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Raja Bose

General Manager, Smart TV at Amazon

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Manager, Fire TV for Automotive and verticals beyond Smart TV

    2023 - Current

    Single Threaded Owner for building products and scaling up the Fire TV business for automotive and other verticals beyond Smart TVs, to deliver experiences our customers love and a P&L that we love.

  • Head of Product Management for Alexa Automotive

    2020 - 2023

    Led product management for entire Alexa Automotive product portfolio - Alexa Custom Assistant, Alexa Built-In, Connectivity, Customer discovery & acquisition initiatives, Fintech platform, and Analytics platform.

  • Angel Investor, Advisor

    2013

    Ancora (cross device enterprise platform), AuMBER (marketplace for mobile device farms), Bee (fintech wearables), Vibrado Technologies (athletics wearables).

  • Audio, Vision, Biometrics & Machine Learning for Digital Cockpit

    2018 - 2020

    Lead product definition, design and engineering of machine learning based digital cockpit experiences for L4 autonomous electric vehicles

  • Incubated and Led Automotive Biometrics Business

    2014 - 2018

    • Created the automotive biometrics product family and new revenue stream, formulated product roadmap & scalable tech strategy, and drove the first design wins in the industry with top-tier automotive OEMs in Europe and Asia (Daimler, Toyota). • Incubated new product concepts for Synaptics - AR/VR, Cross device interactions, Gaze tracking HUD. Hands-on engineering, early stage evangelism & bizdev. Featured in CES 2015 - 2017.

  • Developed Cortana Enabled Wearable IoT Fashion Accessory

    2012 - 2013

    Design and development of Cortana enabled wearable IoT product for women.

  • Invented MirrorLink (granddaddy of Android Auto & Apple CarPlay)

    2009 - 2012

    Invented the MirrorLink smartphone-automotive projection mode technology (precursor to Apple CarPlay & Android Auto). • MirrorLink seamlessly transforms smartphones into automotive application platforms and provides a safe and comfortable user experience through the In-Vehicle Infotainment system of the car while driving. • MirrorLink has now become the de-facto industry standard for platform agnostic smartphone-automotive interoperability and has been adopted by all major automotive manufacturers, Tier-I OEMs and mobile device manufacturers around the world. • Both Apple CarPlay and Google's Android Auto are derivatives of the key technology and UX fundamentals that MirrorLink introduced to the industry. • For more details about MirrorLink and its widespread industry adoption, please visit the Car Connectivity Consortium (http://www.mirrorlink.com).

  • Invented World's 1st IoT platform enabling Sensors & Actuators As A Service

    2006 - 2008

    • Co-founder of Pervasa Inc. which commercialized the Atlas Platform, the world's first SOA (service oriented architecture) based IoT platform. • Pioneered the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) and "Sensors & Actuators as a Service" where low-level hardware sensors and actuators are auto-magically converted into dynamically discoverable and programmable software services. • Responsible for overall software design and development of the Atlas Platform, which utilizes service oriented architecture (SOA) to allow automatic device self-integration. • Atlas Platform won the Best of Sensors Expo silver award in 2007.

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