Miku Jha is the founder and CEO of AgShift. She grew up planting mango trees on a 4th generation
family farm - in a Smallholder farming community - in Northern India.
Miku is a passionate entrepreneur and product executive with a proven track record. She has led multiple startups from the founding stage to successful acquisitions & mergers with companies such as IBM and Xyratex. As a product executive, she has launched large-scale enterprise products in mobile and the internet of things for companies such as VMware and IBM.
Miku helped build and scale multiple storages, mobile software startups into well-known global companies. She was instrumental in growing the storage business as a Founding engineer at Ariodata, which was acquired by Xyratex Inc. She helped grow and scale mobile business and products at Worklight, which was acquired by IBM. She has lead several mobiles and IoT initiatives at IBM – under Mobile-First portfolio. She was responsible for the successful execution of the Mobile virtualization initiative at VMware under the office of the CTO.
At AgShift, Miku manages a nimble team of data scientists, researchers, and technologists driven by a single passion – to digitize the food supply chain with cutting-edge innovations in deep learning and data science – which results in better transparency, better food quality, and reduced food wastage. Miku serves on the advisory board of BetterMDM, PlainMark, and MergeLane. Miku has an MBA from Cornell University and a BS (Hons.) in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai.
With AgShift, she is inspired to apply technology to solve real challenges in Agriculture, Globally. She is also passionate about women in technology. She has lead multiple corporate initiatives to help young women entrepreneurs succeed. She continues to be a mentor to many young women entrepreneurs in technology – inspiring and guiding them to success!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikujha
Twitter: @miku_jha
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