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As CEO, Manju is responsible for overall operations overseeing everything from budgeting to strategy development for business growth at Smiota. Manju has over 25 years experience in Silicon Valley working at leading high-tech semiconductor companies such as AMD, Atmel, SST, Winbond, and ISSI. During his tenure at these companies, he has travelled to 47 countries for marketing and business development purposes. As head of the internet computing segment at SST he grew the business from $20M to $200M in 5 years. At Winbond, he was responsible for building a segment marketing team that grew the business from $6M to well over $350M in 7 years covering 25+ applications in computing, industrial, automotive, networking, communication and consumer segments. Manju served as VP of Marketing at ISSI before starting Smiota.

As CHO, Kailasnath overlooks the hardware architecture of products at Smiota. For over 20 years he has focused on developing and integrating cutting-edge firmware and hardware systems into Internet of Things products. Prior to Smiota, he was co-founder at Ayantra, Inc. and served as Vice President of Engineering. He has valuable experience in executing Machine 2 Machine technology into applications such as custom fleet tracking devices. He is also co-author of a patent.

As a CMO, Waheed is responsible for marketing and sales operations at Smiota. He is a team builder and a collaborative leader who has solved complex problems and created products that have delighted millions of consumers globally. He has held leadership roles at Silicon Image, Trident Microsystems and Sigma designs in Product Marketing, Business Development and Strategy. He is also experienced in running non-profit organizations.

Petros Dermetzis is executive vice president of development at Workday, responsible for the development of all Workday applications and technologies. Petros was one of Workday’s first employees, joining the company in 2005. Prior to Workday, Petros was a general manager and group vice president at PeopleSoft, where he was responsible for application development tools and technologies. Petros was at PeopleSoft for nine years, having joined the company after he founded and served as CEO at InfoSoft, an exclusive PeopleSoft distributor in southern Europe. Early in his career, Petros worked in the consulting and international field operations groups at Dun & Bradstreet Software, where he had global responsibility for presales, training, implementation and customer support. Petros holds a master’s degree in information management from Lancaster University and a bachelor’s degree in marketing engineering from Huddersfield University.

Anoop is a technologist and a business executive with a rich history in the evolving Internet of Things (IoT). He is driven by a passion for building connected software platforms, products and services that are elegant, simple and powerful.

Anoop specializes in Product Management, Strategy, Business and Eco System Development for Internet of Things (IoT). He plays an active role in product launches and technological direction, and is deeply engaged in advancing the IoT ecosystem. His IoT knowledge and expertise have been tested time and again in leadership and executive roles at small and large companies such as SmartThings, Samsung, Comcast and Cisco.

He was also a member of the board of directors for the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and helped the industry define and steer towards best in class IoT standards.

Anoop holds an MBA from University of California, Irvine and a Master’s of Science in Engineering from Arizona State University.

Khurram oversees all technology development and strategy at Smiota. Khurram is an engineer, architect and entrepreneur with close to 20 years experience in engineering and product management at leading enterprise software companies such as Workday, PeopleSoft and Oracle. He joined Workday when it was a small startup without products or customers and helped it grow to a $10Billion+ public company. During his tenure at Workday, he led several engineering teams and also served as senior technology architect responsible for overseeing technology strategy. Khurram has earned several innovation awards and also holds several technology patents.

Ramesh is the founder of 3 startups – two got acquired by technology leaders. The latest startup is now in a stealth mode.

The 2nd startup, Drastin, was acquired by Splunk (SPLK). Ramesh created the “Conversational Analytics” as a new product category, the product was recognized as the top 5 AI platforms by Gartner, and ranked as a “cool vendor” in search-driven data analytics – all in less than 24 months. The 1st startup, Cloud360 Hyperplatform, is now a part of Cognizant (CTSH). Ramesh created the “Cloud Management Platforms” as a new product category, and built a 25M yearly business in under 4 years and with continuous quarters of revenue growth. The product was ranked as a leader in the magic quadrant by Gartner as well as 451 Research.

Ramesh is a consistent achiever of rapid-growth SaaS solutions with continued profitability as a builder of enterprise-class products and companies serving Fortune 2000 enterprises.

Dr. Rolf Schlenther is a Senior advisor to Smiota, Inc. He brings his expertise and 25 years of experience in financial strategy, investments, negotiating and structuring business development, joint ventures and sales to grow Smiota solutions in the US, Gulf Cooperative Countries (GCC) and Europe.

He is a board member of the Interlink Private Office and executive director and a member of the executive management committee at The Interlink Group, a global private investment firm. He oversees all Europe/GCC and Latin America operations expanding the company’s regional footprint and formulating strategy. He manages key direct and co investment relationships with Interlink’s affiliate family offices, private investment offices, corporate investment arms and sovereign wealth funds globally. Dr. Schlenther has advised companies like BASF, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, E.ON, IBM, KPMG, Novartis, Oracle, SAP, Siemens, Toshiba and WPP.

Prior to joining Interlink, Dr. Schlenther was Senior Partner at Bridge-n AG, a merger & acquisitions advisory firm headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Dr. Schlenther holds a doctorate degree in Economics as well as a diploma in Political Science. He is active with the Larta Institute, the German American Business Association (GABA), the National Geographic Society, and the Rotary Organization.

Warren Porter brings more than 18 years of student housing experience to his advisory role.  He started his student housing career working as an Assistant Area Coordinator for Texas Tech University and returned to his alma mater as an Area Coordinator for the University of New Mexico.

Warren then ventured into the privatize student housing industry working for Century Development, American Campus Communities, and other private developers.  Warren has held various positions of responsibility from General Manager, Operations Specialist, Area Manager, and Regional Manager.  He is now the Director of Housing On Campus for AVS at UNLV.