Giovanni Marinaccio
India
Mr. Mohan Kumar is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Avataar Venture Partners. He serves as a Board Member at Perfint Healthcare & Heal software. He serves as Advisor at Pentathlon Ventures and ImaginXP. He also served as Senior Advisor at Norwest Venture Partners. He serves as a Board Member at Capillary Technologies. he brings in extensive operational, technology and investment experience, having worked at leading global organizations in various senior positions and personally investing in technology start-up companies. He is based in NVP India's Bengaluru office and serves as an advisor on investments in next-generation technologies, Healthcare and Education. He advised NVP's investments in Attune Technologies, Borqs, Capillary Technologies, CRMnext, Manthan Systems, NationWide Primary Healthcare Services, Ovum, Perfint Healthcare, and Zenoti. Prior to joining NVP India, he served as Corporate Vice President of Mobile Devices Software at Motorola where he was instrumental in creating mobile platform middleware, user interface technology and applications across 3GSM, CDMA and WiFi / WiMax mobile phones. He has also been an angel investor and is active in helping start-up companies in the areas of mobile solutions, content and applications, namely Allgo Systems, Azingo, Quantum, SpaceTime and Mistaken. Having worked in various vice president roles at Motorola, he played an integral role in setting up design centers in Asia and Europe. He was responsible for Software and Telecom products in the ASIAPAC region with annual revenues of more than US$2 billion. During his tenure there, he was responsible for the design centers achieving the highest quality level in software engineering (SEI Level 5), the first organization in the world to obtain this quality level. He also built strong relationships with VAS providers in ASIAPAC and helped them develop various premium paid services. He also successfully developed and launched mobile phone models for the European/ASIAN market. Prior to serving in multiple senior roles at Motorola, he worked with Texas Instruments as a technical architect on DSP Technologies and helped set up Texas Instruments' business unit in Bangalore. He holds a B.Tech degree in electronics & communication engineering from Institute of Technology, Benares, India. Later he took part in the Leadership/Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. He serves as Board Member at iProf. He also serves as Board Member at CRMnext.
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