Shailesh Manjrekar is a business strategist, responsible for AI strategy and strategic alliances, for key vertical markets such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), genomics, finance, and high-performance computing (HPC). Shailesh has 25 years of industry experience working with silicon valley's early startups and building emerging businesses for companies like SwiftStack (now NVIDIA), Vexata, Sandisk (now Western Digital), EMC, NetApp, Brocade, Force10 Networks (now Dell), HPE, and Aarohi Communications (now Broadcom). Manjrekar holds an MBA from San Jose State, College of Business, Certification in Mastering Product Management from Haas School of Business, UC Berkley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.