Shripati Acharya

Shripati is a natural entrepreneur and business executive. Shripati lead one of Cisco’s most successful switching product lines, was the Executive leader for the Cisco education initiative, and co-founded Snapfish, the world’s largest photo site acquired by Hewlett Packard. He was also a key member at Transarc which was acquired by IBM. Having spent substantial parts of working career in the United States and India addressing worldwide markets, Shripati brings a global management perspective. Shripati is an IIT engineer, Stanford computer scientist and Harvard MBA . His passion for Indian business was lit when he interned for Boston Consulting Group in India after business school, and has grown through investments in and mentoring of Indian online startups over the last decade.