Advisory Board
Industry Advisors
Ajai Chowdhry
Advisor
Rajesh Kalra
AdvisorCustomer Advisory Group
Dhiraj Chilakapaty
Advisor
Vidit Goel
AdvisorPhysical catalogs and mockups; multiple customer iterations; last minute changes and requests - we have long endured these pain-points and still continue to. A virtual reality product like Trezi has helped us move towards being sustainable and in controlling costs which arise due to multiple and distributed stakeholder. We can now virtually decide what works and prevent real, cost-inducing errors
Praveen Rawal Managing Director, India, Singapore and SEA. Steelcase Bangalore, India
From my internal team to my customers, everyone totally believes that this is how designs have to be developed and reviewed. From pitches to design development, we have replaced all static visualization with Trezi. We now aim to extend Trezi’s application to vendors and suppliers we work with. Product selection will benefit immensely from Trezi.
Bhupendra Kumar Founder and CEO, Aeforia Architects New Delhi
We have been working with SmartVizX team on early access preview of Trezi to assess the product’s applicability beyond the design phase, in the construction process. The potential here is immense.
Asheesh Bajaj Project Manager, Hensel Phelps Austin
3D is a big part of my design thinking. While I find it easy to think in three dimensions, my customers do not necessarily have that ability. I do not blame them, they are not trained design minds. For long, I have been looking for a design product that can help me make my customers and suppliers walk and experience the design and environment I have generated. With Trezi I finally have what I have been looking for.
Sombat Ngamchalermsak Co-Founder Paperspace Asia Bangkok
I undertake projects the world over, from India to Europe, Africa and North America. I have been consistently looking for a common vocabulary to present my design thoughts to my clients from different parts of the world. After trying out multiple design visualization tools to help achieve this, I must say that Trezi is the product that is helping me finally get there.
Pranav Iyer Design Principal, Ground 11 Architects Pune
With Trezi, we no longer need to carry sheets and sheets of paper for a design review with our clients. All the sheets of paper do not ensure that clients fully understand the changes and the associated impact. Helping clients, engineering services consultants and building product manufacturers walk through and experience the proposed design in Trezi reduces many errors that typically creep later into construction.
Kulin Kapadia Founder, Alcove Design Consultants Mumbai
I am no longer explaining to my team what I want in a design. Before Trezi, I would ask my team members to build physical models to show what we wanted our customers to experience. But no more. Now, we build real-scale models for ourselves and our clients. And now, there are no errors in design when I say to the team ‘move the pergola further back and see how it feels’. We now experience it accurately, first-hand.
Prashant Kumar Founder, Studio One New Delhi
Virtual reality has become one of the most exciting new technologies. As a leading multinational office furniture manufacturer, we have been searching for virtual product simulation tools that allow customers to acquire deeper product information, reduce our mockup turnaround time and improve our marketing and sales efforts. With Trezi, we achieve all of that. Not only do our customers get to access our products and visualize them in the context of their proposed design, we are also able to provide product information in VR without the need of unnecessary physical mockups.
Chakrit Vorachacreyanan Senior Executive Vice President, International Sales Rockworth, Bangkok
Dr. Alok Gupta has 22+ years of experience in consulting, business development, and product & project management in Healthcare, Analytics, Banking & Financial Services domains. He has been instrumental in researching new business areas and defining vision, processes, road maps, and tactical execution plans for them. He has architected the FI Suite of products and led the Merchant Banking business. The product is used by more than 1 Mn merchants in the country. He has created enterprise-level analytics solutions involving big data, pattern recognition, and data mining.
Finding technology solutions for problems by envisioning and building sustainable products. Besides binge-watching, he also loves to pen short stories.
We can find Dr. Alok mentoring and channelizing development teams to take the product vision and make it a reality. He endeavors to coach people on product thinking and agile/scrum practices. His work experience and continuous interactions with people of different countries, cultures, and ethnicity provide the ability to work with diverse groups of people.
Advisor
Satyaki Raghunath is an Aviation Futurist, Strategist, Digital Innovation Expert, and Speaker, with Board and C-suite experience of over two decades with public and private operators of transport infrastructure, globally. He currently serves as the Chief Strategy & Development Officer at Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). He also serves on the Advisory Board of Future Travel Experience and on the ACI World IT Standing Committee.
Prior to joining BIAL, Satyaki served as the Chief Innovation Officer at GMR Airports, Head of Master Planning at Dubai Airports and as Managing Director – Asia at LeighFisher UK, a boutique transportation advisory practice.
