Silicon Valley Technology Veteran, Bala Joshi Joins AI-Startup Hotify as Advisor & Business Development Head for North America By CIOReview Team

Silicon Valley Technology Veteran, Bala Joshi Joins AI-Startup Hotify as Advisor & Business Development Head for North America

CIOReview Team | Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 13:03 IST

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Bangalore-based AI Startup Hotify AI appoints Silicon Valley veteran Bala K Joshi as its Advisor & Business Development Head for North America, which will help the company to further scale up its business in the newly launched US Market. This is Hotify’s third major addition to its Advisory board this year (V.R Satish, CTO, Pavilion Data Systems and Dr. Naresh Sharma, CEO, NASHERO).

Currently, the Chairman & CEO of Bala Joshi Group, Bala brings with him over 20 years of rich experience, which adds huge credit to Hotify. Bala was the Director of Engineering at Intel Corporation for over a decade, before which he was the Vice President of the Japanese ICT giants, Fujitsu for 10 years.

Welcoming Bala to the Hotify global family, Ankur Dinesh Garg, Founder & CEO, Hotify AI, says, “Bala’s addition to Hotify is a great success for us and validation of our viability. Technology veterans like Bala, bring significant trust from enterprises and give us great exposure in markets like the US, This is just a start for us, we have many more exciting milestones to come in future with regards to our foray in North America.”

Founded in 2015, Hotify is a cognitive intelligence platform, accelerating enablement of enterprise AI solutions. Holding a seasoned leadership team with hands-on experience across a wide range of AI domains and deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence, the company is presently working with leading enterprises in various fields including banking, financial services, manufacturing and consumer packaged goods companies namely KriyaTec, DDB Mudra Group, RAP Ventures and more. Also, it provides an out-of the box ready to use AI backend, designed to accelerate development of intelligent systems and increase AI adoption. To the global economy, the contribution of AI is estimated to be over $15+ Trillion by 2030 along with a fourteen point five per cent GDP boost to North America. Thus to tap into this opportunity in the US market, Hotify set up its operations in Silicon Valley starting from January 2018.

“I was impressed with the talent and vision of the Hotify team. I am excited for the opportunity to be an advisor to the company as well as part of the Hotify team to help grow the business in the North America region. As one of the first steps in this journey I have agreed to start and chair an AI council in Silicon Valley that connects Enterprises and Startups helping build an AI ecosystem to solve real-world AI problems,” says Bala.

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