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EMEA Lead, Strategy, Innovation and Business Development

Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates, distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from all data : data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks is focused on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi and Spark. Along with its 1,600+ partners, Hortonworks provides the expertise, training and services that allow customers to unlock transformational value for their organizations across any line of business

Abhas, an electrical engineer by training, is a seasoned strategy consultant and a passionate entrepreneur. An experienced advisor to CXOs of the world’s largest FTSE 100 organizations he has lived in 6 countries and been to 36! An ardent innovator, he holds an inimitable experience of incubating a Digital start-up, and successfully growing it as a lean alternative growth engine bringing in revenues in excess of $10M. Currently he heads the EMEA business of a dynamic startup and mentors multiple other tech start-ups as a growth hacker/advisor. He helps early stage startups with angel Investments, product prototyping, affiliate partnership strategy, marketing and loyalty biz-stream creation and sustainable 360 degree growth, across both sides of the Atlantic. Beyond his day job, he runs his NGO that has sent over 5000+ underprivileged children to school, and is involved in manifold leadership roles across a host of organizations to bring about a positive change in the society. Passionate about addressing poverty and education inequality, he has spoken at numerous conferences around the globe. He was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and he aims to touch the lives of 1million+ underprivileged children during his lifetime, by leveraging Ed-tech solutions that digitize education platforms.