Atul Batra

Ex-CTO-Manthan Systems & Past Chair-Nasscom Product Council

Global software executive and thought leader with strong leadership, technology and strategic skills backed by entrepreneurial instincts. Deep expertise in all facets of engineering, product management, business, GTM and partnerships.

Diverse track record including current ten-year stint in analytics/AI/SaaS at Algonomy/Manthan, a year and half in consumer at Yahoo!, two years in mobile at Motorola / Good Technology and ten plus years at Sun Microsystems / Netscape in enterprise java. Extensive experience leading large global organizations as well as smaller cross-functional teams in hands-on manner to deliver enterprise-class products centered around analytics & AI / SaaS / deep tech / internet / mobility / platforms to market. Demonstrated strengths in change management, hiring top talent, and in motivating and
driving high-performance teams to produce market leading innovations in demanding business environments.

Currently helping drive cloud and security strategy for Algonomy (merger of Manthan & RichRelevance) and more recently long time CTO for Manthan, a global analytics/AI SaaS market leader for retail and consumer focused industries. Previously headed Vertical Search engineering at Yahoo! Bangalore driving build out of next-gen vertical intent products. Before that led Motorola Good Technology Group’s engineering organization through the acquisition by Visto Corporation including managing product portfolio encompassing mobile messaging, mobile device management, mobile secure access and device security. Prior to that led key component of Sun’s open source and architecture strategy in the web portals and middleware segment. Also represented Sun in industry standards technical groups as well as cross-company initiatives.

Past four years include cross-industry leadership role at premier India IT industry body NASSCOM helping build-out of India’s fast emerging product & start-up ecosystem as Chairman NASSCOM Product Council, and as part of the NASSCOM Board. Track record of deep impact and strong influence in community building and scaled programs across
India and global technology, products and start-ups, businesses, investor, research & academia and government ecosystems.