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<p>After 20+ years building and scaling teams and systems, my focus is now on <a href="https://forwardshare.co/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong>Forward Share Ventures</strong></a>, where we serve as the institutional co-founder for the Future of Work. We partner with deep domain experts to co-create AI-native ventures that enhance human potential and foster connection through human-centric, tech-forward solutions. Our culture is built on being #SCRIPTful – prioritizing Supportive mentorship, Constructive feedback, Respectful inclusivity, Inspiring innovation, Positive outlooks, and Trustful transparency. I thrive where high-stakes operational excellence meets people-first building, simplifying the path from a bold idea to a scalable reality.</p><p>P.S. Call me Vish or Rao — <i>I'm happy with either!</i></p><p>—</p><p>A strategic, transformational and impactful technologist, entrepreneur, and leader with 20+ years of hands-on technical leadership and engineering management experience across multiple domains at early to growth stage startups as well as large enterprises.</p><p>A mission-driven, customer-centric and results-oriented leader with extensive specializations in agile and lean product management and software development of innovative, large-scale mobile and web consumer experiences as well as platform solutions.</p><p>A passionate, compassionate and collaborative servant leader with excellent people skills and a proven ability to lead and influence product, engineering, design, insights teams as well as marketing, sales, customer success, finance, legal, people, and other business functions.</p><p>10x Technologist, Entrepreneur, Leader, Investor, Advisor at <a href="https://forwardshare.co" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Forward Share Ventures</a> • <a href="https://vestaequity.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vesta Equity</a> • <a href="https://www.justworks.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Justworks</a> • <a href="https://www.clearme.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CLEAR</a> • <a href="https://www.wework.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WeWork</a> • <a href="https://www.spotify.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a> • <a href="https://www.mediamath.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MediaMath</a> • <a href="https://www.make.me/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MakeMe</a> • <a href="https://generalassemb.ly/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">General Assembly</a> • <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a> • <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yahoo!</a> • <a href="https://www.proquest.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ProQuest</a> • <a href="https://www.hughes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hughes Network Systems</a> • and various other startups.</p><p>ACE in Management, Innovation &amp; Technology at <a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MIT Sloan School of Management</a> • BS in Computer Science, Minor in Astronomy, Pre-Med at <a href="https://www.umd.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Maryland, College Park</a>.</p><p><i>My life's script is to enhance the lives of my family, those around me, and myself through Supportive, Constructive, Respectful, Inspiring, Positive, and Trustful actions. #</i><a href="https://medium.com/my-script" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i>MySCRIPT</i></a></p><p><i>Keep it Simple, S*! Just Get *it Done!</i></p><p><i>#AlwaysBeLearning #AlwaysBeGrowing</i></p><p><i>#MakeItTogether #BetterTogether</i></p>

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