Parag Sheth

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Mr. Parag Sheth serves as Managing Director at Progress Partners. Mr. Sheth served as Director and Chief Marketing Officer at Maryland Venture Fund. Mr. Sheth served as Director & Chief Marketing Officer at TEDCO. For the past 20 years, he has successfully led sales and marketing efforts for several venture-backed startups and multinationals. He has time and again built multi-million dollar businesses starting from scratch as well as rapidly grown existing businesses across the globe. His expertise scales across verticals, company size, and geography. His first two venture-backed start-ups were in the telecom hardware space and both had successful exits for the investors. Subsequent venture-backed start-ups were in telecom software, motion sensors, and global outsourced back-office verticals. Parag understands the challenges entrepreneurs face, having run his own marketing software company that he bootstrapped through consulting and built into a successful business. Parag started his career at TTC (now JDSU) where he held several sales responsibilities over seven years. He also led North America marketing for Siemens AG, SIE (ETR), and global marketing for Spirent Communications, SPT (LON). Parag is well known as a connector in the Mid-Atlantic community. He holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He served as Director of Sales at HSP Group.