Shanker is responsible for industry business development and worldwide sales for the PSG products (Quadro, VGX/Grid and Tesla). His aim is to make NVIDIA the premier provider of scientific, technical and high-performance computing solutions. Prior to NVIDIA, he was Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, Corporate Development at Callidus Software. During this period, revenues doubled to over $100m and market-value tripled. Prior to Callidus, Shanker held senior executive positions at Sun Microsystems where, as VP and General Manager, he doubled Sun’s revenue in UK and Ireland to over $1.3bn. Prior to Sun, Shanker held various positions at IBM (Europe) and ICL/Fujitsu (UK). His start‐up experience includes Yugma (instant web conferencing), Equinox in London as well as co-founding Microsense in Hyderabad. Shanker holds an M.B.A. (Gold Medal – 1st rank) from IIM Calcutta and an M.S. in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi.