Miku Jha is the founder and chief executive of AgShift - a Silicon Valley based agriculture technology startup, with a mission to design a fully transparent & digitized food system.

Driven by her passion for building impactful businesses and beautiful products, Miku has created large-scale technology solutions from scratch at multiple successful starts ups and well know global companies such as VMware and IBM.

She was instrumental in growing the storage business as a founding engineer at Ariodata, which was acquired by Xyratex Inc. In her role as chief solution architect, she helped scale mobile business and product at Worklight, a mobile platform startup, which was acquired by IBM. As a senior executive, she led several mobile, internet of things and big data initiatives at IBM. At VMware, in her program director role, she was responsible for the successful launch and execution of the industry’s first mobile virtualization product, under the office of the chief technology officer.

Miku serves on the advisory board of BetterMDM, PlainMark and MergeLane. She spends a lot of her time mentoring and advising young women in technology as she believes that mentorship is one of the best ways to teach young women about the tech industry.

Miku has an MBA from Cornell University and a BS (Hons.) in computer science from University of Mumbai.

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