Puneet Pandit is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Glassbeam, and serves on its Board of Directors.

Puneet has over 25 years of global experience as a management consultant and as an operational executive building, scaling, and managing businesses with leading edge technologies ranging from Industrial IoT analytics in the healthcare market to data center-based storage networking vertical.

Puneet co-founded Glassbeam with the core premise that machine logs will become the foundation for smart product companies to reinvent themselves in the world of connected machines and IoT analytics. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, driving business execution excellence, and building a world class team to meet and exceed the high expectations of Glassbeam’s customers.

Puneet started his career at Tata Unisys as an IT management consultant and then moved to management consulting with Ernst & Young as part of their strategic advisory services. Prior to founding Glassbeam, he was Senior Director of the Database and Business Applications Solutions Group at Network Appliance, focused on capturing the $500 Million Oracle-on-NetApp market with cross-functional initiatives across joint R&D, sales, services, and marketing programs.

In his spare time, Puneet is an outdoor buff and loves hiking the trails around bay area, backpacking in Yosemite, and doing his early morning runs. He loves reading and devours anything related to Eastern Philosophy and Buddhism.

Puneet earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University.

Ashok Agarwal is Glassbeam’s Vice President of Engineering.

Ashok has 30 years of technology executive experience and strong credentials as a Cloud-based technologist and an Open Source evangelist with deep experience in delivering large scale enterprise solutions. Ashok is proficient in Big Data analytics, social media engineering, search algorithms, and databases in an Agile development environment.

Ashok leads Glassbeam’s engineering team. He oversees the team’s mandate to deliver Machine Data analytics solutions, including predictive analytics for medical devices using Machine Learning technology. He is responsible for Glassbeam’s SaaS platform architecture, technology, and service operations as well as technical liaisons with Glassbeam’s customers and partners for technology integration initiatives.

Earlier in his career, Ashok has held various technical management positions with startups including Chief Technology Officer at Livedeal, Vice President of Engineering at Medialive/Earthlink, and Vice President of Professional Services at Silverline Technologies. Ashok began his career with Tata Consultancy Services where he reached technical leadership positions.

Outside work, Ashok is passionate about promoting the Indo-American community in the mainstream. He holds leadership positions with organizations and forums voicing the commercial and professional interests of the community and showcasing Indian values and culture through community service and charity initiatives. He also likes to travel.

Ashok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Jerry has over 25 years experience as a hands-on CFO and executive at numerous hi-tech, financial and manufacturing companies.  His domain experience includes SaaS, RaaS, 2-sided marketplaces, geospatial analytics, security, storage, semiconductor, automotive, distribution and IT services.  He is a former partner at the Hiller Group, focused on turnarounds and corporate restructurings; CFO at Clean Filtration Technologies, a clean-tech company sold to The Dow Chemical Corporation; VP, Finance and recruiting partner at Essential Solutions, an executive recruiting firm focused on VC-backed technology startups; and CFO and EVP of Marketing, Engineering, and Operations for Fyre Storm, Inc., a digital power management ASIC developer. In addition, he has been a consulting CFO at several Tier 1 VC backed companies including Panzura, Tula Technology, Enview, Luna Care, Capture2, BolsterAi, Waymark, Exalt Communications and others.  Jerry has a BA in Physics from Rice University.

Robert brings over 30 years of enterprise sales experience to Glassbeam where he will serve as Sr. Vice President of Sales and Business Development. From executing direct sales campaigns at ROLM and Siemens to global leadership roles at NetApp, Data Domain (acquired by EMC) and Nutanix, Robert has built and delivered customer excellence at a global enterprise level. Most recently, Robert has served as Vice President of Sales at cloud based tech start ups Tintri and Minio. 

A California native, Robert is based out of Palo Alto where he proudly gives back to his community supporting his wife’s non-profit Magical Bridge Foundation.

Robert holds a Bachelor in Science degree in Business Administration, Marketing from San Diego State University.

Pramod Sridharamurthy is Vice President of Products and India Operations at Glassbeam.

Pramod has over 18 years of leadership experience focused around people, process, and products in startups and growth stage companies in the big data analytics, connected machines, and storage systems space. A startup guy at heart, he enjoys solving problems at scale and is passionate about connected machines and the opportunities it holds for Glassbeam’s customers and their communities.

Pramod oversees Glassbeam’s India operations and products. As the head of India operations, he is chartered to build and scale a high performance team and to help the organization and teams achieve their maximum potential. As the head of products, he is conceiving, driving, and shaping the future of how Glassbeam’s customers maximize the value of data from connected machines. He also provides leadership and coordination in developing relationships with partners and customers in India.

Most recently, Pramod led the Consulting and Practices group at Orchesys where he successfully built the storage practice delivery business and helped transform the data center infrastructures of large enterprise customers. He has also played instrumental roles at Apara and Wipro across multiple areas like Consulting, Practice development, Pre-sales, and Performance Engineering.

Beyond work, Pramod is passionately driving a large-scale project, through India Literacy Project, a non-profit, to make quality education accessible to public schools in India through the use of technology, experiential learning, community involvement, and by elevating instructional excellence.

Pramod holds a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Technology from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore.

Vivek Sundaram is Glassbeam’s VP of Technical Services.

Vivek has over 10 years of experience leading teams in building cloud-based analytics platform and solutions for Industrial IoT products. From simple thermostats to complex MRI machines, Vivek commands the industrial knowledge to tailor a comprehensive solution that meets the needs of Glassbeam’s customers and partners.

Vivek is responsible for working with all Glassbeam customers to understand their business needs, and develop all aspects of the design and delivery of end-to-end solutions. He leads the technical presales and solution engineering teams to ensure the delivery aligns with the customer’s expectations. He is also leading the charge on Glassbeam’s solution roadmap for the Healthcare provider market.

Prior to Glassbeam, under Vivek’s leadership as the Research and Development head at Pacific Control Systems, Dubai, he designed and deployed real-time fire, life, and safety monitoring systems using state-of-the art M2M and smart system solutions covering the entire Dubai city.

During his spare time, Vivek tries to satisfy his voracious appetite for art and adventure. He is training to be a pilot spurred by his ambition to become a flight instructor. While on the ground, he is a patron of the local artists and plays in the billiards national league (amateur). He is also an avid indoor rock climber with his sights set on a dream to scale a real mountain someday.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from Anna University, India.

Mohammed Guller is the Head of Machine Learning at Glassbeam.

Mohammed has over 24 years of experience working in the hi-tech industry in a variety of technical and management roles. His areas of expertise include machine learning, big data, and new product development. He is passionate about applying machine learning to solve business problems and create value for our customers.

Mohammed leads Glassbeam’s data science and machine learning teams. He is responsible for identifying new ML applications and driving the development of those applications. Mohammed is also a published author and a frequently-invited speaker. His book, Big Data analytics with Spark, was among the top 25 selling books on Amazon for a few months after publication. He gets invited to give talks and conduct workshops on Spark and big data technologies at different conferences and universities.

Prior to joining Glassbeam, Mohammed held leadership and management roles at different startups, including TrustRecs, of which he was the founder, and Elron Software, where he rose from an engineer to Director of Engineering. Mohammed also has business leadership experience managing key SMB accounts in the San Francisco Bay area for IBM.

Outside work, Mohammed enjoys spending time with his kids and learning new technologies. He loves traveling, skiing, ice-skating, and chess.

Mohammed earned an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also has Master’s degree in Computers from Gujarat University and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Mumbai.  He ranked #1 in his college and #3 in the University of Mumbai amongst 8,397 students from different colleges.