Praneetha Manthravadi

Praneetha Manthravadi has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. In 2000, they began their career as a Design Verification Lead at Maple Optical Systems. In 2002, they joined Cisco as a Senior Engineer in the Optical Technologies group. Praneetha then moved to the Unified Access Business Unit and the Campus Networking group, where they served as a Product Line Manager. In 2013, they transitioned to Dell EMC as a Principal Product Manager. In 2017, they became the Head of Product Management at Panasas. In 2020, they began working as a Consultant and Startup Advisor while also becoming a Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2). Praneetha is currently an Investing Member of the FemTech II Fund and the Rising America Fund at Portfolia, a Principal Product Management Lead for HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform Security, and an SV2 Lead Partner at MedHaul and Braven.

Praneetha Manthravadi's education history includes an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where they studied Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship from 2008 to 2011. Praneetha also has a BTech from Osmania University in Electronics & Communication Eng and an MS from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Computer Engineering, VLSI Design. In 2016, they attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a course in Internet of Things: Roadmap to a Connected World. Praneetha Manthravadi has also completed numerous certifications from LinkedIn and Cloud Analytics Academy, including Securing Containers and Kubernetes Ecosystem, Kubernetes: Service Mesh with Istio, Kubernetes: Cloud Native Ecosystem, Microservices: Security, AI for everyone, Cloud Analytics Academy: Data Lake, Cloud Analytics Academy: Data-Driven Marketing, Cloud Analytics Architect, Cloud Analytics Master, Cloud Analytics Practitioner, Leadership in Tech, Becoming an AI-First Product Leader, and Cloud Analytics Academy: Executive Fast Track.