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Prakash Iyer
Investor
San Jose, California
Overview
Prakash Iyer is an accomplished executive and technologist based in San Jose, California, with a strong background in software architecture and strategy. He has held key leadership roles at Trimble Inc. and Everypath Inc., showcasing expertise in operational excellence, product management, and technology management.
Highlights of Prakash's career include serving as Managing Director at Trimble Ventures and Founder & SVP of Products at Everypath Inc., demonstrating a track record of success in driving innovation and growth within the technology sector.
Work Experience
Managing Director, Trimble Ventures & SVP SW platform architecture
2021 - 2022
Senior Vice President, Software Architecture & Strategy
2017 - 2021
Vice President, Software Architecture & Strategy
2011 - 2017
Reporting to the CEO of the company as point person on initiatives that are critical to Trimble’s software strategy. Providing leadership to software focused development activities. Coordinating cross divisional software platform projects. Advocating for software innovation within Trimble. Providing organizational focus for identifying and adopting best available software technology. Providing leadership for diverse projects that involve analysis and/or integration and the development of strategies for capturing key accounts.
Division Vice President, Software & Technology
2008 - 2011
Cross-sector Software and Technology leadership role across various Trimble vertical segments. Involved in formulating product and market stratgey for emerging markets. Responsible for technical due diligence for M&A and joint venture projects.
SVP Products
2006 - 2008
Manage global engineering organization including product management.(@Road acquired by Trimble)
Trimble develops positioning technology solutions for surveying, construction, agriculture, public safety and mapping purposes.
Raised $1,019,200,000.00 from Bank of America.
CTO, Founder & SVP Products
1999 - 2006
Everypath was founded on the vision to build a scalable mobile solution to address critical business problems for enterprises with large field teams in sales, field service or inventory management. As the Co-Founder and CTO, managed product development and several operational roles in the company, from early days of hands-on product development to being the Chief product evangelist. Managed diverse engineering groups spread across the globe; at the peak built and managed an engineering team of over 90 engineers in 3 countries.
CTO & SVP of engineering
1999 - 2006
Co-Founded the company and managed product and engineering organizations. Authored several patents and did pioneering work in mobile platform and application areas. Evangelized technology and presented at various technology forums.
Sr, Dev Manager/Sr. Architect
1996 - 1998
As a hands-on technical manager, engaged in leading a team of developers by providing technical leadership in architecting, designing and implementing the next generation DataWarehousing toolset for Prism. Lead Engineer and member of the architecture team in the Informix Database Tools team.
Senior Software Engineer
1995 - 1996
Major contribution to the Architecture and design of a 32-bit COM/OLE based OpenView (Network Management System) for NT.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
1992 - 1995
Technology leadership, architecture and product development. Managing engineering organization and help define technology strategies for the company.
Member, Techncial Staff
1992 - 1995
Technical Lead for the Integrated Design Team (IDT) that had overall responsibility for product design, technical direction and advanced technology tracking. Represented the company in the HL7 (ANSII) standards body and co-led the creation of HL7 ORB special interest group.
Technical Consultant/ Lead Software Engineer
1989 - 1992
Lead Engineer - High Speed Image and Statement Tools Projects Part of IBM's Image recgnition software team that developed he system for automated check clearing for banks Develoepd a WYSIWYG tool for creting customized statements for combined accounts.
Education
AMP
2014 - 2014
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