The Venture Build

Ankur is a general partner at the Executive Enterprise Venture Fund. Ankur was a private equity executive focused on AI strategy and M&A at Vista Equity partners. He has a background in working for BCG and Microsoft Research and has done research at MIT Media Labs and Cambridge University.

With over 25 years of industry expertise, Anuj has forged a remarkable career in customer-focused organizations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Autodesk, and AWS. Known for his passion in ecosystem building, Anuj excels in cultivating partnerships from the ground up as much as expanding existing alliances. As an early cloud ecosystem pioneer in India, Anuj played a pivotal role in driving early regional growth of AWS. Today, he serves as the Founder & CEO of Channlworks, an Alliance Intelligence Platform. In this role, Anuj leads the charge in helping SaaS companies worldwide discover and manage global alliances, positioning Channlworks at the forefront of AI led alliance Intelligence innovation.

Ashok Ramaswami is founder and CEO of Seqnc Inc., a finance SaaS company where he leads all aspects of strategy and product. He is also a CFO consultant and trusted advisor to CxOs of high growth companies. He has deep expertise in strategic finance, capital markets, and transaction advisory. He has held leadership roles with global technology, investment banking, and VC/PE firms over his 20+ years of experience. He was a Principal with Blumberg Capital (a $500+ million early stage venture capital firm), an Investment Director with Evolvence Capital (a $1+ billion India private equity firm), and a founding member of Cisco Systems' Emerging Technologies Group where he evaluated and formed business units in new markets. Previously, Ashok was a senior technology investment banker at Deutsche Bank Securities and Dillon Read where he advised on 25+ public/private financing (including IPOs, secondary, private placements, and convertible note offerings) and M&A transactions representing $2.5+ billion in value. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, MS from Stanford School of Engineering, and B Eng in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, India.

Erik Cottrell has held numerous roles including CEO, CPO, SVP, GM, and startup founder over the span of his 25-year career. Erik brings business and leadership perspective to our digital transformation engagements.

Ganesh is a technology innovator and leader, driving digital transformation in healthcare, finance, and retail. Currently the CEO of Aurix Global Advisors, a technology advisory firm specializing in helping startups, SMBs, and enterprises leverage emerging technologies for growth.

Extensive experience in launching digital products and startups, forming strategic alliances, and managing diverse technology portfolios. Proven track record in conceptualizing and commercializing successful solutions in enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management, functional medicine, remote patient monitoring, revenue cycle management, and post-acute care. A visionary leader with a passion for solving complex challenges and driving innovation.

Gurshaman currently advises technology venture capital firms and startups with strategy, sales growth, scaling operations and resiliency. As General Partner of Enterprise Venture Fund (EVF), he is driving acceleration of AI roadmaps in enterprises. Gurshaman is also very actively involved in efforts to transform cancer treatment and care, through influence and awareness.

Previously, in leadership roles at Texas Instruments, including Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Gurshaman enabled industry-leading transition from 200-millimeter to 300-millimeter analog semiconductor manufacturing to improve quality, operational efficiency, and free cash flow. He optimized the supply chain, significantly improving customer satisfaction. He transformed the sales and design processes, creating a worldwide eCommerce platform. He consolidated a fragmented data environment into an enterprise-level function and enabled the company to operate with an integrated commercial posture that doubled the rate of growth. He also executed a comprehensive cyber security strategy, improving risk posture and standard certification scores. 

Harshal Shah is the founder and CEO of The Venture Build (TVB). TVB is an operator focused venture capital company. He is also the CEO of Gateway Digital US, a joint venture with the Gateway Group of Companies. Harshal brings more than 25+ years of executive leadership, business, and technology experience.

Harshal has managed private equity, product engineering services, and healthcare and life sciences P&Ls for multi-billion-dollar technology services in the past. An entrepreneur & former healthcare co-founder, Harshal continues to be advisor to multiple start-ups & on board of several technology and entrepreneurial companies & non-profits. He is currently the president of TiE Austin, one of the largest non-profit entrepreneur networks.