Sriram Gollapalli

I'm one of the co-founders of Long Angle, a global peer-led community for very high net worth individuals. Long Angle focuses on creating a solicitation-free, confidential space for members to discuss personal finance, planning, investments, and protecting wealth. Long Angle also hosts live member events and syndicates curated access to private market investment opportunities.

At TBD Angels, I'm privileged to collaborate with and learn from other angel investors as we provide advice and investments to brilliant founders and their startups.

Led implementation of improved SaaS capabilities, processes, and policies to enable Agilent to more rapidly and successfully integrate SaaS acquisitions, stand up new SaaS products and accelerate performance of current ones. Designed and launched Agilent Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.

He was responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Software and Informatics technology and product development for all of ACG and continuous evolution of Agilent’s production cloud technology infrastructure and products. He oversaw the creation, execution, and development of all software products and services and ACG’s Cloud Strategy. In addition to driving the effectiveness of the technology infrastructure and operations team, he worked across the organization to ensure advances in process and technology are fully exploited throughout the company.

Sriram Gollapalli led the daily execution of iLab's product development, engineering teams, and researcher support operations. He drew on over a decade of online community and application development to deliver secure, robust solutions and provide outstanding user support. iLab Solutions provided web-based software and services designed to streamline research operations. iLab offers Core Facility Management, Lab Management and Inventory modules, all designed to save researchers time, make more efficient use of resources, and increase transparency and standardization. Acquired by Agilent Technologies in August, 2016.

Spoke annually in an MBA Marketing class discussing Enterprise B2B SaaS pricing strategies and approach from the iLab journey. Also completed a published Case Study for future students.

• Ranked in the top 2% of peers each year, nationally • Constructed analytical models to forecast cost reduction and simulate cost impact of various IT consolidation and resource optimization scenarios. • Managed and created complex IT strategy work plans for global/virtual teams. • Developed and delivered communication briefings to CXO levels of organizations. Highlighted projects include: • Global pharmaceutical manufacturer: Led a team to form a strategic action plan to reduce IT costs by $100 M for enterprise application and infrastructure services from forty-seven countries with $1 B annual IT expenditure over five years. Focus areas included the network layer, data centers and help desk. • Consumer food business: Defined detailed requirements and specifications to optimize demand planning process for a $9 B brand across seven product lines. Designed custom solution and worked with business and technical users to identify process improvements to forecast consumption and shipments. • Largest global law firm: Recommended growth strategy by assessing key drivers of performance and growth of 12,000 clients with $300 M in annual fees by developing a client management approach. Developed business intelligence tool to identify trends in areas such as customer segmentation and churn. • Federal government department: Provided post merger IT management support for over $2 B in annual spending for technology, organization, and processes. Responsible for advisory support for all SDLC stages for consolidating email and directory services from six disparate systems. Conducted workshops for mid to senior-level IT executives to recommend a strategy for an optimized IT support center for 180,000 users across 22 business units.

• Increased senior developers’ efficiency by designing and implementing a debugging application for RAID card development. Validated RAID card across multiple operating systems and network topologies.

• Conceptualized and produced a prototype to change paper based login mechanism for over 10,000 company wide courses to a database supported touch screen. • Developed applications to track performance of 10,000 courses to measure effectiveness of training costs.

• Managed a team to develop Year 2000 assessment system to track scheduling and financial performance for the Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. • Assessed 500 mission critical systems at the Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, GA.

minors in Engineering and Math