Joseph Olassa is the co-founder and CEO of Nuivio Ventures Inc. a disruptive new model to Think, Build & Scale software companies. Nuivio brings together an ecosystem of enterprises, investors and entrepreneurs to grow these companies in the North America and European markets. Nuivio’s model is co-developed with Jaideep Prabhu, Professor at University of Cambridge and leverages Frugal Innovation principles. Nuivio’s portfolio companies include: 1. Ignitho – A digital product engineering company which was bootstrapped and grown to $1m annuity revenue within 3 years of operations, and is on target to get to $10m annuity revenue by 2022. Joseph played the CEO role from inception and is a co-founder. 2. Piqual - A digital marketing company with a model that assures lead generation for enterprises & startups. Piqual is on target to get to $250k annuity revenue within year 1 of operations and has the pipeline to get to $1m annuity revenue. Joseph plays the interim CEO role for Piqual. 3. iS3Talk – An intranet portal product for employees & partners, its being scaled up as a Remote Workplace SaaS product with a target of $1m annuity revenue. Joseph brings a track record of two decades of fast paced business growth in the Software Industry across USA, Europe and Asia. Prior to Nuivio Ventures, he was with Mindtree for close to 14 years and was part of the core team that grew the Europe & US businesses through multi-million dollar contracts, besides kick-starting Mindtree’s Middle East business. He is also an early advocate of software product start-ups and was a mentor at Startup Village.