Kumar has about 15 years of IT-industry experience spanning various aspects of technology, project, product, general management, and customer-relationship management.During his 6-year stint at VeriFone, Kumar was involved in designing, developing, and implementing products for credit- and debit-payment switches and processors, stored-value payments at large financial institutions, third-party processors, and retailers.As General Manager–Delivery at Aztecsoft, Kumar successfully engineered a number of web, middleware, and database-technology products. At Hewlett Packard, he managed the engineering function for multi-million-dollar product lines, as Section Manager-R&D.Kumar holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India.