Board of directors

Partha Datta Ray, CEO & Founding CTO

Partha is the CEO as well as Principal Investigator (PI) of multiple NSF awarded AI/ML research projects at Albeado, a venture funded Technology start-up based in Santa Clara, California. Albeado’s proprietary AI/ML framework PRISM™ (Predictive Risk Identification and Systemic Mitigation) delivers “data driven yet explainable” analysis and predictions for complex interconnected systems. He founded Albeado to build AI/ML systems which lets planners, operators, designers and support engineers to determine from observed data what a large complex system – like an 5G/LTE mobile network, an electric power grid or even evolution of cancer in the human body – is doing at any given moment of time. And even more importantly, what it will do in the future. While pursuing a PhD. in Applied Artificial Intelligence targeting very large silicon (VLSI) design automation, he joined AT&T Bell Labs where he worked on early neural network R&D and built AI systems for determining operational state of complex networks and predicting performance of communication systems. In the past, he has directed multiple industrial labs and business units in areas of EDA Software as well as ASIC design. Some of his prior startups 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

Gopa is the Chief Operating Office of Mobiveil Inc., San Jose and brings more than 32 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. 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.

Vishal Chhibbar, Chief Financial Officer, Brillio

With 33 years of experience with blue chip companies in the areas of M&A, business & financial planning, strategy formulation and evaluation, joint venture management, SEC financial accounting & reporting, procurement, treasury & risk management in diverse markets and economic cycles, Vishal currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Brillio and leads their finance, legal, admin, facilities and infrastructure, and M&A functions. Before Brillio, Vishal served as President and Chief Financial Officer of EPIQ Global services where he led the Finance team managing the P/E investment and driving transformations to deliver margin expansion. Vishal also served as the EVP and CFO of EXL (Nasdaq: EXLS) where under his leadership, EXL made 9 strategic acquisitions for a total value of $570 million which contribute around ~35% of targeted annual growth and are key contributors to growth strategy accompanied by market cap increased from 300 million to $2.4 billion before he left EXL in 2019. EXL was recognized as one of “The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America” for the year 2014, 2015 and 2017 by Forbes. Vishal is also the Winner of 2016 CFO awards by “Finance Monthly Magazine”. Vishal is a Chartered Accountant and an Associate Member of Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) Australia and Six Sigma Black Belt Certified.