Leadership Team
Raunak Bhinge
Managing Director, Founder Infinite Uptime
Dr. Raunak Bhinge is Managing Director at Infinite Uptime. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has completed his Engineering and post-graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has 4 international patents and 16 publications to his credit in the field of high-frequency predictive analytics and scalable machine digitization. He started his career at Infinite Uptime in the US in December 2015. He is involved in building the company, its distributed team, and the market that the company serves today. Infinite Uptime was listed as one of the top 10 IoT companies in the APAC region by CIO Outlook magazine, due to its unique product differentiation and patented product delivery. He has presented at conferences around the world, been a guest speaker at several manufacturing events, a delegate to University College Dublin, and a proponent of the MT Connect Standard.
JD Margulici
Chief Technology Officer, Infinite Uptime
JD is Chief Technology Officer at Infinite Uptime. He operates from Berkeley California. He is also president of Novavia Solution Oakland California. JD has completed his MS in Transportation Engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Haas School of Business. He was CTO for Vehicle Data Science for 3 years where he developed a next-generation roadway mapping engine from fleet data. He was Associate Director for California Center for Innovative Transportation, Berkeley, California for more than 5 years where he guided and provided technical assistance in intelligent transportation systems research. He has more than 20 years of experience with information systems and technology solutions for transportation and manufacturing operations, traveler information, GIS & mapping, and enterprise data warehousing. With both engineering and business degrees, he held leadership positions in software engineering, project management, product development & marketing, R&D management & technology transfer, business development, and general management for the organizations that he has worked for.
Arnab Roy
Senior Vice President & Global Business Head, Infinite Uptime
Arnab Roy is Senior Vice President & Global Business Head at Infinite Uptime. He has a postgraduate degree in Marketing. He is graduated in Industrial Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He is responsible for the P/L and Global GTM focusing on building winning teams, ensuring customer success, and enhanced employee and customer experience. He is a business leader of consequence and has more than 25 years of experience in running successful businesses. Previously he was the Head of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and HEC business for the India Subcontinent. Before that, Arnab held various leadership roles in organizations like NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Wipro, Godrej, Symantec. He is good at solving business problems leveraging technology. He is an expert in building and nurturing teams. His leadership style is to coach and lead with candor and empathy.
SR Puttalingaiah
Head of Business Development, Infinite Uptime
SR Puttalingaiah is Head of Business Development at Infinite Uptime. He is a domain expert and authority in the field of condition monitoring. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Instrumentation and Electronics. Puttalingaiah has more than 22 years of experience in Condition monitoring. For more than 11 years he led Emerson’s Process Management division and built its condition monitoring business in Inda from scratch. At Vestas Wind, he headed the technology center to monitor over 16000 wind turbines globally. He is skilled in management, engineering, project commissioning and in helping organizations improve their asset reliability and performance.
Advisors
Carl Bass
Advisor, Infinite Uptime
Carl Bass is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk. Autodesk is a maker of professional 3D design software and consumer applications. Carl was a co-founder of Ithaca Software (a computer graphics company), which commercialized HOOPS, a 3D graphics system. He also served as CTO and CEO. Carl has been credited with expanding Autodesk beyond its core AutoCAD software through acquisitions and new product developments and transitioning from 2D to 3D model-based design. He is a board member and special advisor to the company.
David Liu
Advisor, Infinite Uptime
Dr. David Liu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Plus.ai headquartered at Cupertino, California. Plus.ai’s mission is to transform the freight industry by deploying large scale fully autonomous commercial transportation fleets. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Standford University. In past, David was the Founder and CEO of RedAtoms, Beijing City, China. RedAtoms is a leader in mobile gaming with a commitment to producing well-crafted games that are fun to play. RedAtoms has produced top-ranking card battle, strategy, and music games, where millions of players interact with each other daily. Throughout his carrier he has helped the companies to grow and worked as CTO for companies like RMG network, Information link.
Amitabh Vaidya
Advisor, Infinite Uptime
Amitabh Vaidya is a Mechanical Engineer. He has completed his Master of Management Science in Marketing from Manipal Institute of technology. He is Director-PLM practice for SQS India Info system Pvt Ltd. His versatile experience consists of leading product engineering, program management and R&D at Mahindra & Mahindra. He also works as a business consultant. He has proven expertise in product lifecycle management, advanced product quality planning (APQP), and application of Six Sigma in manufacturing.
