Praveen Mandal

Praveen is a veteran of 7 successful formative stage start-ups and a seasoned tech executive at 3 publicly traded companies. He is named co-inventor on 10 patents. As a founder, his 7 early stage startups have yielded 3 acquisitions, 2 unicorns (2 IPOs) and 0 failures. Companies he has founded: Pipal Systems (acquired by Riverstone Networks), ChargePoint, the Emerging Technologies Group at SGI, and 2predict. Praveen has held SVP of R&D or CTO positions at Riverstone Networks, Lucent Technologies, SGI and is currently CTO at Volta.