Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is a partner at True Ventures. An engineer by training, he was lucky to begin his career in a startup as founder and CTO of ONI Systems, which pioneered the use of optical switching and real-time information processing technologies. ONI Systems accomplished a successful primary and secondary public offering and was eventually acquired by Ciena, where Rohit served as SVP and CTO of Metro Networks Group.

Rohit is fascinated by many aspects of innovation and technology especially in the field of GenAI. He believes this new generation of technologies has the potential to change nearly every aspect of infrastructure and applications while also changing the very way startups are built. Rohit firmly believes that the “people part” of a startup is just as, if not more, critical to a company’s success than the technology piece of the business.

Rohit holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from India’s National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He also holds Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, where he endowed a professorship in digital communications in 2004. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the President of India at NITK’s 50th anniversary convocation.

Rohit loves helping founders with organizational design, personal growth, and being intentional about culture.