Sanjay Parthasarathy

Sanjay Parthasarathy
Education B.S. mechanical engineering, S.M. engineering, S.M. management
Alma mater MIT, MIT Sloan School of Management
Occupation CEO and Founder of Indix, former Microsoft executive
Home town Chennai, India

Sanjay Parthasarathy is a former Microsoft executive and technology expert. He is currently the CEO of Indix, a technology company that provides a comprehensive product intelligence platform and a product database which aims to help websites and apps become product-aware.[1]

Parthasarathy left Microsoft in 2009 when he was Corporate VP of the Startup Business Accelerator program, a division that he created.[2][3][4][5] Before that, he was Corporate VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism from 2000 to 2007.[6][7] He grew Microsoft’s developer business tools from $500 million to $1 billion, launched .NET, and has run microsoft.com and the Internet Security product unit.[8] He directed Bill Gates’ first trip to India in 1997 which led to significant investment from Microsoft in the country,[8][9] benefitting the growing software industry there.[3][10][11][12]

Other interests

Sanjay is a collector of Indian art. Some items from his collection will comprise a 2014 exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum.[13][14]

Parthasarathy is an investor in technology startups and he has invested in several early stage startups such as Buuteeq (acquired by Priceline.com), Skift, Flipsicle, GOQii, Gama, and DocSuggest.[8][15]

In 2014 Parthasarathy appeared on the ETNow show the Superangels as a judge, mentor and investor.[16][17]

Sanjay is a member of the Product Council of India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)[18][19][20]

Personal life

Parthasarathy was born in Chennai, India. In addition to his work in technology, Sanjay has also been an active cricket player. During his cricket career, Parthasarathy represented his school, state, zone, university and two teams in a first division league.[21] In an interview with GeekWire in 2015, he noted that cricket played an active role in developing his value for persistence in the tech industry.[21] He was awarded Junior School Cricketer of the Year award by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) in 1980. Sanjay has represented Tamil Nadu state and South Zone in under-19 cricket (1982) and under-15 cricket (1980). He captained the Anna University cricket team in 1985 and has represented Tamil Nadu in under-22 cricket.[3][22]

He currently lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife, Malini Balakrishnan, and two children Vivek and Ananya Parthasarathy.

Education

Parthasarathy has a master’s degree in engineering from MIT, a master's in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Anna University’s College of Engineering in Chennai.[3][23] He is on the Executive Board of the MIT Sloan School.[3][8][24]

Parthasarathy studied at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Egmore, Chennai.[25]

References

  1. ↑ Pankaj Mishra (January 14, 2014), Indix Is Building A Catalog Of Over 1 Billion Consumer Products To Help Brands Sell Better, TechCrunch, retrieved February 26, 2014
  2. ↑ John Cook (April 2, 2013). "Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers". Geekwire. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sanjay Parthasarathy". TiE Seattle. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ina Fried (June 12, 2009). "Longtime Microsoft executive leaving company". cnet. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Chris O'Brien (February 5, 2014). "Hailing the new chief". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sanjay Parthasarathy: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007". Microsoft. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ Romano, Benjamin (June 29, 2006). "Budding programmers swap ideas with Gates". The Seattle Times. Seattle, Washington. pp. E1.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Sanjay Parthasarathy: Startup Investor". INK Talks. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Srikumar Rao (April 17, 2000). "Bill Gates, Secretary of State". Forbes. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Schlender, Brent (18 August 1997). "MICROSOFT FIRST AMERICA, NOW THE WORLD BILL GATES BELIEVES HE CAN TAP INTO UNTOLD WEALTH IN OVERSEAS MARKETS. HERE'S HOW HIS PLAN WORKS.". Fortune Magazine. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Maritz becomes latest executive to leave Microsoft". Associated Press. September 14, 2000.
  12. ↑ Dudley, Brier (March 28, 2001). "Pinning down .NET strategy isn't easy - Windows engineering conference". The Seattle Times. Seattle, Washington. pp. C1.
  13. ↑ "Upcoming Exhibitions". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Arts Etc.". International Exaimer. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  15. ↑ Team VCC (July 30, 2012). "Rafat Ali's travel media company Skift gets $500K from Vishal Gondal, Sanjay Parthasarathy, others". VCCircle. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Starting Up - Super Angels - Exotel". ETNow.
  17. ↑ "Super Angels: In conversation with Sanjay Parthasarthy". The Economic Times. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Vision of $10B by 2020 from Software Products- NASSCOM announces Product Council". Nasscom. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Nasscom sets up product council to focus on start-ups". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  20. ↑ "Nasscom launches product council to counter iSpirt". The Times of India. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  21. 1 2 Cook, John, For the love of cricket: What the sport has taught Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other tech leaders, GeekWire, retrieved March 2, 2015
  22. ↑ "S Parthasarathy". Cricket Archive. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  23. ↑ Benjamin Romano (April 15, 2013), A Billion Prices and Counting: Big Data Ambition at Startup Indix, Xconomy, retrieved February 17, 2014
  24. ↑ "Sanjay Parthasarathy – an MIT whiz kid". NamastheNRI. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  25. ↑ "Well Schooled Legend". New Indian Express. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
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