Samir Ghosh has over 25 years experience marketing and selling software and cloud products and custom solutions to enterprise customers for Microsoft, IBM, Lotus and GE/Intellution.  Currently, Samir is VP of Business Development & Strategy at Qontext, the only Social Contextual Collaboration solution for Enterprises.  At Microsoft, Samir  did enterprise platform marketing strategy, positioning, competitive intelligence and global field enablement. Mr. Ghosh helped IBM build, manage and track $billions of sales opportunity through its global Executive Briefing Centers.  Prior to IBM, Samir built Lotus Development Corp.’s professional services organization in APAC out of Singapore and Hong Kong.  Samir managed some of the world’s largest Lotus Notes deployments and was considered by Lotus to be one of the top collaboration experts in the world.  Prior to Lotus, Samir was Regional Sales Manager at Intellution (GE).  Samir managed the Punica beverage brand at Procter & Gamble in Europe.  Samir was founder of Relayte, and Kids On-Line America.  He is an ongoing advisor to start-ups such as MAG Systems and non-profits such as The Clean Oceans Project.  Samir Ghosh has an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an International Business Diploma from Handelshögskolan and BS in Computer Science from WPI.