Manish has more than 30 years of industry experience as a technology entrepreneur and has launched a number of highly successful enterprise products. At Picarro, he leads R&D and product development across hardware, software, data science and analytics. Prior to joining Picarro, Manish co-founded Session AI – and as its Chief Product Officer, Head of Data Science, and Chief Strategy Officer – he led the startup’s product and technology efforts to create a new category of real-time, AI-driven consumer marketing solutions compliant with data privacy laws. Prior to this, Manish spent 12 years in leadership roles at Sun Microsystems in engineering, market development, and sales with global responsibilities for North America, APAC, and EMEA. Earlier in his career, Manish built new algorithms as a researcher in the Computer Science Group at AT&T Bell Labs and subsequently taught numerical analysis at Stanford University. Manish holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.