SA GLOBAL ADVISORS - Key Persons


Deepak Mehrotra - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • President, COO and Board Member of GTRAN
Deepak has spent over 25 years as a successful serial entrepreneur, inventor and senior technology executive with world-class global technology companies. Deepak is the President, COO and Board Member of GTRAN, a company he founded in 2000. He holds a BS from IIT, Kanpur and a Masters, Engineering Management from Stanford University. He has been granted 10 patents.

Dr. Alok Aggarwal

Job Titles:
  • Board Advisor, Sector Expert
Dr. Alok Aggarwal has over 33 years of international experience as a successful serial entrepreneur & inventor. Currently he is a Founder, CEO at Scry Analytics Inc. Over the years, he has founded the IBM India Research Laboratory, co-founded a Company called Evalueserve - providing research and analytics services to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, pioneered the concept of KPO. He held the senior technology executive position with IBM Corporation as a Computer Scientist in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1984. He received his B. Tech. from IIT Delhi in Electrical Engineering and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1984. Since then, he has published more than 100 research articles and has been granted 8 patents from the US Patents. 33 years as a serial Entrepreneur and Innovator with a deep focus on Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics.

Perry Teevens

Job Titles:
  • Board Advisor, Sector Expert
Perry has over 25 years of international experience driving growth for Silicon Valley Technology companies. At SA, he advises our clients on growth and investment within the Cloud, Industrial IoT and 5G ecosystem. He is passionate about helping companies grow revenues in the US market through strategic partnerships and investments. Currently, he is also Chief Revenue Officer of Native Voice, based in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was CEO of Dysonics, an Intel Capital company and held leadership roles at Comhear, Symphony Teleca and Skype. Perry has extensive and deep experience across the technology sector, supporting Boards of Directors, growing companies into new profitable markets and delivering upon investor expectations. 25 years as an entrepreneur, investor and executive driving growth across Cloud and 5G ecosystem.

Pravin Advani - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
Pravin has spent over 20 years as an entrepreneurial technology executive, advisor and angel investor in several Technology companies. Prior to SA Global Advisors, he held leadership roles at global companies like Aricent,(KKR & Sequoia Portfolio Co) Tellabs, Lucent, Nortel and a successful Silicon Valley start-up Ciena acquired for $2.2B in 2001. Pravin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Bombay University, India and MBA from Thunderbird, US.