrators such as TCS, Satyam and Infosys

Zonelabs Inc.

Vice President, R & D Dec 2000 to Jan 2004

Managed Product development, QA, Architecture, Design, Project management and Release groups. Responsible for all aspects of product delivery.

Responsibilities included:

*Building product strategy

*Defining technology direction and standards

*Defining the company’s platform, application architectures and API specifications

*Product releases for all the company products.

Achievements included:

*Grew the product team from around 20 to around 120+

*Managed the enterprise product from definition to release. The first release of this product was a finalist in the N+I show and the second release won the “Best of show” at Comdex 2002.

*Managed the development of MSP version of this product (with very highly scalable architecture).

*Implemented software development processes, quality metrics and necessary infrastructure

*Was part of the team which made several technology acquisitions

*Built partnerships for offshore development

*Worked with the CEO and COO to get B and C round financing

Senterprise Inc.

Vice President of products Apr 2000 to Dec 2000

Managed product development, product marketing, product management, QA, and Professional services groups for a small internet startup.

*Built product strategy

*Defined technology direction and standards and architecture

*Built the software development team and delivered a product from design to release in 3 months

*Implemented software development processes, quality metrics and necessary infrastructure

*Worked with the CEO to get angel investments

Autodesk Inc.

Senior Manager Software Development E solutions group Mar 1999 to Jan 2000

Managed software development function for e-commerce and e-business solutions.

Senior Manager Software Development and Test development Jan 1997 to Feb 1999

Managed two different functions for the AutoCAD market group with $1.0 mm budget. Known in AutoCAD market group for taking up challenging assignments and delivering quality work on time and on budget.

Manager Integration Services Group Mar 1995 to Jan 1997

Managed a group of programmers to provide integration, benchmarking, configuration management and mastering services for various product groups inside Autodesk.

*Recognized individually by the CEO for taking a team with problems delivering the goods and elevating it to the highest level in the AutoCAD market group

EDUCATION

Madras University, India

BE (Honors) in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering specialization in computer aided design.

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