Kaushik Pillalamarri

Kaushik Pillalamarri is an accomplished innovation, technology, and strategy executive with leadership roles across startup and growth settings in USA, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has served as Co-founder & CEO at an American tech startup Smartiply, and CEO at a Southern African consumer packaged goods and agribusiness corporation Universal Industries. As an Advisor to Wistron Corporation, which acquired Smartiply, he drives the forefront of emerging technologies. His career includes building new businesses from ground up at Verizon in the USA and Reliance Communications in India, where he positioned the companies for increased market advantage. He has been granted several patents for his business process and technology innovation. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University; MS and BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Kansas State University; and Advanced Executive Management Certifications from MIT, Harvard, Wharton, Cornell and Kellogg in Transformational Technologies, Creating New Businesses and Growth Engines, and Strategic Thinking.