Passionate about autonomous & connected vehicles cyber security emerging market, evangelizing and building innovative solutions solving customer problems. Actively engaged with customers to get new business and addressing their requirements. Successfully led many complex projects in different domains through the complete product life-cycle. Vishal worked with Symantec, a global leader in cyber-security for 15 years. During the tenure with Symantec, he provided his thought leadership to many industry leading enterprise products. He was involved in many innovation forums and represented in the Symantec's patent filter committee to build and protect organization's IP. Filed 15+ patents with US PTO and many trade secrets & IP publications in different domains including IoT, Connected/In-Vehicle Embedded Security, De-duplication, Cloud and Information Availability. Participated in many innovation forums and member of organization's patent filter committee.