Dr. Aniruddha Nazre serves as Chairman of the Board at glo. He is an Angel Investor. Ajit Nazre joined Wellington Partners in 2012. He has been working as EVP and CSO at Reliance Industries since 2012. At Reliance, he has been responsible for launching "Jio", a Telecom and Digital Media Services venture that can potentially connect 500M Indians to the internet by the end of 2016. Before joining Reliance Ajit was a Senior Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB) from 2003 to 2011. Ajit made 19 investments with 11 exits. Some of his successful exits at KPCB included LuxVue (acquired by Apple), 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Vertica (acquired by HP) and InfoEdge (IPO in 2006). Prior to KPCB, he worked at SAP from 1998 to 2003 first as Technical Assistant to Hasso Plattner, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of SAP and later MD of SAPMarkets. Ajit Nazre was the founder SAPMarkets, the e-commerce company that SAP acquired in 2002. Prior to SAP, he worked for six years in the medical device industry. From 1991 till 1995, he worked at Zimmer (then a subsidiary of Bristol Myers Squibb) and from 1995 to 1997 at Mathys AG (Synthes) in Switzerland. He holds seven United States and four European patents and has published and presented over 15 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the Technical University of Hanover, Germany, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Michigan Tech, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune, India.
Before SAP, Aniruddha Nazre worked for six years in the medical equipment industry, first in Zimmer, Inc. Bristol Myers and a division of Squibb and then also at Mathys AG (Synthes) in Switzerland. During this time, Aniruddha Nazre developed many new product lines and received 7 American and 4 European patents.
In Pune, Aniruddha Nazre had his schooling at St. Vincent’s High School and then completed BE from COEP in Mechanical Engineering in 1986, where Aniruddha Nazre was the Gold medalist in University. After completing an MS degree in Biomechanics from Michigan Technological University, Nazre achieved his Doctorate degree in biomechanics from Hannover Medical Center in Germany. After many years of working in engineering, product management, and business development, Aniruddha Nazre completed an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Some remarkable investments made during his work duration in KPCB include Cleartrip, Naukri, MapMyIndia, InMobi, Virsa, and LuxVue. Aniruddha Nazre completed 19 investments during the 9 years at KPCB, 11 out of which investments are liquid.
From 1991 to 1995, Aniruddha Nazre worked as a development engineer in Zimmer, Inc. and monitored the introduction of three new product lines in two years. In Mathis AG (synthesis) in Switzerland, Aniruddha Nazre was the group manager for Business Development and Product Management from 1995 to 1997. Aniruddha Nazre has seven United States and four European patents and has published and submitted more than 15 articles in peer-review magazines and conferences. Aniruddha Nazre has been done a Ph.D. from Hanover, BioMenics from Germany’s Technical University, MBA from Harvard Business School in Mechanical Engineering, MS Engineering Tech from MS Michigan Tech, and Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering at College of Engineering, Pune.
