Pawan Gandhi

Kaze.Ai is a new generation conversational AI, Gen AI devices company focusing to Enterprise use cases.

Frontier Tech Capital is a Singapore headquartered multi-strategy investment platform with a specialisation in technology investments. We are licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and offer fund management solutions to Accredited & Institutional Investors

Founder and CEO of COVE IoT - KaHa Pte Ltd, an award winning Smart Wearable Platform with over 60 Global Patents. Our platform COVE has over 10 million unique users achieving their fitness and Wellness goals using our AI Algorithms thanks to our unique architecture and big data models. We are ODM to multiple global bands based in India, Europe, US and to Governments providing health monitoring solutions. Our platform, COVE and COVEnet, offers a wide range of services including digital payment, safety features, health monitoring. With offices in Singapore, Bangalore, and Shenzhen, we have positioned ourselves as a leader in the wearables industry.

Transitioned from Nokia to Microsoft after the acquisition. Decided to move on to pursue my vision to create a Global Smart Wearables Platform

- Member of the Nokia leadership team managing business operations, USD 200M business unit - Setup cross functional team with senior managers to manage e2e operations with focus on efficiency, planning, revenue and consumer story. - Worked cross functionally with country sales teams, Portfolio planning teams, Platform R&D team and responsible for quality gates. 1. ‘Go to Market’ and business performance – Responsible for business performance - activation, engagement, revenue. Sales performance, creating analytic tools, mining user performance data and planning tactical marketing activities. 2. Portfolio planning (6 months to 24 months) – evangelize future trends, innovations, managing partnerships and delivery milestones. 3. Program Management – Delivery, testing and integration in ‘program’ mode all apps pre-loaded on the device. 4. Technical readiness – Manage quality gates globally. Setup up automation test tools and in-sourced key elements of testing and integration. Recognised for creating new test tools that were up-scaled to global R&D.

• Being grounds up business unit the role was a COO role covering all aspects of business. • Developing consumer acquisition and retention features leading to technology innovation and scaling to 10 million unique users. Largest of its kind globally. • Set up and led product program team to manage application integration to device platform, launch management, sales and marketing in a Go to Market mode, consumer analytic, planning marketing initiatives to increase retention, new subscriber acquisition and increase consumer engagement. The service achieved break even with 18 months of launch in India. • Recognition for innovation by organizations like The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the GSM forum, World Mobile Congress, UNICEF and several state governments.

• Achieved total dominance for Nokia's DVB-H broadcasting platform and won all the B2B deals in APAC against completion from companies from US, Korea and China, ensuring Nokia was the undisputed leader in this pioneering space. Vietnam became the first country followed by India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. • Was independently responsible for revenue deals of over USD 21 Million from sales of broadcasting facility (H/W and S/W licences) and additional revenue from sales of Smart phones in Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Germany. • Was recognized as industry expert in broadcast technology contributing to regulatory ‘in-camera’ sessions in most countries in Asia Pacific and Europe and was a nominated member of the DVB Steering board. • Have several published documents on Mobile and digital consumer services and have been an expert panellist in various global industry events - NAB (US), IBC (Europe), CASBAA (APAC), BES (India), FICCI (India).

- Start-up team member in the year 2000, was responsible for regulatory approvals, large spectrum partnerships. - Business partnership with organizations like India Meteorological Department – setting up the first satellite based disaster warning and MET information system in India that was recognized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This partnership led to providing meteorological content to Indian Navy ships and to Indian Air force. Press Trust of India (PTI) to provide rich news content to all its B2B partners like Associated Press (AP), CNN, BBC, Times News, and Hindustan Times and over 60 such news broadcasters across the world. Created a BU unit which contributed to over 60% of India business revenue - over USD 50 million per annum within first 3 years. • From early 2004 onward led the strategy with the WorldSpace Chairman and board members towards a successful IPO. As member of the global team that successfully demonstrated India business model to investors and analyst leading to IPO at NASDAQ in April 2005 and raising significant capital (over US$250M) for next round of growth.

Entrepreneur – International award document film maker, produced and directed several hours of commissioned television content and advt films. Also managed consulting wing with focus on business case modelling, regulatory consultations for international start-ups in India. Managed clients like Macquarie bank (Australia), Oberoi hotels (India), K-Link (Malaysia), Worldspace (US) supporting them for regulatory requirements in India and also in creating business plans, startup team recruitments. Made several short films and TV series and handled production assignments. • International award winning documentary. • Documentaries for Ministry of Rural Development (SARAS), Tele Film for Ministry of Home Affairs (Kashmir), Short Films for Ministry of Information and Broadcasting department (Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity (DAVP), Several programs for Doordarshan, public broadcaster of India. Over 200 hours of original television content for various Indian and foreign channels. • Worked with advertising agencies and created commercials films for brands like Sriram Honda, Whirlpool, Oberoi Hotels, Trident Hotels, Bharat Shell. • Bagged the prestigious project of launching the Gyan Darshan Channel for Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) under the Ministry of HRD.

Executive Management Program from IIM, Calcutta Science graduate, Topped the college, Panjab University