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Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant and authors a popular blog on those topics and more, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. Her fields of experience range from technology sectors such as semiconductors and software to consumer marketing industries such as Internet, media, fashion and education. As an entrepreneur CEO, Mitra founded three companies: Dais (offshore software services), Intarka (sales lead generation and qualification software) and Uuma (online personalized clothing store using Expert Systems software). As strategy consultant, Mitra has consulted with more than 70 companies, including SAP, Cadence Design Systems, Webex, KLA-Tencor and Tessera among others. Her work has also included numerous startups and venture capital enterprises, and she has served as interim vice president of marketing for seven such ventures. Mitra has a proven track record in turnarounds, for both small, private companies and divisions of larger companies. She has also created major growth strategies through new market penetration, mergers and acquisitions and industry rollups. Mitra has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Smith College. She is on the board of the MIT Club of Northern California's Entrepreneurship Program and is an advisor to the MIT India program and the MIT OpenCourseWare program, both based in Cambridge, Mass.
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