Sam Gulve
Managing Director , Spice Mobility
Sam (Samir) Gulve has over 25 years of diverse, global technology industry experience. During his career, Sam has held various senior management positions at world renowned companies such as Amdocs, AT&T Bell Labs, Avaya, Netscape, SSA, CDI Inc. as well as at highly successful startups such as Kiva Software, Calico Commerce, Visual Insights and Shakti Systems. During his career, Sam has held key leadership roles in diverse functional areas including General Management, R&D, Engineering, Sales, Strategy and Operations. With over decades of experience in North America with global responsibilities and last 5 plus years in India. Currently Sam is Joint Managing Director with Spice Mobility with global responsibility for the services vertical and is focused on bringing consumer facing, innovative, value added services to mobile user masses in India, Africa, South East Asia and Middle East. In his previous role as CMD for Avaya India, Sam was responsible for all India Brand, strategy and execution. In an extremely challenging, global economic environment, Sam was able to exceed all key business KPIs while integrating diverse assets and cultures across various business groups. Earlier, as a Sr. Vice President at Amdocs India, Sam was responsible for building and executing on Amdocs’s India strategy. Sam helped grow Amdocs India strength from 50 in to over 3300 in just over 3 years. During this time Sam also sponsored CMMI-L3 certification for Amdocs India and built and ran managed services business for Amdocs, which is now the fastest growing business unit at Amdocs. Prior to Amdocs, Sam has been credited with building worldwide technical sales teams for enterprise markets at Netscape and Calico Commerce, for releasing highly successful enterprise class software products to market at SSA and Consolidated commerce and playing a key role in successful acquisition at Kiva software and Shakti Systems and record breaking IPO at Calico Commerce. Sam has also co-founded two companies. Sam holds a B.Tech. in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology -Bombay, M.S in computer science from Virginia Tech and has done substantial work towards doctorate in computer science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Sam has won several industry recognitions in both continents and was recently named as one of the most influential technology leaders in India.