Raghu Rao is a parallel entrepreneur, strategic business advisor and investor in impactful deeptech ventures. Rao is a founding partner of MaatraVentures.com, a global quant fund leveraging AI to generate true alpha while managing downside risk and CEO of SonnetBio.com focusing on unlocking the value of its biotech platform assets. Rao has founded, scaled and had successful exits with several technology companies. In his 35-year career, Rao has led teams for management, operations and oversight for clients in GovTech, BioTech, Publishing, and Energy sectors. Rao has advised clients on the strategy and roll-out of high-profile projects, such as USA.gov, TSA.gov Screening Gateway, Cancer.gov and other eGovernment initiatives. As the Vistage.com Princeton Chair, Rao ran three high-performing peer advisory boards for middle-market CEOs and business leaders of companies with total revenues exceeding $2 Billion. As the CEO of InfoZen, Rao has managed over $1 Billion in U.S. Federal Government contracts. Rao is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE.org) and a patron of Indiaspora. He has held board/advisor positions at SonnetBio.com, CurioDigitalTx.com, SplitByte.com, CellixBio.com, WizNucleus.com, InfoZen.com, and PaperBattery.com