Advisors

Our Advisors

Pramod Dsouza

Pramod Dsouza is a Management Consultant and a Certified Independent Director, having 24+ years of Industry experience in the fields of Technology, Product Development, Startup Funding, and Corporate Strategy.

He co-founded Eagle10 Ventures in 2017 helping technology startups to raise funds from angel investors and corporate executives. On the technology front, he has worked for multinational companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Citrix, and LogMeIn, both in India and in the United States.

He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from MIT, Manipal, and a Master's Degree from NITK, Surathkal. He also has an MBA (executive General Management Programme) from IIM, Bangalore.


Girish Chandrashekar

Girish Chandrashekar is a seasoned Storage Architect specializing in disruptive technologies with 24 years of experience in software development, architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native solutions, edge computing, data management, and data services.

Currently focusing on data services and hyper scalar-based solutions, Girish has a proven track record of delivering successful products and managing globally distributed teams using Agile methodologies.

His area of expertise is Storage technologies. Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and microservices. Edge computing solutions, including hybrid cloud and on-premises machine learning applications, exploratory projects in blockchain, data engineering for machine learning, AI technologies CNN, LLM, and Gen AI.

He holds an MTech. In Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University Visweswaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore.


Ravi Prakash Reddy

Ravi Prakash Reddy is a Product Management leader with proven skills in market research, competitive analysis, customer study, portfolio strategy, product planning, and product innovation. He has managed multi-million-dollar enterprise product lines in storage, data protection, and datacentre automation domains. He has mentored start-ups in different domains and is an active investor in early-stage technology start-ups.

His expertise is in assessing market opportunity, developing business case, charting product roadmap, developing product requirements, designing UX wireframes, and driving go-to-market activities, working with global customers and partners, leading a team of product owners, and mentoring new talent.

He is certified in Agile methodology, actively involved in implementing scrum model for large scale projects. He led a team of market analysts and out-sourced partner team to develop proprietary market models to assess market opportunity for backup product portfolio.

He also guided portfolio strategy by identifying addressable market opportunities and adjacent market opportunities for product portfolio generating more than 1 billion USD revenue per year. He conducted primary and secondary market research to provide insights on key market drivers, emerging consumer needs, and changing competitive landscape.

He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and is a Masters in Technology from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.