Surjeet Singh
General Partner
Seasoned management professional with over two decades of multi-industry global experience as entrepreneur and executive leader — CFO, CEO, Board Member, Advisor to Founders and PE firms.
Proven track record in business turnarounds, business model changes, founder/management transitions, and leading private and public companies. Significant experience in diverse business models within Technology and Technology Services ranging from SI, Digital, SaaS, Managed Services, and Global Outsourcing. Board and advisory roles in private equity led portfolio companies. Successful corporate and entrepreneurial track record of building organizations and fostering collaboration in large and culturally diverse cross functional teams.
Merit Ranked undergraduate from University of Pune, Cost & Management Accounting and CPA degrees and graduate of Advance Management Program from Harvard Business School.
Named among India's 25 hottest young executives by Business today in 2008.
Advisor
Pallaw Sharma
Chief Data Officer and Analytics Officer, Cisco
Pallaw Sharma is the SVP, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Cisco, where he leads Cisco's enterprise-wide data and analytics strategy and execution. He is responsible for key data and analytics products and processes across Cisco globally, including Architecture, Platforms and Engineering, Master Data, Enterprise Metrics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence.
Pallaw has 20+ years’ experience creating and transforming businesses data and analytics platforms. With an extensive technical expertise in all aspects of product and customer lifecycles, he has led large, diverse, high-performing, global teams that have created significant business value by leveraging modern data platforms and processing infrastructure, software engineering, and AI.
Mike Gionfriddo
CTO at Pie Insurance
I am an accomplished technology leader who envisions and crystallizes innovation through world-class execution. A lifelong technologist, I started programming in high school and my passion for technology has never diminished.
Since graduating Carnegie Mellon, I have honed my leadership skills managing teams of over 200 and earned the prestigious Distinguished Engineer title from Sun Microsystems. I have built and led talented teams to deliver software platforms from inception through commercialization across a spectrum of markets with varied business models.
My career has enabled me to build processor agnostic compilers, engineer distributed database systems, pioneer the use of Java for system and network management, create a large-scale network for delivery of software services, and bring payment systems into the public cloud.