MANOJ GOEL

Manoj is an entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor, advisor, ex-VC fund manager, and ex-president of IIT Startups, a non-profit accelerator in Silicon Valley, that has graduated 80 startups, of which 7 have exited.

He has 20+ years of experience at Apple, Cisco, HP Enterprise and few startups, in technology marketing, strategic alliances, and business development. During dot com era, he co-founded Internet Junction, a security startup, bootstrapped via OEM’s, resulting in exit to Cisco as their 1st software acquisition, laying the foundation of Cisco Security Business Unit.

Manoj has an MBA from Haas at UC Berkeley (took economics class by Janet Yellen), MS Computer Science from Syracuse University, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee).