Vinay has 16+ years of experience in business development, strategy, alliances, risk management, technology and product management. He heads IoT Business at Lenovo for APAC and prior to this worked as Director Strategy at Aeris a leading IoT player. He led IoT and Wi-Fi Business at Bharti Airtel, India and has worked as VP Technology at Goldman Sachs, in New York. 

Vinay holds an MBA from IIM-A and is the founder of the world’s 3rd largest IoT community IoT-NCR with 7500+ members. He is member of NASSCOM, DoT TEC and author on Your-Story, EFY, IoT Central among others. He is a TEDx speaker and also speaks on IoT, AI, FinTech and Youth Motivations at various conferences, academic institutions and corporates including Intel Dev Fest, IIM-A, IoT Expo, AICRA. He is recognized as global top 20 thought leader in analytics by Thinkers 360.