Advisor to the Board driving Strategic Initiatives.

Veltirs was formed through the partnership and simultaneous combination of Wavelabs Technologies and West Agile Labs and is a next generation technology services company specializing in developing solutions in Data & Artificial Intelligence (“Data/AI”), Engineering R&D (“ER&D”) Services, and Digital Product Engineering Services (“D-PES”). Veltris drive velocity in innovation, accelerating new technology adoption, and technology transitions. This enables the company accelerate technology driven Enterprise, Business, and Industry transformations.Veltris is a trusted technology transformation partner to Tech Start-ups, SMBs, Mid-Market and Fortune 500 companies across the globe and offer “chip to cloud” product development services. We adopt a design-thinking centric approach to product development and provide services solution to accelerate product life cycle management starting with consultative solutioning, through design, architecture, development, testing, deployment and support.Post close, worked closely with the Sponsor team & Board to integrate the companies, revamp revenue/GoToMarket teams, formulate target segments around Start-up/SMB, Mid-Market & Enterprise, finalize sub-industry verticals with-in larger industry verticals, and continue to build upon the culture of Innovation in Technology, Customer-First, Show-N-Tell.

Wavelabs.ai, was an AI-first Technology company for the Digital, Cognitive & Industry 4.0 Era. After joining Wavelabs Technologies Inc. as CEO & President in Jan 2019, I drove the strategy, vision, business, execution, mgmt team build-out, technology practices, sales & marketing team, and grew the company from sub-100 to 500+ employees, and industry standard EBIDTA in under 4 years, in challenging pandemic & market conditions.Positioned and scaled the company as a premier AI-First Technology company for the Digital, Cognitive and Industry X.0 Era. This strategic direction served as the foundational base (platform acquisition) for organic and inorganic growth, leading to institutional investment and a merger with West Agile Labs to form Veltris, a 1000+ people company. Managed the entire aspect of identifying and pitching to various VC/PE/Growth PE Firms, the due-diligence process, transaction close with no involvement of Investment Banking firm. The capital raise (in Mar 2023) was also under extremely challenging funding & debt markets, specially for company of this size.The Transformation we drove were:1) AI / COGNITIVE: * Industrial AI: Pharma Mgft, Medical Imaging, FarmTech/AGV in Farming, Security & Surveillance* Generative AI: Investments/Funding, Legal & Compliance* Enterprise AI: Knowledge retrieval for Enterprises, Marketing, Finance* AI in Product Development: Driving AI roadmaps in Product dev.* Platforms: End-to-End AI Pipeline / XOps Framework2) INDUSTRY X.0 * Connectivity & Edge: Private/Enterprise 5G Product Development and Deployment (combining SD-WAN, EDGE) in remote industries* Digital Twins: Bio-Reactors, AGV, Human Anatomy, Heavy Industries with the help of the NVidia Omniverse.3) DIGITAL:* SaaS / PaaS platform development in Trading, Wealth Management, GigEconomy, Care, Beauty, Live Streaming of Concerts, etc.* Enterprise Digital Transformation: Bring Enterprise intelligence to life by building bolt-on applications

Terralogic is a 1000+ people Design, Engineering & IT Services company. Played a key role is taking the company from inception (as InfoNam) to 1000+ people company (organically & inorganically) until it’s acquisition by a PE firm.Managed Terralogic's Global Business. Incubated new customers for our latest practice horizontals & scaled existing clients using a 360-degree relationship model. Expanded our presence in the era of new Technologies spanning Digital, Cloud, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data etc. to help Companies with the transformations they are witnessing.

Drove our Engineering & IT Services Practice across all verticals. Prior to that, drove Engineering Services Practice and P&L for our Communications Industry practice.Took a Technology Centric approach & worked with :i) Communications Industry eco-systems to address Network Evolution & Transformations ii) Media & Entertainment Industry to address Digital Transformation iii) Hi-Tech Industry to address IoT & Autonomous Vehicle initiatives iv) Emerging Verticals such as HealthTech, TravelTech, Construction Tech, to address Industry Transformation happening in their respective industries. Key Accomplishments:===================1) Established Global Vendor status with key clients & ensured Terralogic's participation in multi-million dollar RFP's.2) Bought Innovation led cost Optimization to CIO & IT Organization by partnering with SD-WAN, Private Cloud, & Cloud based WLAN companies.3) Took a S.I approach to Streaming Content working with CMS, CDN, DRM, Billing & Payment and OTT Platform companies to deliver turnkey streaming services.4) Expanded our Automotive Infotainment capabilities to address ADAS.5) Drove DevOps Transitions with customers who wanted to migrate to a CI/CD & DevOps process

