Two decades of multidimensional experience, in-depth industry knowledge, exhaustive global exposure, and exceptional organisational understanding. Focused on leveraging cutting-edge technologies including big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, blockchain and IoT in agriculture, education, healthcare, governance, e-commerce and platforms/ecosystems domains. Technopreneur with extensive expertise in business planning and development, technology and innovation, investments and venture capital, strategy and analysis, start-ups and mentoring, growth hacking and product management, technology roadmaps and business models, and advisory and consulting services. Author of seven books on technology and business. Regular speaker at events including AP AgriTech - Visakhapatnam, ASEAN Marketing Forum – Jakarta, Sustainable Food Systems – Bangkok, Better Rice Initiative – Viet Nam, NGTech - Salt Lake City, ITFINANCE AFRICA – Kenya and ITU Americas - Brazil to name a few. Expertise: user experience and adaptive designs, big data and predictive analytics, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, wireless and internet of things, mobile and web applications, satcom and telecom, and social media and cloud computing.