Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) Bhide is a cofounder, investor, and board director of FleetNurse, Inc. and has been instrumental in its launch since its very inception in May 2018. Besides this assignment, Sandhi served as the Director of Oregon Executive MBA Consulting Corps which helps local startups and non-profit organizations to launch new businesses. He is the President of Anwaya Consulting LLC which provides strategic business and technology consulting for Digital Transformation, IOT and other high tech industries. He is the CEO of a recent startup Balak Drishti (Child Vision), a startup that focuses on making good quality, low cost, durable glasses for children of financially challenged families in developing countries. For this startup, he was the Judges’ award winner for Duck Tank; a winner for the Innovating Children’s Health Challenge by Center for Advancing Innovation; the Best Overall Pitch and People’s Choice Award winner for RAIN’s MONEYmaker Accelerator 2022; and Early Stage Finalist for TiE’s Pitch Oregon 2023. Sandhi is an expert judge and member of the steering committee for the Edison Awards and Edison Universe responsible for recognizing outstanding innovations around the world. In 2020, Sandhi was the interim-CEO of a stealth bio startup that dealt with SARS-CoV-2 detection and mitigation. He also serves as a technical advisor to several companies and is active in the startup world.

Prior to that Sandhi worked at Intel for 20+ years in many leadership positions and was the Senior Director of Innovation/CTO/GM of a CEO-funded IOT platform startup called Light Lake at Intel. He is an inventor of world’s first true smart light bulb based and coined the term “End Node” Computing (sensors, compute, communication, management, and security capabilities – all in one end node ) and has many patents to his name. He has 40+ years of experience in high tech and is recognized as an innovator/visionary in leading the development, implementation of new products, services, and business innovations. His current focus areas are healthcare services, IOT, Smart Objects, ambient computing, smart/advanced sensors, and developing technology for the most common problems facing mankind related to clean energy, clean water, pollution, food, health, blindness, and education.

Sandhi has a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Pune, India, MS in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming, and an Executive MBA from the University of Oregon. He is a sought out speaker at many conferences worldwide. He is a founder, coordinator, and singer of a Bollywood Music Charity Group which has risen over $425,000+ over the last eleven years for the Seva Foundation (Berkeley, CA) to help restore eyesight to thousands of blind, visually impaired, and financially disadvantaged pediatric patients in rural India. Sandhi is an avid hiker, photographer, story writer, amateur astronomer and loves to travel around the world. Sandhi and his wife Anjali have lived in Beaverton since 1984 and are blessed with a handsome son and a beautiful daughter.