Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Shankar Narayanan is a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He is currently an Advisor and a Member of Entrepreneur Selection committee at Indian Institute of Information Technology of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and National Institute of Information Technology (NIT).
Prior to founding Spime Inc, he founded Emuzed Inc, a
mobile multimedia leader. Emuzed, introduced the world's first mobile video recording technology, and licensed the technology to the world's top mobile OEMs such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and others. Shankar steered the company from founding to acquisition. Shankar headed Flextronicsâ's Handset software division as VP and GM.
Shankar has over 24 years of technology, sales, marketing, and engineering management experience in the technology industry. Shankar has successfully managed high-powered technology, Sales, and Marketing teams for many years. He understands the challenges in taking technology-intensive products to the OEMs and the consumers. He has extensive experience and knowledge in managing businesses in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Before co-founding Emuzed, he co-founded and headed Nexus Inc., USA. Prior to becoming a serial entrepreneur, Shankar worked as technical staff, sales and marketing executive, and management expert at various levels at British Physical Laboratories, Aurelec Systems, and Nexus computers.
Mr. Narayanan has graduated in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he has double Masters in Business Administration from Corllins University, USA and Masters in Administration from MK University, India. Youth Organization of India at Delhi awarded Shankar Narayanan with "Global Youth Leadership Award-2009", the award was presented by prominent Cabinet Ministers of the Government of India at the function held at the Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi. International NRI Congress has selected Shankar Narayanan as one of the few NRIs around the world to honor with ' Hind Ratan Award', the award ceremony was synchronized with the 2011 Indian Republic day eve celebrations on January 25th in New Delhi with prominent cabinet ministers attending the ceremony. Shankar currently lives in the Bay Area of California, USA. In May 2012 SPIME INC was acquired by Trimble, a world leader in Location Technologies. This is the 3rd successful venture founded by Shankar Narayanan acquired by the US multinational company.
