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American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin

Silicon Valley Board Members

Piyush Malik

President

Piyush

Piyush Malik

President

Piyush has been the founding President of ASEI Silicon Valley chapter. Professionally he is an entrepreneurial thought leader in emerging information technologies. Currently he serves as Chief Digital Officer & CTO at a Private Equity Backed Cloud and Digital Innovation services startup Veridic Solutions. Prior to that he was the SVP at a Google Partner silicon valley based startup SpringML. He specializes in digital transformation and drives thought leadership and devises strategies and solutions for applying data science, AI/ML, Cloud, IoT and advanced analytics to improve business outcomes. Previously, Piyush led IBM’s Worldwide Big Data & Analytics Center of Excellence for the Digital consulting business focusing on data- driven business transformation.He also built the Global Information Integrity practice for PwC and has served Fortune 500 clients in 4 continents over the past 3 decades as a management and technology executive. He earned an engineering degree in electronics and communications from Delhi University and a masters in management of technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has been active in industry consortia as well as non-profits for over 25 years.

Surbhi Kaul

Vice President

Surbhi

Surbhi Kaul

Vice President

Surbhi Kaul is a business leader with immense strategy experience in both B2B and B2C companies. She has built & led product and engineering teams at technology icons like Google, YouTube, Netflix, Cisco to name a few. She has launched many successful and Insightful products over the last decade many of which encompass AI and machine learning expertise. She led query disambiguation and speech recognition efforts on leading edge Google Home and Google Assistant enabled devices using Google Cloud ML models. In her current role, Surbhi leads Juniper’s Enterprise DataCenter business as Head of Product for Network Virtualization and SDN Software products. She leads a large team of Product Line Managers, Technical Marketing Engineers and Solution Architects and manages complex cross-organizational initiatives. Using her motivational and EQ-based leadership style, she sets a clear vision for product development of cloud-native products to enable digital transformation of both services & enterprise businesses. Surbhi holds a Bachelor's in Engineering from IIT Kanpur and Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. She is currently pursuing a General Management degree at Harvard Business School. She is very passionate about supporting the IIT community and is one of the key leaders of the IIT Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning forum, a Board Member for IIT Bay Area organization, and the former President of IIT-Kanpur West Coast alumni association. She has also Chaired and led the "Women in Product" San Francisco Bay Area organization.

Amrish Chopra

Treasurer

AMRISH CHOPRA

Amrish Chopra

Treasurer

Amrish Chopra has 20 plus years experience is technology specifically in cloud services and virtualization. He has rele ased multiple products both commerical and open source. He has built and lead teams in US and India and currently leading a team of dev-ops and SRE at VMware. He is passionate of making technology more accessible for next generation and getting kids involved earlier. Amrish holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California State College and Master's degree from Santa Clara University in Engineering Management.

Niharika Srivastav

Secretary

Niharika Srivastav

Niharika Srivastav

Secretary

Niharika Srivastav has 25+ years of experience in engineering, projects/portfolio delivery, customer success, marketing, and sales leadership in large and small companies. She is the author of the book 'Cybersecurity for Project Managers' which was released in April 2022 and was a bestseller on Amazon. Her second book 'Security and Compliance for Leaders' will be released in February 2023. I pursued my engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, MBA at Delhi School of Economics, and Executive Leadership Program at Stanford. She run a cybersecurity training and consulting company, CyberEdx helping professionals gain the security and compliance knowledge and skills in a fun and engaging way.

Rakesh Guliani

Director - Stem & Youth Internships

RAKESH GULIANI

Rakesh Guliani

Director - Stem & Youth Internships

Rakesh Guliani has over 25 years of experience in the Information Systems, Recruiting and Staffing industry. Apart from extensive experience in handling large IT projects; he has a proven track record in operations management, sales and marketing, and recruiting. Mr. Guliani has been President and CEO of Park Computer Systems Inc., right from its inception in 1996. At Park Computer Systems, in addition to the general management duties, he led the company's overall marketing strategy and development initiatives and oversaw all recruiting efforts. He also served in leading companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Hyundai Electronics America, Tata Consultancy Services and CMC Ltd. Mr. Guliani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Masters in Computer Applications.

