Episode 1
Business - Thriving in Today's Era - With Sunil Ranka
In this episode we meet and talk with Sunil Ranka about his journey immigrating from India and becoming a high-level executive in Silicon Valley and seeing what growing up in another country has taught him. We also discuss what qualities good entrepreneurs have that leads to a successful business and some mistakes he sees new entrepreneurs make. Along with that we discuss about the new technological market and what the it looks like with Covid-19.
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About Sunil
Sunil S Ranka is a proven leader, an entrepreneur, an investor , an evangelist and a leading business architect involved in providing data Analytics, Process Automation Solutions for large-cap enterprise businesses. His vision as a proven analytics leader, entrepreneur, and investor with a passion for RPA, Data Analytics, and Platform solutions has helped him to launch and accelerate multiple products and startups. Sunil has mentored and invested in 17 startups at the seed round to date. He has continually achieved success with his expertise to increase the efficiency of businesses and to cruise senior leadership teams through complex financial and technical scenarios.
Sunil brings his command as a leader working with Fortune 500 companies, combined with the progressive mindset and futuristic approach of startups, to every venture that he is associated with. With his vast experience and background with Data and Technology, Sunil S Ranka, helps organizations to define strategy and solutions helping to derive better business and in turn impacting their bottom line.
It’s about Automating One Process at a Time.
His personal journey highlights him as a founder at Predikly – a data and RPA innovation company, and Partner at Z Nation Lab – a global support ecosystem designed for high-growth startups and dreamers.
Apart from his technical knowledge, Sunil is also a featured writer for the Forbes Technology Council. He has provided leadership to his teams and has been at speaking engagements at various conferences as listed:
• COLLABORATE ( 2009, 2010 , 2011 ,2012, 2013)
• BIWA SIG TechCast Series (2010 , 2011 , 2012, 2013),
• NorCal OAUG-2010 at Santa Clara Convention Center, CA
• Session speaker at NoCouG in San Francisco
• Oracle Open World (2009, 2010, 2012)
• Data Summit New York ( 2015)
Digital Transformation Speciality: Robotic Process Automation, Intelligence Process Automation, Digital worker, BOT.
Data Specialties: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Hadoop, Data Architecture
Analytics Speciality: Social Media, Services, Video, Healthcare, Retail
Customers: Hewlett-Packard ( HP ), Verizon Communications, Cisco, Pella Corporation, Clorox, Oreilly Media, Fox Media, Sony PlayStation, UMP-Physicians, Oracle, Explorys, Schlumberger, NYU, Hara Software , DCP Midstream, PMI