Mr. Sharan has over 25 years of experience in corporate financial leadership roles across technology, consumer and industrial sectors, spanning from early to late stage companies. Most recently, he was CFO at SoundHound AI, a pioneer in voice and conversational artificial intelligence, where he helped the company go public and scale its business nearly ten-fold during his five-year tenure. Prior to that, Mr. Sharan was a finance executive at Nike, holding roles as CFO of Global Operations, Treasurer and VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Prior to Nike, he spent fifteen years at Hewlett-Packard in various financial leadership roles and earlier in his career, he was a consultant with Accenture. Mr. Sharan holds a bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and is a CFA charterholder.