The Corp Dev initiatives I led at Infonam resulted in identifying Paxterra Solutions as a company to merge with. Infonam and Paxterra Solutions merge to form Terralogic. I went on to drive Global Business Development & Sales of the merged entity.Key Accomplishments :===================1) Worked with customers of both companies & bought in uniform Vision, Strategy & Direction. 2) Leveraged new capabilities & development centres to cross-sell & drive new business which resulted in creating two largest IT Services customers & Cloud Applications practice.3) Established a full-fledged Game Development studio in Vietnam for a gaming company. 4) Drove Corporate initiatives to enter the Construction industry & delivered BIM & IoT competencies for AECO industry. Key Client Engagements : Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper, Dell-EMC, Nutanix, Aruba-HPE, Nimble, Extreme Networks/Zebra, Shoretel, Spirent, Katerra, RockYou, E.A, Frankly/Worldnow,

Infonam was created with an objective to build a new breed software services company with a vision to be a new age Services Company to emerge from S.E Asia / Vietnam. Leveraging 25 years of evolution of the Software Services Industry, the idea was to create an Engineering Services company with a Start-up Culture (Agile, Nimble, Deep-rooted technology knowhow) with added advantages of stability and ultra-low cost. I transitioned to this role at the end of 2 years at Infonam. Key Accomplishments :==================1) Took a lead in Corporate Development / M&A initiatives to identify companies that we can acquire / merge for Inorganic growth of the company. Identified 8 companies and did due diligence for 4 of them which resulting in a merger of two companies. 2) Hired & groomed Sales team to scale the business and ran US Business Operations. Drove overall business to meet/exceed industry standard EBITDA margins.3) Expanded the M & E practice to Gaming, Audio, TV (TAAS, TVoD), & Publishing industries.4)Tracked investment happening in Industry Transformations and provided early break through in Health Tech, Fin Tech, & Travel Tech. Continued to expand foot print in Communications industry broke into Tier 1 OEM's and Silicon.5) Re-positioned our capabilities across Embedded S/W, Connectivity & Applications to go after IoT Segment and landed our 1st Connected Devices / IoT Customer.Key Client Engagements: Juniper, Zebra, XIFIN, Netspeed, DTS Inc, Light.co, Disney, Electronic Arts, Piksel, UUX, WorldNow/Frankly, MyDriver/Sixth

Hired as the 1st member of the Leadership / Management Team of Infonam Inc, in the US to drive the Strategy & build the Business from ground-up. Accomplishments in this role include :==========================1) Drove the strategy and built the business to lead the company through break-even and eventually profitability.2) Established the company in Networking/Telecom as a specialist in Testing & Automation by working with Test Equipment Manufacturers, Control Plane S/W Vendors, Networking Equipment Manufacturers.3) Identified Digital Transformation changing the Media & Entertainment landscape and positioned the company to be significant player in OTT VoD space working with OVP Platform providers and deploying VoD Services to end Service Providers across the globe.4) Took our Embedded S/W capabilities in Automative Infotainment space and stretched it to work with Consumer Device companies.Key Client Engagements : Spirent, IP Infusion, Motorola/Zebra, Bridgewave, Open Clovis, IXIA Communications, Sezmi/Kit-Digital, Integrated Digital, Ecrio, Snapstick/Rovi, Renesas

Charted to create the next set of Top 10 Strategic Accounts across Americas and break into new age companies (i.e Google, Facebook etc). Key Accomplishments :=================1) Closed one of the largest services deal in the history of the company and in the process created one of the new Top 10 account.2) Closed the largest single product licensing deal.3) Helped create a Semi-Conductor Company as large strategic account.4) Broke into Google as an account.5) Landed the 1st Smart Energy customer there by expanding the company to a new domain.5) Grew the West Coast Region to a high Revenue generating region in US.Key Client Engagements : Juniper, Google, Mellanox, LSI, Echelon, HP, Ericsson,

KKR and Sequoia Capital acquire FSS and rebranded the company as Aricent. This was the largest leveraged buy-out deal in the history of Indian Services Industry.I continued my growth trajectory as a Sales Leader heading the US West Coast Sales region and built a solid team of hunters and farmers to go after specific geographies & strategic accounts across Bay Area, S.CA and Pacific North West. The West Coast become the largest contributor of Revenue during this time. Broke into several Tier 1 and Tier 2 accounts and shifted our focus to create Strategic Large accounts in the region. Key Accomplishments:===================1) Took an Eco-system approach of "Sell To" and "Sell Through" to build the business combining Silicon + ODM H/W + Control Plane S/W + Services which helped open up many Tier 1's in the region. This help build a strong Silicon practice for the company. 2) Expanded our foot print to Mobile, Home Entertainment & Multi Media Products. 3) Expanded our foot print in non-OPD areas like Remote Infrastructure Mgmt, BPO/Support4) Expanded our industry coverage to go after Smart Energy, Smart Grid.5) Won Presidential Award for exceeding individual & regional targets for 5 consecutive years. Key Client Engagements : HP Pro Curve, Fujitsu Networks, Cisco, Avaya / Nortel, Wichorus / Tellabs, Openwave, Broadcom, Marvell, LSI / Agere, RMI, Cavium, UT Starcom, Hughes, Blade/HP, SUN / Oracle.

