Gopal Hegde

About Gopal Hegde

Highly technical d and accomplished leader with a history of delivering executive-level direction and management to multiple startups, midsize, and very large companies, Stellar record of developing world-class products and increasing revenues to $100M+, while incubating new and scaling existing products. Demonstrated excellence in establishing new businesses in target markets and enabling global field organization to drive day-to-day interactions to identify prospects for long-term business opportunities. Credible history of leveraging workload/solution specific domain expertise to develop & deliver products/solutions to meet key customer requirements in line with business drivers, market trends, customer feedback, and operating metrics. Adroit leader translating vision into product roadmaps; build, scale, and lead large global product development teams. Adept at building global teams and structuring for success, successfully acquiring and integrating companies and teams, and developing strong broad partnerships and leveraging partners and customers to raise significant capital for business. Expert businessperson and negotiator, extensively presented to internal executives as well as at a variety of conferences, trade shows, and industry events.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations

   SiMa.ai

   Jun 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   SiMa.ai™ is all about scaling Physical AI! We are passionate about scaling Physical AI across robotics, automotive, industrial automation, aerospace & defense, smart vision, and healthcare. We are shipping the industry\'s best, purpose-built, software centric Physical AI HW/SW platform that is best in class in ease of use, performance, and power efficiency. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans and backed by a set of top investors committed to scaling Physical AI.

Education

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  ME, Computer Science and Engineering

  1988 — 1990

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  MSECE, Computer Engineering

  1991 — 1992

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  BE, Electronics and Communications

  1984 — 1988

Skills

• Storage Area Networks
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Tcl
• Strategy
• Virtualization
• Cpu Design
• Routers
• Networking
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Ecosystem Management
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Hardware
• Servers
• Routing
• Storage
• Unified Communications
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Soc
• Dell Computers
• High Availability
• Cloud Computing
• Embedded Software
• Asic
• Architectures
• Management
• Semiconductor Industry
• Distributed Systems
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Acceleration
• Wireless
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Engineering Management
• Linux
• Manufacturing