Yash Talreja

Biography
Yash Pal Talreja (born 1966 in Delhi, India) is an Inventor, Technologist, speaker and founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the board of Talreja Enterprises. Talreja, who received a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi pioneered the field of Artificial Imagination back in 1989. He is a veteran of the field of Electronic Commerce, with a major invention dating back to 1997 when Electronic Commerce was still in its infancy.



Before founding his own company in 2006, Talreja
worked as a Senior Vice President for Products and Technology at Edgenet Inc., where he led the development of m20 version 2.0, a revolutionery guided selling solution used by leading retailers such as Lowe's and The Home Depot.



Before that, he was a Vice President at PeopleSoft Inc. where he led the development of PeopleTools version8 , a Senior Director of Ecommerce software development at Oracle where he led the team which invented the electronic bill payment and presentment and a part of the senior management team at Amazon. He has also been a Vice President of Engineering at MessageGate, and a Vice President of Products and Technology at Televoke.



Talreja is a member,senior member or fellow of the Unicode Consortium, the Web Analytics Association, Mensa, The San Diego Software Industry Council, The Computer Measurement Group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Association of Computing Machinery and The Indus Entrepreneurs. Her is also a member of the IIT Delhi Excellence Foundation.




Mr. Talreja’s contribution to the field of Electronic Commerce was recognized by grant of US Patent 6578015 (awarded in 2003) recognizing him and his team as inventors. He and his team invented new methods of electronic payment and bill presentation in 1996, when Commerce over the Internet was still in its infancy, allowing electronic payments to conviniently and securely occur over the internet and thus jump starting a whole new industry. T



Because of his many accomplishments and his and his teams breakthrough invention in Ecommerce, he has been a frequent speaker and presenter at various conferences and symposiums in the field of Electronic Commerce such as the Financial Services Technology Consortium and the Electronic Payments Forum
. He is also frequently quoted in the software industry magazines and News journals and magazines.



In addition to his technical contributions, Talreja believes in contributing to social causes as well and has frequently donated to many charitable organizations such as the Impact Fund.



Talreja is also an Technology Advisor to mecca.com, a portal which promotes and reinforces an inspiring, positive image of the strong values that Muslims bring to their respective communities, and is helping out the San Diego Mensa team with launching its new website.



He currently resides in Seychelles with his wife, Sonia and
two lovely daughters, Neha and Priya.
 
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