I am currently CEO of Yahoo! India R&D. Prior to joining Yahoo!, I was involved in buyout activities focused on taking mid-sized software product companies private. Before that I was the India General Manager and corporate VP of Product Operations with Symantec (formerly VERITAS Software) and was responsible for the turnaround of VERITAS operations in India.
I was earlier a co-founder and CEO of Teltier Technologies, a New Jersey based wireless infrastructure start-up that became the leader in the Presence and Availability Management space and is now part of Cisco.
Further back in time, I managed product development teams at Lucent Technologies both in US and in India and setup AT&T’s and later Lucent’s R&D organization in India in the mid-90s, at a time when offshore product development was just getting underway.
My career started with DCM Data Products, in their software R&D group in New Delhi, where I was working on developing UNIX server platforms based in i86 architecture. I later had a stint, as an early stage employee, with an Apple supported start-up where I learnt how the absence of marketing skills can derail a good product business.
I am passionate about making product development succeed in India, both for MNCs as well as for domestic players. I am an active mentor in the NASSCOM Mentoring Program and Chair the TiE Bangalore SIG on Intrapreneurship. I am also a long-standing member of the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering. I have an Electrical Engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering.
Sharad Sharma
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