Shailesh Manjrekar is Product Manager for Big Data, Enterprise Apps. and Healthcare at EMC’s Core Technology Division. Shailesh currently has the charter to build the Big Data strategy, eco-system and GTM, by working across EMC Federation and External partners. In this role Shailesh drives CTD product planning across the portfolio. His charter also includes EMC’s Healthcare business. He is responsible for Healthcare Product planning, Eco-system and GTM. A veteran of NetApp, Force 10 Networks, Brocade, Adaptec, HP, Shailesh's unique product management experience helps him to crisply identify the right target market and the gaps in the market. His engineering experience helps him to pragmatically understand what it takes to build these products, his product marketing experience helps him to position the product with the right messaging and value proposition. His solution marketing experience helps him to form the right strategic alliances and provide an end-to-end solution and his presales experience helps to identify what it takes to sale the product, bringing to bear over 20 years of experience in high tech.

Director Product Management, Emerging Storage Solutions, Big Data and Enterprise Applications @ Software Defined Big Data Flash - Infiniflash. Data center and Hyperscale Markets From August 2015 to Present (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaConsultant Product Manager, Big Data Analytics and Enterprise Applications, EMC @  Strategy, Bplan, Roadmap : Responsible for Strategy and Business plan to penetrate Big Data Market – Use Cases Data Lake, ETL offload, Distributed FileSystems HDFS, OneFS, HDFS connector, Big Data active archive  Market sensing, Customer Council : Working closely with sales for customer, partners, analyst, field for trends  Product Planning and Execution : Cradle to Launch – Business Data Lake Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Integrated Data Protection product line. DD Boost for Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA, DB2, SQL, PRD, Releases. Opensource strategy for Openstack Sahara, VMware Big Data Extension, CloudFoundry and Boost integration  GTM (messaging, pricing, sales enablement) and Eco-system : Partner Eco-System with Cloudera, MapR, MongoDB, MarkLogic. Formulated Enterprise Application Partner Eco-system strategy for Tier1 OEM partners including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Netezza, Teradata, Pivotal, Symantec, to penetrate Big Data, Enterprise Data Warehousing and RDBMS, Healthcare and Cloud Markets, with Converged portfolio. Working closely with sales for “beach head wins” From December 2011 to August 2015 (3 years 9 months) Santa ClaraSr. Product Manager, Clustered ONTAP Software Product Management @  Strategy, Bplan, Roadmap : Responsible for Cluster mode always on initiative for Scale-out storage in ITaaS markets. Conducted GAP analysis and developed Roadmap targeted for specific release. Business case for N-way HA, Application awareness, Cloud2/Web2.0/Big Data markets for applications like Hadoop, No-SQL, Columnar DB’s.  Product Planning and Execution : Drove requirements into OnTap C-Mode 8.2 release  Market sensing, Customer Council : Market Analysis, Customer, Competitive Analysis, Market Sensing and Segmentation, use cases for Application SLO management (High Availability, performance, capacity, tiering etc.).  GTM (messaging, sales enablement) Established portfolio success metrics and work with analytics to report progress. Driving portfolio with strategy, prioritization, whole solution, cross functionally and doing sales enablement From September 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 4 months) SunnyvaleDirector Product Line Management @ Multi-dimensional Responsibility for Data center Market, Region, product (10GbE TOR), Data center product-line with Convergence (TRILL/FCOE), IAAS Solution, Virtualization(EVB/VEB) and Network Automation, which was a $20M business  Strategy, Bplan, Roadmap : Responsible for product family business plan, for all Top of Rack S Series portfolio, including 1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE, FCOE. Business case for S7000 FCOE TOR, rationalized pricing for all portfolio, including automation software, competitive analysis with Cisco1000v,Arista vEOS datacenter products  Product Planning and Execution ; Launched 1st automation ready 1G S60, 10GbE S4810 TOR switch for Web2.0 and Big Data Markets From February 2010 to 2010 (less than a year) Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing and Product Management @ * Released 1st Max Cache Storage Accelerator product line based on SSD's, targeted at Data center Markets, * Responsible for Cloud Storage Business case, Growth Strategies through M&A, Identifying New Markets and use cases, * Make/Buy/Partner ROI Analysis, Business case, Strategic Marketing for multiple product lines, * Business dev, C-Level team From July 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 6 months) Product Manager @ * Responsible for 3 product lines in high tech and emerging fabric applications market segment * Responsible for presenting business plans and phase reviews to execs with gap analysis and recommendations for existing and new business * Trusted advisor for Sales force to drive products in Direct and OEM markets * SME speaker in Sales Kickoffs, EBC's, sales conferences responsible for evangelizing the target market and product * Technologist to take disruptive technologies to the market and work closely with engg. to build a product to solve business pain points. From July 2004 to June 2008 (4 years) Senior Staff Engineer @ Lead Engg, Partner and Customer management Product Planning and Execution: Aarohi hired me as the 8th employee of this dynamic startup. Aarohi was a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing solution stacks in the fabric application space by working with OEM’s like McData and ISV’s like Incipient and StoreAge. This was a dynamic work environment and had the freedom to “pickup the ball and run” in various areas. Aarohi was acquired by Emulex Corporation.  Developed Architectural and functional requirements, use cases, solution configuration of transport stacks based on iscsi and FC, virtualization blade, with an understanding of overall product architecture and system configurations. GTM sales enablement and Eco-system : Successfully lead ISV and OEM relationship for FabricStream API partner program From August 2001 to April 2004 (2 years 9 months) Senior Staff Engineer @ Team Lead for HP-UX Storage stack As a lead member of the FibreChannel and iscsi solution stack development engineering group:  Involved in functional design of FC and iscsi HBA stack for HP and vendor evaluation of iscsi/ TCP offload engines. Program managed and interfaced with customers, from product inception to completion From 1997 to July 2001 (4 years) Senior Presales Consultant @ As a senior presales consultant in DEC’s Network Business Unit: Architected Solutions with an understanding of customer’s complex business requirements and comprising of systems, software and GigaSwitch ATM networking product with L2/L3, IP convergence technologies Conducted technology update seminars to improve customer awareness and lead generation, Application Benchmarking, provided pre sales consulting to Enterprise Hong Kong Customers From 1992 to 1996 (4 years) Research Associate @ Part of the team, which developed 1st MST doppler RADAR http://www.sameer.gov.in/ From December 1990 to April 1992 (1 year 5 months) Research Associate @ http://www.tifr.res.in/ From July 1987 to November 1990 (3 years 5 months)

Practical Product Management @ Pragmatic Marketing From 2010 to 2010 Product Management @ University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business From 2006 to 2006 MBA, General Management, Finance, Strategy @ San Jose State University From 2001 to 2003 M.S, Systems Engineering @ San Jose State University From 2001 to 2003 B.E, Electrical @ Sardar Patel College of Engg. Mumbai University From 1989 to 1992 Power Presentations @ Power Presentations Shailesh Manjrekar is skilled in: Marketing Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage, Product Management, Enterprise Software, Virtualization, Cross-functional Team..., Storage Area Networks, Data Center, Start-ups, High Availability, Pre-sales, Channel, SAN, Disaster Recovery, Business Development, SaaS, Go-to-market Strategy, Professional Services, Networking, Management, Sales Enablement, Storage Virtualization