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Satyaki Raghunath

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.

Ashish Deshmukh

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.

Sheena Shook

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.

Rajiv Nair

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 Goel

Advisor

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 Kalra

Advisor

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.

Ajai Chowdhry

Advisor

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 J. Rizza

Vice President, Product

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.

Tithi G. Tewari

Co-Founder

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.

Sambhav Verma

Senior Product Manager

Sambhav is a product leader and strategist with 11 years of experience. Seasoned in rolling various products such as digital asset management/CMS software on web and mobile platform for winning sustainable revenues and users. He has a learning experience in VR, e-commerce, SaaS, ad monetization, and machine learning applications. Carries entrepreneurial approach and strategic vision for delivering revenue winning products with the best UX for a demanding environment.

Gautam Tewari

Co-Founder

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.

Ajay Lavakare

Chief Product Officer

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 Chilakapaty

Advisor

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.

Chandan Singh

Head, Virtual Reality

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.

Veda Prakash Nidumolu

Head, Engineering

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.