Satyaki is an architect & an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley from where he completed his master’s in urban design. He is also currently an AMP candidate at Harvard Business School. With the Trezi team, Satyaki will be working on product development and fundraising to empower Trezi to reach new heights.
Advisor
Ashish has been an ardent evangelist of 3D digital technologies for more than two decades. Very early, as a founder of an industrial design firm, Ashish embarked on his journey with digital design tools to effectively translate creative product ideas into innovative products. His deep knowledge of the industry business challenges led him to work for Siemens USA as a product manager, creating the next generation of 3D digital design tools for automotive designers at General Motors, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, and others.
Ashish’s passion for digital technologies opened the next new chapter, where he transitioned from creating cutting-edge products to winning and nurturing customers. Ashish spent the past decade assisting large global enterprises in the US, Europe, India, and China, developing and implementing digitalization strategies that are speeding up decision-making with effective collaboration, improving operational efficiency through the communication of accurate design definition, and saving millions by avoiding rework and scrap. Ashish takes a keen interest in understanding customer’s digitalization journey, and he strongly believes that enterprises can gain efficiency and save cost by implementing the right combination of digital tools and processes.
Ashish has an undergraduate degree in Polymer Engineering from the University of Pune and a master’s degree in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Ashish continues to enrich his skillset and he is pursuing an MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Ashish is helping the Trezi team with the market development strategies to help Trezi grow and expand in the North America Market.
Advisor
Sheena Shook is the first member of our US customer advisory group.
With 15+ years of industry experience centered on BIM with firms such as HDR, Sheena is currently the Director of Business Development at Modulus Consulting.
Sheena’s passion for BIM was born in the fall of 2008 when she started at HDR as an intern and was put to work on a 6 story Patient Tower and CUP hospital addition project. Since then she has worked with nearly every BIM Standard in the Market and helped to create owner BIM standards, peer-reviewed BIM Standards, etc.
Sheena advises the TREZI team on product readiness for US customers and helps TREZI grow in the NA Market.
Advisor
Rajiv Nair is an alumnus of Lafayette College Pennsylvania from where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
For more than a decade, he led Microsoft Corporation India Pvt as the Managing Director & President. Rajiv was also the Vice President & Managing Director of Autodesk India Pvt. Ltd for 6 years.
Most recently, he led Mentor Graphics India Pvt Ltd as the Managing Director.
Rajiv Nair is helping the TREZI team as a sales advisor and helps in structuring the sales organization to make TREZI become the leading immersive design collaboration platform for the AEC industry.
Vidit joined the Gensler Bangalore office in 2018 after completing his internship in 2017. He is an enthusiastic architect who is realistic about his design approach with modernist ideas. He has been involved in space planning, design development, construction documentation and visualizations in various projects at Gensler. He aims to bring forward design that is founded on strong concepts and expressed intelligently to the viewers. Vidit seeks to realize efficient, relevant and unique designs in an organised manner.
Vidit currently works as a designer at Adrianse and brings the passion of a new-age architect to the Trezi advisory board, and advises the Trezi team on making the product future-proof and relevant for new-age architects and designers.
Rajesh is an alumnus of IIT Madras and a drop out of IIT Delhi where he was pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence before joining the founding team of RMSI. Throughout his long career, he has been transforming engineering design processes through smart automation & innovation. He was most recently the Managing Director of Atkins India and led many of their global digital innovation initiatives for the adoption of AI, RPA, AR/VR. Rajesh is currently Director and head of Khatib & Alami’s (a leading architectural, planning and engineering consulting firm) design center in India.
Rajesh brings AEC industry-specific knowledge to the Trezi team.
Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL (a pioneer that brought modern computing to India), began an exciting journey more than four decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world. Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has constantly been driving a vision of “IT for the masses” and has been on several Government committees working towards taking PC and broadband into every village in India. It was this vision that made HCL Infosystems the first company in India to create special products for the rural market place like a rural PC that works on a car battery or specially developed financial inclusion software and hardware products.
Mr. Chowdhry is helping the Trezi team with its enterprise sales strategy.
Darren is a digitally informed leader, leaning on 25+ years of business technology leadership in professional services. His career experience and education place him at the intersection of design thinking, business strategy and operations, digital and information technology, ready to accelerate business leaders and DevOps teams to capture their full potential. At SmartVizX, Darren leads the creation and development of our VR products. He is responsible for driving the product vertical and leading SmartVizX expansion into the US market.
Putting down technology and picking up his cook’s knife to further his skills as a self-taught cook focused on the cultures and recipes of Italy and India.
