Sailesh Chutani is the CEO and a co-founder of Mobisante Inc., an mHealth company building cellphone-based, affordable, and easy-to-use ultrasound systems. He was until recently a senior director at Microsoft in Windows Mobile. Prior to that, he managed $100m worth of exploratory research and development in Microsoft Research in emerging technologies to identify and seed new businesses. The results included the formation of multiple new product and business units within Microsoft, such as robotics, technology for emerging markets, education products, and many others, including a startup spin-off, Zumobi.
Sailesh pioneered Microsoft's engagement in personalized medicine, bioinformatics, and systems biology. He was an early visionary who championed cellphone technologies in healthcare, especially to meet the needs of the under-served segments of society. The research that he initiated starting in 2005 is now bearing fruit and migrating out of research labs into commercial products and attracting extensive interest from foundations and investors.
Sailesh's passion lies in commercializing advanced technologies to serve critical market needs. He was a key player in creating and building a successful startup, Transarc Corp., which was spun off from a research project at Carnegie Mellon University and sold to IBM. Two of the technologies developed at Transarc became billion-dollar businesses for IBM and Microsoft. He has had business and technical leadership roles in companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and Microsoft. He has also managed multiple P&Ls and executed successful turnarounds. He has advised several Silicon Valley startups on their business and product strategy, and governmental and non-governmental agencies on their innovation and intellectual property strategy. He has served on the advisory boards of the American Society for Engineering Education and the University of Michigan.
Sailesh has a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; an MS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India.
