Amit Dayal

Current

• VP Engineering, Global Listings and Emerging Market Products at Yahoo!

Past

• Sr. Director, Community Platforms Group at Yahoo!
• Director, Mobile Platforms at Motorola
• VP Product Management at Confluent Software

• Co-Founder, VP Product Management at InterKeel Inc.
• Product Management Manager at Oracle
• Senior Software Engineer at Sequent Computer Systems

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

• Air Force School, Delhi

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Amit Dayal’s Summary

Managing large, global engineering and product teams. Led product function at multiple early-stage startups. Co-founded one of the pioneering Web services management companies. Managed products in diverse areas -- Web communities, internet platforms, mobile platforms, enterprise software platforms. In a past life, worked deep down in the dungeons of multi-processor Unix kernels.

Amit Dayal’s Specialties:

Entrepreneuring, product management, engineering management, leading large teams, raising venture capital, new product/category evangelism.

Amit Dayal’s Experience

• VP Engineering, Global Listings and Emerging Market Products

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  Manage engineering teams in Bangalore, Singapore, Miami and Brazil.

• Sr. Director, Community Platforms Group

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  Led a team that built a variety of platform services including Ratings&Reviews, Message Boards, Avatars, Blogs, and Alerts.

• Director, Mobile Platforms

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; mot; Wireless industry)

  April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Worked on strategizing and evangelizing Motorola's new mobile platform (linux/Java) to key US and European Operators.

• VP Product Management

  Confluent Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  Early employee that led the product management function. Confluent was acquired by Oblix which was then acquired by Oracle.

• Co-Founder, VP Product Management

  InterKeel Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  Co-founded interKeel, which pioneered Web services management.

• Product Management Manager

  Oracle

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; orcl; Computer Software industry)

  April 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  Managed a product management team responsible for Oracle's first EAI product now part of Oracle Application server 9i

• Senior Software Engineer

  Sequent Computer Systems

  (Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

  1989 — 1995 (6 years)

  Worked on the operating system for Sequuent's SMP servers mostly in the area of memory management and file systems

Amit Dayal’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  MBA , 1997 — 2000

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  MS , CS , 1987 — 1989

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  BE , Computer Science , 1983 — 1987

• Air Force School, Delhi

Additional Information

Amit Dayal’s Interests:

photography, tennis, squash, travel, bookworming, movies, gadgets

Amit Dayal’s Groups:

Haas

•    Haas/Berkeley Alumni
•    IIT Roorkee. Alumni
•    IIT Alumni
•    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
•    California Alumni Association - UC Berkeley
•    Sequent Alumni

Amit Dayal’s Honors:

Beta Sigma Gamma Honor society at Haas