Sameer Jagtap

Past

• Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Development at Surgient Inc.
• Product Management/Product Development at Surgient Networks
• Dir. of Product Management/Marketing at All.com

• Enterprise Systems Group at Dell
• Systems Management Architect at NCR Corporation

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Education

• University of South Carolina-Columbia
• University of Pune

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Industry

Computer Software

Sameer Jagtap’s Summary

With 17+ years of cross-disciplinary experience in the software industry, Sameer Jagtap started his career developing software for NCR and since then has held various leadership roles in product development, product management, product strategy, business development and corporate strategy. In 1999, he conceptualized and launched Dell’s Global Strategic initiative for remote systems management and support of computer systems, creating a new category in he industry for remote and automated resolution of software configuration problems. This later formed the foundation for Microsoft’s PC Health which is part of the Windows OS and led to the foundation of All.com, a venture backed spin-off backed by Dell Ventures and Accel partners, of which he was a founding team member. In 2002, he pioneered the concepts of Utility and Cloud Datacenter management and was a founding member of Surgient Inc and helped establish the company as a leading enterprise Virtual Datacenter software vendor in the Virtualization space. He conceptualized and defined Surgient’s core product and played an instrumental part in growing Surgient from an idea to an operationally profitable company with a global customer base. He has held various leadership roles at Surgient, most recently as Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development, where he was also responsible for establishing and managing Surgient’s Global Strategic alliances with HP, Dell, IBM, Vmware, Microsoft, BMC and Symantec and SI/VAR relationships with leading companies like Cap-Gemini and Wipro amongst others.

Sameer holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from USC, Columbia and earned a B.S Computer Engineering from University of Poona. He currently serves as an advisor to Doyenz Inc. and other early stage startups in stealth mode.

Sameer Jagtap’s Specialties:

Product Strategy and Product Management, Go-to-Market, Category Creation, Market Penetration and Strategic Marketing, Strategic Alliances and Business Development, OEM, VAR and SI Channel Development, Market Development and Product Launch, Corporate Strategy, Early/Seed Stage, Mergers and Acquisitions, Advisor on early/seed stage launch and planning, sales play books, M&A deligence, Technology Evaluation, Virtualization and Cloud computing, Social Media.

Sameer Jagtap’s Experience

• Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Development

  Surgient Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — July 2009 (8 years 5 months)

  Conceptualized, defined and managed Surgient's Enterprise Virtual Datacenter Management platform and solutions. Responsible for overall product strategy. Owned Surgient's strategic and business alliances with Vmware, HP, Dell, IBM, Symantec, Microsoft and VAR channel partners Wipro Technologies, Cap-Gemini and regional partners.

• Product Management/Product Development

  Surgient Networks

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Venture funded Surgient Networks raised $87M to develop the next generation of utility computing server platform that was a hardware + software play in Data Center Automation space. Sameer held leadership roles, heading the management software product development team as well as lead the company's product management function that helped the company transform from a IHV into a leading ISV in the virtualization space. Sameer was instrumental in conceptualizing and defining the new vision and product strategy that enabled Surgient networks emerge to be a leading vendor in the cloud computing and virtualization space, which included an acquisition of Pro-tier (a vendor in the virtualization space).

• Dir. of Product Management/Marketing

  All.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Funded by $67M from Dell Ventures ($10M) and Accel Partners ($52M), all.com was a joint venture spin-off from Dell and Motive. Sameer pioneered and helped create the industry category for electronic support at Dell and then expanded that reach into SMB space via All.com. Sameer joined all.com as a seed/founding team member from the Dell side and was responsible for defining the product, requirements and go to market plan while interacting with customers and partners and internal development and support teams. Business model required creation of an e-commerce enabled community of technical support personnel that could bid on and remotely fix computer/software problems for SMB via the internet using all.com's technology.

• Enterprise Systems Group

  Dell

  (Public Company; DELL; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1997 — January 2000 (2 years 8 months)

  Founded e-support team and managed product development across 5 Lines of Business
  Concept and thought leader for Dell’s e-support vision and strategy
  Managed relationship with Microsoft to define the PC-Health initiative which is now a core component of Windows
  Accomplished successful launch of the e-support program and products for Dell for over 6 million units/annum.
  Established and managed strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel, Motive, Watergate, Aveo, Ask Jeeves and others.

• Systems Management Architect

  NCR Corporation

  (Public Company; NCR; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1994 — June 1997 (3 years 4 months)

  Lead responsibilities for three internationally located technical teams in two countries
  Responsible for architecture and technical development of NCR's systems management software solutions
  Pioneered NCR's Windows based systems management solutions
  Designed and released award winning Systems Management Product for NCR’s Medium range computer systems division.

Sameer Jagtap’s Education

• University of South Carolina-Columbia

  MS , Computer Science, Engineering , 1992 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Engineering Honor society, Tau Beta Pi

• University of Pune

  BE , Computer Engineer/E&TC , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Sameer Jagtap’s Groups:

•    Virtualisation Management and Security
•    Austin Ventures Network
•    Cloud Networking

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