Ultra Clean Technology Fmr Chief Strategy Officer on Scaling Enterprise Technology Through Strategic Innovation and AI-Driven Transformation

Arindam Guha

IIT Startups, Startup Advisor & Coach

C-suite executive with global track record of delivering product growth strategy across large, mid, and small-cap companies (Oracle, IBM, Juniper), drawing on engineering, product management, sales, and corporate finance experience. Arindam combines product, m&a, and operations roadmap development expertise with a recognized ability to identify themes and patterns across technology industry trends, to deliver strategic and operating plans. He is known for his structured, data-driven build/partner/buy/invest playbook for allocating capital to expand product market share in key current segments and to enter higher-margin adjacent segments. Arindam is a bold, big-picture thinker who executes this playbook through his bias for action and open, data-driven, collaborative process, which he has refined through many successful board-level presentations and decision-making. He has a proven track record of delivering value, balancing scale, structure, and efficiency needs for customers, investors, and employees, as evidenced by multiple awards and recognitions. With the support of his IIT and Chicago Booth alumni networks, Arindam actively engages with the VC and Founder ecosystem, advising early-stage startups on a range of fundraising topics such as the importance of focus, roadmap vision, problem-solution fit before product-market fit, partner vs. build for GTM, and efficient capital allocation for scaling. Arindam is passionate about fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, curiosity, and excellence while mentoring the next generation of leaders. Outside of work, Arindam enjoys reading, running, watching sports, volunteering for cultural activities, and mentoring robotics for kids.

About the host

Sid Shaik

Head of Product, Private Cloud Data Services

Sid is a seasoned Product Leader in the Data Platforms domain. At present, he runs Product at Cloudera for its fastest growing product line, Private Cloud Data Services. Prior to Cloudera, he co-founded a Silicon Valley startup-- Performance Sherpa; his company built performance engineering workflow automation for databases and middleware. Prior to those roles, he worked at Yahoo!, Qubole, Asterdata and Oracle in various Product and Engineering roles. As a Product Manager, Sid loves the creative process of discovering, defining and solving meaningful technology problems in large markets and enjoys scaling product businesses. In his down time, he enjoys taking his kids to soccer practice, he practices yoga, and advises startups.