Shankar Somasundaram

Shankar is the CEO and Founder of Asimily. As part of this role, Shankar drives the overall vision, strategy and core technology for the company.

Prior to Asimily, Shankar started and ran the IoT Business at Symantec which he grew from $0 to $40M in ARR, from 0 to 100 employees winning some of the largest Industrial, Retail and Automotive customers in US and Europe. Before the IoT Business , Shankar ran corporate strategy and business development for the Veritas Business Unit where he was involved in Veritas’s first outbound OEM deal for their storage product and was instrumental in driving many key strategic business development and corporate strategy transactions.

Before Symantec, Shankar ran product management for the iPhone 3G modem at Interdigital running Layer 2 and above for license to Apple which went into millions of phones worldwide. Shankar built on this from his time at Qualcomm where he built some of Qualcomm’s early 3G technology around noise cancellation, call processing and other areas . Through his career, Shankar has more than 60+ granted patents with many more pending.

Shankar has a MBA from London Business School, UK, Masters from Rutgers, US and a Bachelors from Mumbai University, India.