One can find Darren teaching the brightest minds in VR how buildings go from design ideas to built structures, learning and writing about the latest advances in design technology and virtual reality, attempting to become an agile scrum guru, and being a dad to a very happy and energetic 5-year-old son.
There is no Trezi without Tithi’s keen eye for aesthetics and detail. An accomplished architect from CEPT, Ahmedabad, she has played pivotal roles in business and creative design through her career. In her practice, she frequently encountered gaps in communicating the vision of a design and the limited means available to translate that vision onto paper/screen. A true entrepreneur, Tithi realized that this age-old problem of matching design intent to execution necessitated a solution that enabled clients to experience design in a different way. And thus, Trezi was born.
Design – night or day – it’s what keeps her going, while pondering over every tiny detail, aiming and achieving perfection.
Pouring over details with unstoppable energy and diligence ensuring 100% accuracy and efficiency, mostly while humming her favorite tune.
After his masters in construction management from the University of New South Wales, and experience as a Project Manager across Asia Pacific, Gautam returned to India, where workplace Design-Build was in a nascent stage of development. He pushed for its adoption and challenged existing ways of design visualization and collaboration in the AEC industry. Gautam also saw tremendous waste in product selection, and became convinced that the solution lay in the use of immersive technology. Gautam is committed to growing the role of this technology in building a better building industry ecosystem, and is convinced that Trezi will do the same.
All things Tolkien, relished while tuned in to classic rock. Cricket and marathons are his passions and VR was recently added to that list.
Spending hours working or reading, hunting for something new to do or develop, fueling his excitement to constantly innovate.
Varun has got 12 years of experience in engineering management, architecting and developing cloud-based highly scalable and available complex web-based products. He is a perfect amalgamation of both technical and management skills with a proven track record of project definition, execution, and support for web-based products. A hands-on engineer with working experience in all phases of a product, right from boot strapping to making it highly available, high scalable, multi-tenant application with a micro services architecture in a high paced agile environment. As Head of Engineering, he will take our vision further on how Trezi will evolve as leading immersive design collaboration platform for the building industry.
Reading books and online tutorials, Learning new technology, being hands-on with technology while leading execution and delivery of products. He enjoys talking to people and debating on various topics. Theater is his passion and had performed plays all over Bangalore. He also plays games like Squash or Badminton, listens to music and watch movies.
Varun designs and executes solutions with his Agile team. He always tries to learn new technology and look for ways to leverage that technology to create high-quality products. He’s always seeking an opportunity to master the “Build-Measure-Learn” Loop.
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The ‘product’ guy, Ajay is instilling the product culture at SmartVizX. A Civil Engineer by education, Ajay received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. He worked on collaboration problems that exist in the AEC industry at the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering at Stanford as well as at Kumagai Gumi in Tokyo, before founding RMSI, a leading Indian geospatial services provider. Ajay honed his product management expertise as the head of data solutions at Risk Management Solutions, California.
Dhiraj is an integral part of the core design team at Venkataramanan Associates. He has over ten years of experience leading large commercial real estate, corporate, hospitality and urban-scale developments. He fosters a keen ability to develop tailored design strategies that positively influence his clients’ business and work culture. Sound technical knowledge, coupled with a background in research has enabled him in spearheading the design and development of several benchmark projects like Nirlon Knowledge Park and BASF Green Leaves Project.
Dhiraj advises the Trezi team on making it more customer-centric for large design organisations.
Night or day, Chandan is the best person to answer any and every question about the field of virtual reality. His love for VR stems from hands-on experience with this phenomenal technology at an early age, and he demonstrates this with an obsession to get every aspect of the product right – be it UI/UX, art or technology. Chandan has a decade of experience setting up graphic pipelines and training and leading game developers to ship AAA PC, console and mobile titles.
Playing loads of video games, researching and reading about VR, visualization and games, and spreading diabetes.
Exploring the diverse cultures of the world through Dota 2, working on the next seemingly-impossible technical issue, finding out new places to order dessert from.
A problem solver at heart, Veda graduated from BITS Pilani with a Bachelors in Electronics and a Masters in Mathematics. He has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, available and performant systems, leading teams in UI, back-end, QA and Devops. Veda has worked extensively in startup environments, taking products from the bootstrapped phase to production, with extensive involvement in requirement elicitation, system design, engineering solutions and deployment.
Learning new technology, being hands-on with technology while leading execution and delivery of products. He enjoys a cup of coffee anytime. Cricket is his passion. He’s been getting immersed in VR of late.
Veda codes, listens to music, designs and executes solutions with his Agile team. He’s always seeking an opportunity to master the “Build-Measure-Learn” Loop.
