Prior to co-founding Zifino, Sanjay was CEO of Wicket (www.wicketsoft.com), a computer vision company he co-founded with a view to make facial biometrics with opt-in ubiquitous in access control, ticketing and VIP management. Sanjay hired and led a team of engineers and computer vision scientists develop facial authentication products to sports & entertainment venues, corporate offices and airports for facial ticketing, facial access control and facial payments.

Prior to starting Wicket, Sanjay was founder and CEO of Aerva (www.aerva.com), a SaaS software platform to manage content on digital displays, for advertising, employee communications or entertainment. In total Aerva managed 10,000 displays globally, from Times Square billboards to thousands of Anheuser- Busch 7-foot digital cooler doors, displays in 33+ US Naval bases, universities, convention centers, airports and transit hubs. Sanjay founded, grew and sold Aerva in 2015 without raising any outside capital.

From 1996 to 1999, Sanjay picked technology stocks in London for a fund with GBP 12 billion under management. Sanjay’s early career as an engineer was at Sun Microsystems and Olivetti in Silicon Valley, NYNEX and Siemens in Cambridge.

Sanjay has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and Master’s from MIT Media Lab and MBA from INSEAD. He holds three patents in computer vision and one patent in content management systems.

Sanjay serves on the Advancement Committee of UWC in New Mexico and is also an avid mountain biker and a trekker in the Himalayas and around the world.