Viraj Phanse

Inszoom.com Inc.

Viraj heads product management and strategy for Analytics and Marketplace at INSZoom.com Inc., a cloud/SaaS based technology platform automating the global immigration process. He is a member of Rutgers San Francisco Big Data Advisory Board at Rutgers University. Prior to this, he was responsible for global strategic alliances at Aerospike Inc., an NEA funded NoSQL database startup, where he closely worked with IBM, Amdocs, Nokia, Pivotal, Wipro and HCL, and for digital transformation initiatives, sales and business development at Persistent Systems Inc., a $450+ Million Norwest Venture and Intel Capital funded company that IPOed in India in 2010. As a Fellow at Berkeley Angel Network, he is currently responsible for the deal flow process and management, and is serving on startup screening and pitch event committee. This year, he will be joining more than 600 world leaders (including several heads of governments) from 70 countries at Horasis to devise novel ideas to sustain and nurture our development in the future. An expert in data analytics, digital transformation and cloud/SaaS, Viraj is a thought leader in product management, go-to-market strategy and business development for startups and enterprises. He has done his M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and is an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. In the past, his research got published in IEEE ICDM Workshop Proceedings, a leading data mining conference and was also recognized as one of the top case studies by Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize, an international peer-reviewed workshop highlighting successful real-world applications of data mining along with others by MITRE, Siemens Medical, VISA and others. In his free time, Viraj is helping aspiring product managers get into product management through his blog beerwithpm.com

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