Rao is a technology innovator, entrepreneur and seasoned executive in Silicon Valley. He founded and led venture-backed IT infrastructure start-ups that delivered award-winning products over the last two decades in Networking, Security and Analytics. He holds five patents in Trusted Computing, Containers and Networking. Rao has also advised, invested in, and served on the boards of several technology start-ups in the areas of Security, IoT and Next-generation application infrastructure.
More recently his focus is on IoT Security and the evolving IoT IAM strategy, including edge computing and fog computing. At Device Authority Rao focuses on the product strategy and strategic partnerships and alliances, many of which are Silicon Valley based.