Chirag has wide ranging experience from managing start-ups, technology commercialization to venture capital. He started his career with Honeywell R&D labs in the US where he worked on commercializing real-time, mission-critical avionics and automation products. Subsequently his time at an early stage venture fund and later leading the business development and operations for a technology startup he co-founded taught him invaluable lessons in entrepreneurship in a fiercely competitive US market.

At SoftDEL, Chirag has led several initiatives ranging from running and managing the Matrikon-SoftDEL relationship from grounds up to a team of 30+. He was instrumental in strategizing and sharpening the company's positioning around industrial grade networking and control solutions, helped conceptualize and seed the industrial wireless network management program and managed the building of SoftDEL's world-class technology center in Pune.

Chirag holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and a BS in Computer Science from Michigan Tech University, USA.