Bio

Venture Investor with 20+ years' investing experience and a strong technical background. I am founding Managing Partner at NewBuild.VC, an early stage enterprise and supply chain venture investment firm. Prior to this, I was a general partner at NGP Capital, where I led Enterprise, Edge Cloud and Mobile technology investments. Previously, I was an investing partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where I led software, systems and technology investments, sat on 13 boards, and nurtured several companies to successful exits. I also held investment and corporate development leadership roles at Intel Capital and Cisco, was cofounder and CEO of a startup, Inksedge, and started my career as a design engineer at Bay Networks. I received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS from Case Western Reserve University and a B.Tech from IIT Madras. I am deeply involved in alumni giving as a Board Member of the IITM Foundation, board member of the MIT Club of Northern California and a Dean's Circle member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.