Sameer Gandhi Email Address

Managing Partner

Founded in 1983, and managing over $8.8 billion in capital, Accel Partners funds companies from inception through growth stage to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, London, and Bangalore, as well as in China via its partnership with IDG-Accel.

- Well rounded Information Technology strategist with over 25 years of progressive IT experience. - 16 years in Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy, Architecture, Technology and Program Management delivering large scale BI solutions - Directed architecture for a $30 million SAP BI program, which included over 50 projects, 2 system integrators, SAP America, 15 third party vendor companies and 15 legacy applications - Strong leader, creating vision and inspiring teams to drive results- Excellent technology skills including data analysis and business intelligence systems, SAP BW/BI, Business Objects (BO)- Management experience includes all phases of the system's life cycle including business process alignment, analysis, design, construction, conversion, integrated systems testing, training and post-implementation production support.- Recipient of several prestigious awards including CIO award at AT&T - Frequent speaker at various industry conferencesSpecialties: - Business Plan and Business Case Development- Technology Management- BI System Architecture and Landscape Definition for complex business functionality- Software Design, Development, Integration- Data Warehouse Modeling- Balanced Scorecard Methodology- SAP BI