Goal: Work with early stage startups to help them grow their business. Understand and have performed all operational aspects of building and running tech companies. Started as a QA engineer in VMware since 2005. Built and managed the QA team for vSphere. Founded and grew www.stockezy.com to become India's leading Social Investment community.

Business Development & Revenue @ Drive go-to-market for mobile customer service SaaS solution From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager - Social Engagement & Growth @ Leading the social engagement and adoption initiative as part of the product strategy and marketing team. Clearvale is an enterprise social network. From March 2012 to October 2012 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-founder & CEO @ Secured funding for the venture. Defined the product, business model and monetization plan. Managed day-to-day business activities including industry research, competitive analysis, marketing and P.R. activities. Business Partnership: Developed and launched 3 paid subscription products in partnership with Dorsey Wright & Associates, a U.S.A. based independent investment advisory firm with $3 Billion in Assets Under Management. Media Partnership: Content sharing partnership with money.livemint.com an online business web-portal with 2 million daily online visitors. Sales Partnership: Signed a revenue share deal with Zee Business, to market and advertise Stockezy’s subscription products to 3 million daily T.V. viewers. Zee Business with 30% market share is ranked amongst India’s top business news channels From August 2008 to August 2012 (4 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. MTS & Team Lead Quality Engineering @ Reported to the Director of QA. Successfully managed a team of 6 engineers in Palo Alto and 6 engineers in India. Hired, trained and grew a cross-global team (U.S, India), from 2 to 16 engineers. Responsible for quality-testing and project management for Enterprise Server Virtualization product vSphere (ESX-Server) across 5 full product release cycles including ESX 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0. From April 2006 to June 2011 (5 years 3 months) Software Quality Engineer @ Responsibilities include, developing and executing tests. Working closely with developers to identify failures, debugging and bug resolution From September 2005 to April 2006 (8 months) Greater Los Angeles Area

MS, Electrical Engineering @ University of Southern California From 2003 to 2005 Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering @ Thadomal Shahani Engineering College From 1999 to 2003 UC Berkley Extension From 2009 to 2011 Tushar Makhija is skilled in: Product Development, Product Marketing, New Business Development, Team Building, Team Management, Team Leadership, Monetization, Software Project Management, Quality Assurance, User Experience, Entrepreneurship, Business Development