Sanjay Swamy
Sanjay Swamy is an Indian technologist. He is a mobile technology expert presently working with the Government of India's UIDAI. He was the CEO of mobile company mChek, a mobile security and payments solutions company.
Early life
Sanjay Swamy was born in Madras, India. He completed his degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Bangalore University in 1987. He later went to "Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace" and completed a degree in Avionics & Control Systems Engineering in 1989. Later he received his MS from University of Washington, Seattle in 1992.
Career
Sanjay Swamy worked in the US before moving to India in 2004. 2004 he started building ketera india operations, then he became the CEO of mChek in 2006 and under his leadership mChek signed up several major banks, including ICICI, State Bank of India, Citibank, Visa and mobile telecom carriers AirTel & Tata as partners to bring his service to market. And he helped expand the company's operations to Sri Lanka in a partnership with Dialog.
He worked with mChek for four years before moving to UIDAI in March 2010 where he is working on the Mobile Strategy.
Mentor
Mentoring is not always from professors or funding organisations. Sometimes, an experienced executive from another firm can also turn mentor. In 2005, when Kartik Jain was setting up Picsquare, a photo sharing and online photo prints website, with a friend, mentoring was an essence. He turned to Sanjay Swamy, CEO of mChek, the mobile payment portal. Swamy used his experience and helped Jain in building the product, which is mainly aimed at the NRI community. Swamy also helped them make strategies to bring the product to the market quickly.