Flextronics Software Systems (FSS) was created by merging companies with complementary set of Products & Services Offerings to create an end-to-end Communications Software Company with offerings for Mobile Handsets, Equipment Manufacturers & Services Providers. The companies that combined to create FSS were Hughes Software, Future Software, E-muzed, DeccaNet, Frog Design, DataLinx etc.I went on to manage Bay Area / N.CA region within the West Coast Territory. Expanded the company's foot print across the following domains.1) Data Communications : Switching, Routing, IP Backhaul, BRASS, L2-L3 Control Plane S/W, L4-L7 Aplliances, Service Provider Core & Edge Solutions2) Wireless Communications : 3G/4G, EPC, WiMax, WiFi, UMA3) Mobile Handsets : UE Protocols, Mobile Software Development.4) Applications and VAS : Mobile VAS and Apllications.5) Independent Software Companies (ISV's)6) Multi-Media : Audio, Video Codecs on various ARM & MIPs processors and other Multi Media offerings.7) Billing, OSS & BSS Offerings to Carriers / Service Providers, CLECS & ILECS.8) Semi-Conductor : Drove company wide initiative to expand business with Silicon companies.Key Client Engagements : Cisco, Redback/Ericsson, Tasman/Nortel/Avaya, Symbol / Motorola, Veraz Networks, 2 Wire / Pace, Palm/HP, Danger/Microsoft, Flextronics, Real Networks, Nuance, SyBase/SAP, Force 10 / Dell.

Moved to Silicon Valley to be part of West Coast Sales team tasked to establish company's presence in Internet Technologies. Within the 1st year the role extended to sell all the offerings of the company within S.Bay region. Achievements Summary:==================1) Sold Engineering R&D Services & Licensed VoIP, PSTN, 2G/2.5G/3G Protocols Stacks to NGN & Wireless Technology Companies in the bay area.2) Established HSS's positioning & presence as a Value Added Products, Solutions & Services provider in these technologies and built long lasting services business with customers in this space. Key Client Engagements : Polycom, Shoretel, Sylantro/IP Unity/Movious, NextVerse/Dialogic, Longboard, McFee/Network General, Azaire/Polaris Wireless, Interwave Communications, Powerwave, Covad, Zhone Technologies, SS8 / Newnet etc.

The Bangalore Division of HSS was started to incubate Products & Services in the Internet & E-Commerce domain. I was part of the Marketing, Pre-sales, Product Management and India sales team for the Internet Technologies Offerings. Achievements include:=================1) Product Management, Worldwide Pre-Sales & India Direct Sales for their e-Commerce Product , SwiftBill an Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment (EBPP) Solutions. Evolved the product to position it to Telecom Services Providers, Banks, Utility, Insurance, Credit Card & other billing companies. Successfully acquired the first few customer in India e.g MTNL, MoneyFundas .com and supported Worldwide Sales team in pre-sales & solutioning.2) Actively participated in the evolution of their VoIP (SIP Stack, Server, UA Toolkit) Solutions portfolio & other Internet based technologies offerings.3) Traveled extensively to US to expand company's positioning in Billing, OSS / BSS space and landed the first few customers.

Hughes Software Systems (HSS) started as a India development center for its parent company Hughes Network Systems to service their division across Satellite Networking (SDN), Digital Cellular (DCN) and Enterprise Networking (ENS) and quickly expanded to provide these services to the wider Communications Industry. I joined HSS fresh out of college to work with their Head of HR, IT, Purchase & Corp Communication to roll out various initiatives across these functions. Got great insight into all Support and Backend Operations of an organization. Summary of Accomplishments :=======================1) HR: Compensation & Benefits Management. Drove Industry wide Compensation Benchmark Initiatives and promoted concept of Pay for Performance, Ran Campus Recruitment Marketing Programs to hire best talent into the company, rolled out Role Based Training Initiatives for all levels across the company and trained employees on soft skills such a Motivation & Empowernent, Implemented HR IMS, Managed Employee Satisfaction Surveys & Exit Interviews.2) IT : Implementation of IT Automation & Enterprise Application Initiates for all Support Functions.3) Purchase: Automation of Purchase Functions & Approval process of the company. 4) Corporate Communications: Activities & Events to build a Vibrant, Open & Informal Culture within the Company. Launched various events that are hallmark of the company's culture to this day.

Marketing & Sales Intern for Amex's Credit Cards Division. Focus on Credit Card Acquisition, Retention & Spend programs. Worked on rolling out marketing programs for various products and learnt the basics of Marketing, Pre-Sales, Sales, Credit Card industry and its dynamics.