Jeh Daruvala

Founder & CEO, Yactraq


Jeh Daruvala

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Jeh has 26 years of entrepreneurial, investment banking, product management, business/systems analysis and advisory experience in information technology at startups, Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, T-Mobile, TELUS, Avendus Advisors, Gateway Capital. Currently Jeh's primary focus is his role as CEO at Yactraq.com , an IPFD partner of $5 billion+ IntellectualVentures.com, the worlds largest patent bank. Selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor 2016 in the Smart Machines category, Yactraq is also among the first 20 companies showcased in IBM Watson's Cognitive Gallery.

Before migrating to Canada in 2002, Jeh played a key role in incubating Customer Asset, an India based IT infrastructure services venture that evolved into the $300 million, Firstsource Solutions. While working on Delsys, his first startup, Jeh sold the first-ever ethernet switch in India (Cisco).

Jeh has a Masters in Management Studies (Finance) & a Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics) from Bombay University. He is also a lifelong human spaceflight enthusiast and believer in technology innovation as the key driver of corporate and economic growth.