Kanakshila Tandon

Director

KANAKSHILA TANDON

Kanakshila Tandon

Director

Kanakshila has 15+ years of experience in product leadership. Whether it’s driving key company-wide strategic initiatives at Facebook, launching a product in 20+ international markets at HP, building a new technology platform at Microsoft, or establishing product org for startups, she loves the challenge of starting with something nascent and carving out the right strategy and plotting a course to drive results. She had been a mentor to many successful leaders and an author in various forums. Her passion for contributing to youth and corporate programs drove her to ASEI. She will be guiding and sharing leadership insights at ASEI, helping individuals to reach their next career goals

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi

Director

Praveen Vayalamkuzhi

Director

Dr. Praveen Vayalamkuzhi is an engineer turned entrepreneur with over a decade of international experience in transportation safety research. His research work focuses on improving road safety through educational and engineering measures - thereby achieving the goal of reducing road traffic fatalities and serious injuries. Currently, he is the President and CEO of MobilityVision Inc., a science-based organization that creates innovative resources and solutions to support the transformation of nations around the world to the safe and sustainable mode of mobility that he recently founded. He is actively involved in the International (Global) Road Federation as a member of the Road Safety Committee and Co-Chair of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence to Improve Road Safety Outcomes, in addition to other professional organizations like National Academics of Engineering and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board and American Society of Civil Engineer’s Streets and Highway Operations committee as the Secretary and corresponding member of the ASCE’s MARC. He serves as speaker, moderator and as reviewer for Transportation Research Board, International Scientific Journals, and International and National conferences and workshops. Dr. Vayalamkuzhi’s research work and community engagement has been recognized with a number of honors – he was named as the Rising Star of Safety 2022 by the National Safety Council and Forty Under 40 by the Association Forum in 2022. Dr. Vayalamkuzhi has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for his outstanding contributions to social advancement through research in the field of transportation safety management in August 2023.

Raj Yavatkar

Director

Raj Yavatkar

Director

Raj Yavatkar is the Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. In this role, Raj is responsible for charting Juniper's technology strategy and for leading and executing the company’s critical technology innovations and products in intelligent self-driving network, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. As a technology and products pioneer (60+ patents, 60+ publications) throughout his career, Raj has envisioned how emerging technologies can be applied to creatively solve enterprise and business problems ahead of the competitors and have helped establish new product lines.

Nimisha Patel

Director

Nimisha Patel

Director

Nimisha Patel is a seasoned executive of 25+ yrs helping organizations transform their business for growth. She is currently the VP of Operations and Integrations for a IT services Industry based in the US. She has an entrepreneurial mindset with a heart of a philanthropist. She continues to show her deep passion not only within the professional realm, but has shown immense contribution for non-profit through her own NGO and excited to see the same momentum for ASEI.

Mayur Palta

Director

Mayur Palta

Director

With over 20 years of leadership, technology, and competitive strategy experience, Mayur Palta's passion lies in teaching leaders and organizations how to outcompete the competition. As a technologist, Mayur held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies like Amazon Web Services, Databricks, Oracle, and Dell EMC as well as founded startups in telecom and chemical manufacturing. A Harvard Business School Alumnus, Mayur Palta is recognized as a thought leader in technology and competition in the Data and AI space. He has been advising clients globally on topics of AI, data, and cloud industry trends, value proposition and competitive dynamics. He has been featured on various media platforms and podcasts evangelizing the value of Data and AI to transform businesses. Author of Amazon best seller book on technology competition, "Outcompete: How startups and billion-dollar companies outsmart the competition.

