Yash P Talreja (born last century in South Asia or thereabouts) is a Intenet & Social Networking Technology Guru and a Respected Leader.

At the peak of his Corporate career, Talreja was a Vice President at PeopleSoft Inc. where he led the development of PeopleTools version8 which help PeopleSoft recover from the rapid market decline [Yes, it was still eventually gobbled by Oracle but that was after he had left]. Before that, he was a Senior Director of Ecommerce software development at Oracle where he led the team which invented the electronic bill payment and presentment and was awarded a US patent.

In addition, sometime over the past 20 years or so, he also managed to be part of the senior management team at Amazon, a Vice President or Senior Vice President of Products & Technology at three startups including Televoke, a Telematics startup based in San Francisco which was acquired by deCarta; Consultant to two social networking companies & a custom search company and Senior Director at a Medical Bill Review software company.

Yash Talreja also founded and leads the Lean Agile Group, a group of approximately 5,000 practitioners of the Lean Agile software development as its President; he is the President of the Consortium of several A&E related Mensa Special Interest Groups and Chair of the Medical and Health Information Systems and GeoSpatial /LBS technologies steering committees at the local Software Industry Council.

Yash received a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California and a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology. Rumors are that he received fairly decent scholarships at both places so we have to (somewhat relunctantly) conclude that he must have been a scholar or something like that.

He is a veteran of the field of Electronic Commerce, and was awarded a patent by the US Patent Office in 2003 in response to an application filed in 1999 - Yes, they spent 4 years admiring and assessing his and his co-inventor's inventions because they could not believe that a mere human can lead a team of such talented Silicon Valley geeks to come up with such great thoughts and make not one or two, or a dozen but 52 (fifty two) claims, all of which were awarded by the USPTO.

Yash Talreja is also pioneer in the emerging area of Artificial Imagination - he co-founded the Center of Artificial Imagination, an imaginative (and some say imaginary) research institute which focuses on cutting edge research in the rapidly growing field of simulation of human imagination in computer systems.

Yash Talreja is a member, senior member or fellow of the Unicode Consortium, the Web Analytic Association, Mensa, The Computer Security Institute, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Association of Computing Machinery, The Indus Entrepreneurs and the IIT Delhi Excellence Foundation.

Because of his many accomplishments and his and his and team's 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.

He currently resides on planet Earth with his wife and their two lovely daughters.