Board of directors

Partha Datta Ray, CEO & Founding CTO

Partha is the CEO of Albeado, an AI Tech start-up based in Santa Clara, California. Albeado conducts R&D and builds Causal AI powered decision intelligence products which deliver automated root cause analysis and reliably accurate predictions to accelerate ROI of existing or new enterprise apps. Backed by R&D grants from NSF, strategic VC investment and strong customer revenue, Partha founded Albeado more than a decade back. While pursuing a PhD. in neuromorphic circuits and Applied AI targeting VLSI design automation, he joined AT&T Bell Labs where he worked on early neural network R&D and built AI systems for predicting operational faults of complex systems and networks and predicting performance of telco systems. In the past, he has directed multiple industrial labs and businesses in areas of Design Automation (EDA) Software as well as ASIC design. Some of his prior ventures were acquired by Mentor Graphics, Agere (now Intel), L&T InfoTech and Telerate (now Dow Jones). He has eight granted and pending patents and multiple peer reviewed publications.

Gopa K. Periyadan, COO Mobiveil, Inc. a GlobalLogic company, Hitachi Group

Gopa is the Chief Operating Office of Mobiveil Inc., Santa Clara, a fully owned subsidiary of GlobalLotic company, Hitachi Group and brings more than 38 years of senior-level management, engineering, sales and marketing experience in multiple sectors of the electronics industry including Product Development, IP Licensing as well as Engineering Services space. He also serves in the Board of Haystack Robotics, a maker of AI powered autonomous mobile UV-C disinfection, delivery, and cleaning robots for the global markets, a smart, safe, and simple technology for hospitals and senior homes. Prior to Mobiveil, he was the Vice President of Business development for Product Engineering Services Business Unit, heading its North America business at L&T Infotech Ltd, a $1 Billion+ run rate Information Technologies & Product Engineering Services company inside $15 Billion+ L&T Group of companies. Until its acquisition by L&T Infotech in 2006, Gopa was Board Member, Co-founder and Vice President & General Manager of System & Software Business Unit at GDA Technologies Inc., the pioneering company in Product Engineering Services & IP Licensing industry. Prior to GDA, Gopa was the group manager responsible for System Engineering, Technical Marketing, Application Engineering at OPTi, the fastest growing PC chipset provider at that time. He also spent four years with VeriFone, the leader in Transaction Automation, working on key engineering functions on the I/O subsystems of Gemstone series of Electronic Cash Registers. Gopa holds a BSEE and an MBA from Duke University, North Carolina.

Ranjan Kalia, Chief Financial Officer, Brillio

Ranjan is a CFO at Brillio and brings with him IT Services industry and financial leadership experience. He has over two decades of experience leading complex financial operations at multinational companies with a proven track record of achieving targeted metrics and delivering strong results & shareholder value. His notable prior experience includes playing a key role at Virtusa where he was the EVP and CFO in the company’s growth from approximately $100 million to over $1.2 billion in revenue by providing leadership to Virtusa’s s global finance team, as well as advising the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on development of business strategies, capitalization strategies, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnership identification, and long-term financial planning. He also served as a Board of Director and Audit Committee Member for Polaris Consulting Services from 2016 to 2018.