Sanjay Parthasarathy

Sanjay Parthasarathy
EducationB.S. mechanical engineering, S.M. engineering, S.M. management
Alma materMIT, MIT Sloan School of Management
Occupation(s)CEO and Founder of Indix, former Microsoft executive

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

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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

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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, Washington with his wife, Malini Balakrishnan, and two children.

Education

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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

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  1. ^ Pankaj Mishra (14 January 2014), Indix Is Building A Catalog Of Over 1 Billion Consumer Products To Help Brands Sell Better, TechCrunch, retrieved 26 February 2014
  2. ^ John Cook (2 April 2013). "Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers". Geekwire. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Sanjay Parthasarathy". TiE Seattle. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  4. ^ Ina Fried (12 June 2009). "Longtime Microsoft executive leaving company". cnet. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  5. ^ Chris O'Brien (5 February 2014). "Hailing the new chief". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Sanjay Parthasarathy: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007". Microsoft. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  7. ^ Romano, Benjamin (29 June 2006). "Budding programmers swap ideas with Gates". The Seattle Times. Seattle, Washington. pp. E1.
  8. ^ a b c d "Sanjay Parthasarathy: Startup Investor". INK Talks. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  9. ^ Srikumar Rao (17 April 2000). "Bill Gates, Secretary of State". Forbes. Retrieved 26 February 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 27 February 2014.
  11. ^ "Maritz becomes latest executive to leave Microsoft". Associated Press. 14 September 2000.
  12. ^ Dudley, Brier (28 March 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 6 July 2014.
  14. ^ "Arts Etc". International Exaimer. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  15. ^ Team VCC (30 July 2012). "Rafat Ali's travel media company Skift gets $500K from Vishal Gondal, Sanjay Parthasarathy, others". VCCircle. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  16. ^ "Starting Up - Super Angels - Exotel". ETNow.
  17. ^ "Super Angels: In conversation with Sanjay Parthasarthy". The Economic Times. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  18. ^ "Vision of $10B by 2020 from Software Products- NASSCOM announces Product Council". Nasscom. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  19. ^ "Nasscom sets up product council to focus on start-ups". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  20. ^ "Nasscom launches product council to counter iSpirt". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  21. ^ a b Cook, John, For the love of cricket: What the sport has taught Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other tech leaders, GeekWire, retrieved 2 March 2015
  22. ^ "S Parthasarathy". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  23. ^ Benjamin Romano (15 April 2013), A Billion Prices and Counting: Big Data Ambition at Startup Indix, Xconomy, retrieved 17 February 2014
  24. ^ "Sanjay Parthasarathy – an MIT whiz kid". NamastheNRI. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  25. ^ "Well Schooled Legend". New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
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