Powering a Retail Revolution Startup/business
California,
United States
http://www.altierre.com/
Altierre Corp., a leading provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, is revolutionizing the world of price change and signage as it brings brick-and-mortar stores into the digital age. Currently focusing on the grocery-store subsector, Altierre provides single-platform hardware, software and other IT solutions that enable chain-wide dynamic pricing, improve price accuracy, sharply reduce costs and paper waste, and improve communication with consumers from the onset of the shopping experience to the point-of-purchase. Current price-change processes are unable to keep up with the explosion of information required to serve the diverse needs of retailers and consumers. By addressing a major pain point within the $3 trillion US retail industry, Altierre's digital network solution marks the "next big thing" in retail. Incorporated in 2003, Altierre is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.
Sunit Saxena, CEO of Altierre, has over 27 years' of wide-ranging experience in the silicon chip and other industries. Prior to co-founding Altierre in 2002, he was an Exec. Officer/COO/Exec VP of various companies including Alliance Semiconductor and Sandcraft Inc and has managed very large P&L's in the most competitive sectors of the silicon industry. He has successfully engineered and delivered product to most top-tier companies, including IBM, AT&T, HP, Cisco, Siemens, and the Department of Defense.
Sunit has worked with a vast array of silicon product types and technologies ranging across wireless, memories, microprocessors, networking chipsets, PLD's, etc. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University & an M.S. in Solid State Physics from IIT Delhi, India.