Vinita Pinto-Zakher

Director

Vinita Pinto-Zakher

Director

Analytical & strategic leader with 20+ years progressive experience in analytics product development & management, technology/business intelligence development, data science, and administration. Vinita is currently working as the COO of Data & Analytics at Salesforce.

Raju Shreewastava

Director

Raju Shreewastava

Director

CEO ,Big Data Trunk Technical leader, broad experience, and proven track record with a focus on business process, architecture design, for real-time large scale systems, and analytics. Building SaaS-based data analytics products 21+ years of experience in design, development, maintenance, and enhancements of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Big Data solutions. Presented in several conferences http://go.qlik.com/Dreamforce.html https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/presenter/2015/raju-shreewastava-37898 https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Session/2017/machine-learning-intro-for-anyone-and-everyone http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/session/3666 https://hackerdojo.com/ai/ Author ( Contributed on Big data on Azure on Sams Publication book) https://www.amazon.com/Raju-R-Shreewastava/e/B07461QN4D/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Divya Ashok

Director

Divya Ashok

Director

Divya Ashok is a leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling global initiatives from the ground up. As Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Divya will lead the strategy around Salesforce’s India business and champion initiatives around India in San Francisco. Prior to her new role, Divya was in Product Management. Her teams led Salesforce’s efforts around scale, where she championed and delivered over 500+ unique product enhancements. She led product readiness for 50+ of Salesforce’s largest and most complex customers globally. Divya’s passion for the empowerment of women and children led her to co-create the Salesforce Women's Network. While she was Global President, membership increased by 350% to over 9,000 allies and expanded to 48 chapters globally. As for her accomplishments, Divya has been selected to join Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen global community 3 times to exchange ideas and perspectives with a select group of trailblazing women from across the world. She is a life member of the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin in Silicon Valley and also serves on the nonprofit's board

Tushar Kant

Director

Rashim Mogha

Director

Rashim Mogha

Director

With over 20 years of experience in leading and scaling multi hundred million USD global businesses at VMware, Amazon, Oracle, Automation Anywhere and Skillsoft, I am passionate about creating inclusive and innovative solutions that drive double-digit growth and social impact.

As the CEO at eWOW, I provide strategic direction for the eWOW initiative that empowers leaders around the world to discover, visualize, and actualize their success through connection, community, competency, and celebration.

Srilekha Akula

Advisor

Srilekha Akula

Advisor

Srilekha is a result oriented technology executive, advisor, investor, and board member. She formed and led high performing teams at startups, scale-ups, and multi-billion dollar industries solving complex customer problems. Srilekha forms high functioning teams to transform ideas to tangible business results. She inspires others to embed customer obsession and best-in-class workplace culture and values within their companies and teams. Srilekha is a thought leader on digital transformation and diversity. Mother of two daughters, she enjoys exploring new locations and terrains with her family. Srilekha is honored to be giving back to the communities and advocating for closing the digital divide. Srilekha is passionate about technology that broadens human possibilities.

Surbhi Paul

Advisor

Surbhi Paul

Surbhi Paul

Advisor

Surbhi is a driven technologist with 15+ years of experience in business and technology roles. She has been involved in engineering, product management, product marketing roles at large global companies with multi-billion dollar revenues and multi-stage startups scaling from pre-revenue to $1B+. Currently, as a product marketer, she is leading the GTM of the flagship product at Portworx (Pure Storage). Surbhi has led and helped with community-based projects such as Project Udaan (Art of Living organization - rescuing and uplifting children of sex traffickers in India), teaching Science to under-privileged elementary school kids (Science is Elementary organization). She is also a passionate educator - served as a lecturer in an engineering college in Delhi, India and as a Python programming teacher at The Harker School. Surbhi has earned her Bachelor degree in Computer Sc. Engineering from Punjab Technical University, India and Masters in Computer Sc. and Engineering from San Jose State University.

Laxmi Patil

Advisor

The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin

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