Amol Sarva
CEO, Peek
Dr. Amol Sarva is an American technology entrepreneur who leads Peek and was a founder of Virgin Mobile USA. Amol has led Peek as its founder and CEO through worldwide product launches and raised over $20 million from top venture capitalists including RRE Ventures. Peek produces a cloud platform for smart and low cost mobile devices.
In 2007, Amol testified in front of the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Senate advocating open access in wireless spectrum policy. He gave oral testimony before Senator Ted Stevens ("The Internet is a series of tubes"). He was profiled on C-SPAN and has written on behalf of the Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation, and served as adviser to greenfield network startup Frontline Wireless.
He's one of the original members of the Founders' Roundtable in New York, a group of 200+ venture-backed startup founders that has met monthly since 2006, and has touched dozens of VC-backed startups and many of the top founders in NYC. He has been named multiple times to the Silicon Alley 100 list of top New York entrepreneurs. He is a mentor for the NYC Seed venture capital fund's SeedStart program.
Amol's Ph.D. is from Stanford University and B.A. is from Columbia University. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he was a city, state and national champion in debate and team captain. His website is A.Sarva.Co.
In 2007, Amol testified in front of the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Senate advocating open access in wireless spectrum policy. He gave oral testimony before Senator Ted Stevens ("The Internet is a series of tubes"). He was profiled on C-SPAN and has written on behalf of the Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation, and served as adviser to greenfield network startup Frontline Wireless.
He's one of the original members of the Founders' Roundtable in New York, a group of 200+ venture-backed startup founders that has met monthly since 2006, and has touched dozens of VC-backed startups and many of the top founders in NYC. He has been named multiple times to the Silicon Alley 100 list of top New York entrepreneurs. He is a mentor for the NYC Seed venture capital fund's SeedStart program.
Amol's Ph.D. is from Stanford University and B.A. is from Columbia University. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he was a city, state and national champion in debate and team captain. His website is A.Sarva.Co.
Twitter: @amolsarva
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