Falkonry was founded with the mission to enable step improvement in operational excellence through data and computation. Today, Falkonry's time series AI solutions are used by companies – both large multinationals and regional manufacturers – to power their digital transformation and achieve significant improvements in production uptime, quality, yield, and safety.
Falkonry can discover insights hidden in your operational data and deliver timely, actionable intelligence. We empower our users – plant personnel, process or maintenance engineers, line operators, and analysts – to make better operational decisions with evidence-based approaches.
Our aim is to help you succeed – it’s not about what WE can do, but what YOU can do, with us by your side.
Founder & CEO,
Board of Directors
CTO
VP - Public Sector
VP - Smart Manufacturing
Nikunj founded Falkonry after realizing that very valuable operational data produced in industrial infrastructure goes mostly unutilized in the energy, manufacturing & transportation sectors. Nikunj believes hard business problems can be solved by combining machine learning, user-oriented design & partnerships.
Prior to Falkonry, Nikunj led software architecture & customer success for C3 IoT. Earlier, he led innovation teams at Oracle focused on database technology & led the creation of the IndexedDB standard for databases embedded inside all modern browsers.
He holds both Masters & Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, & a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai. He has contributed to standards at both W3C & IETF, & is a member of the ACM.
Dan is responsible for technology stewardship at Falkonry. He brings a childlike enthusiasm for industrial machinery & over 20 years of experience transforming novel technology into consumable software across a diverse spectrum of business.
Most recently, Dan led data analytics efforts in the insurance industry for Guidewire. Earlier experience includes architect roles at Motorola & Cisco, as well as founding-team leadership roles at genomics startup Maverix Biomics & IOT applications platform C3.
He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Ian is responsible for Falkonry’s federal government business. A veteran of venture-backed startups with dual-use commercial/public sector offerings, Ian brings more than 30 years of experience in the field of advanced analytics. A computational linguist by training, he led the natural language technology area at Inxight Software from its roots within Xerox to a successful acquisition by SAP BusinessObjects. He was Global CTO at Attensity Group & Chief Product Officer at Saffron Technology until the latter’s acquisition by Intel.
In addition to his executive duties, Ian has long played an active role with government customers. Inxight was an early In-Q-Tel portfolio company & in a short period its ThingFinder product became the dominant natural language technology in the defense & intelligence community. He continued that role at Attensity & has led Falkonry’s customer-facing initiatives in the sector from the beginning.
Ian earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Rice University & was awarded fellowships for graduate studies at UC Berkeley & visiting research grants at Belgium’s Rijksuniversiteit Gent & Katolieke Universiteit Leuven before moving into industry at IBM. He is based on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Ashis Khan has 30+ years of experience in customer value creation, revenue growth, P&L management, business development, and marketing. Ashis was the CEO/CRO at UnifyTwin, helping manufacturing companies to achieve productivity and sustainability goals using IIOT, Digital Twin, and AI/ML-based Industrie 5.0 Apps; UnifyTwin’s parent company Knowledge Lens was acquired by Rockwell Automation in March 2023.
Previously Ashis was Vice President of New Business Development at relayr, a Kleiner-Perkins funded IOT/AI startup that was acquired by Munich Re in 2018; Ashis was responsible for global sales pipeline buildout and partnership-led revenue generation. Ashis was Vice President at L&T Technology Services, where he was responsible for generating revenue from Smart Manufacturing and Smart Building solutions as well as portfolio-management of Strategic Global accounts.
Ashis had led business growth in EVP roles at start-ups such as Tata Computational Research Lab (a HPC Cloud company acquired by TCS) and TelASIC (a Raytheon Spin-off developing LTE Radio Heads, acquired by MTI). Ashis has an MS in EE from Stony Brook University and a B. Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communications from IIT Kharagpur.
Independent Director
Director,
Zetta Venture Partners
Parveen is a veteran of enterprise software & the power generation industry. Most recently, he was the CEO of RedSeal Networks, a network infrastructure security management company. Previously, he was founder & CEO of JovianDATA Inc. (acquired by MarketShare in 2010). He is currently also on the Board of Directors of Armor Defense & OpsHub.
He has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, a B.S. in Physics from Delhi University, & a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science.
Mark has 26 years of venture capital experience & has funded & served on the boards of numerous successful start-ups, including Omniture (IPO; subsequently acquired by Adobe), AdForce (IPO; subsequently acquired by CMGI), NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Scopus Technologies (IPO; subsequently acquired by Siebel) & Crowdfactory (acquired by Marketo). He is currently a Founder & Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners, the first early stage fund focused only on the intelligent enterprise. Mark is as a director of various private companies including Domo & InsideSales. Prior to his career in venture capital, Mark served as a software executive, entrepreneur, & a member of the first SparcStation team at Sun Microsystems.
Mark is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, & a board member of the MIT Investment Committee (MITIMCo). In 2011, Mark was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST), a 21-person advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists & engineers (www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast).
He graduated from MIT & received Masters Degrees from the University of Minnesota & Stanford University.
General Partner,
Black Opal Ventures
Ex Head of Data Science,
CIA
Eileen Tanghal has been a venture capital investor for almost 20 years. Currently, she is General Partner at Black Opal Ventures. Previously, she was Managing Director at In-Q-Tel, the non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to the CIA and other U.S. Government agencies.
Before joining IQT, Eileen was Vice President of New Business Ventures at ARM, and General Manager of Applied Materials’ Applied Ventures unit. Before entering the corporate/strategic venture capital world, she worked as a financial VC at two UK-based firms - first at Amadeus Capital Partners and later at Kennet Partners.
Eileen started her career as one of the first engineering team members of a semiconductor consulting and software startup company called PDF Solutions which had a successful IPO in 2002.
Eileen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree from M.I.T. and an MBA from the London Business School.
Dr. Barbara N. Stevens is an executive leader with a diverse background in government, academia, and industry. She is a former executive-level leader in the Central Intelligence Agency with more than 35 years of experience in bringing data analysis and cloud computing to modernize technology infrastructure. She is a proven leader in delivering and providing executive training, and in leading change within organizations. She has built and directed complex data science programs. She is currently a Certified Director with the National Association of Corporate Directors. Since leaving government, Dr. Stevens served as the CEO of Exovera, a technology startup.
She is currently the Managing Member of Nelson Analytic Consulting, LLC, a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Advisory Board for the FDD’s Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation, and Independent Board Director for the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Hexagon US Federal, and Moneycorp NA. She is passionate about mentoring young women in STEM and does this through the nonprofit Spookstock Foundation dedicated to helping the children of fallen Intelligence Community officers.
Dr. Stevens holds a PhD from the Florida State University in Mathematical Statistics, and previously served on the faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia.
