Los Altos, CA, August 19, 2024 – FlemingMartin is pleased to announce that Afero, a market leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, has hired Dilip Kenchammana as their Chief Product and Partnerships Officer. In this role, Dilip will be a visionary strategist responsible for scaling the Company’s product portfolio.
Dilip is a seasoned product leader with device expertise throughout his career at Disney and Netflix, among others. He began his career as a software design engineer and also co-founded a company, Fonav (acquired by Trolltech), focused on a unified communications software platform. Later in his career, Dilip served as Head of Products, Home Media & Entertainment, Qt Development Frameworks at Nokia before joining Netflix. At Netflix, he helped membership grow to 100 million as Director/Head of Product of Device Platform and Partner Ecosystem. Most recently, Dilip was a VP of Product at Disney, building products and growing subscribers and engagement through device partnerships and distribution channels.
Dilip holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University as well as a Bachelor of Technology in Naval Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Afero, a market leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, is focused on making the world’s connected devices secure and accessible for everyone through their purpose-built end-to-end highly secure PaaS. The Company supports the consumer, medical, food services, energy, and insurance industries and has major customers including The Home Depot. Afero products are in over 60 countries and territories globally. The Company has 90+ patents and has raised $100M from leading venture capital firms. They have assembled world-class mobile, hardware, security, and cloud veterans from Google, Apple, Nest, Danger, Microsoft, Amazon, Logitech, Twitter, and Netflix.
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