Shekhar Kirani

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Dr. Shekhar Kirani serves as Partner at Accel. Dr. Kirani served as Advisor at ffreedom. He also serves as a Board Member at ChargeBee and Good Methods Global. He is an Investor from Seed Stage at ChargeBee. He serves as a Partner and Investor at Accel India. He serves as an Executive at OSlash. He served as an Investor From Seed Stage at Hotelogix. He serves as a Board Member at ANSR. He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Beaconstac. He served as Board Member at Jifflenow. He served as a Board Observer at Crownit. He has been an active angel investor in Bangalore since 2007 and has advised several early-stage startups in and around Bangalore. He also serves as an Advisor at IndianMoney.com. He served as a Board Member at CareStack and Urban Ground. He serves as a Board Member at SureWaves. He served as a Board Member at Freshworks. Before joining Accel, he headed VeriSign India as Country Manager. He serves on the boards of FreshDesk, HotelLogix, Mobstac and. Before VeriSign India, he worked as Vice President at VeriSign in Mountain View in their mobile division. Before VeriSign, he worked closely with Philippe Kahn in creating LightSurf Technologies, which was acquired by VeriSign in 2005. Before LightSurf, he worked as part of the management team at Starfish Software, which was acquired by Motorola in 1998. He started his career at Texas Instruments in Bangalore and then worked for Wipro Technologies. Post his studies, he worked at Qwest (U.S. West Technologies) in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, an ME from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a BE in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, India.