Smita G. Bagla is the past President of the TiE Socal Chapter for 2018 and 2019. An entrepreneur multiple times over, Smita is CEO of Aligned Strategies LLC, a product strategy firm for Fortune 2000 corporations and well-funded startups. She is also the Managing Partner at Amritt, Inc., a management consulting firm. Smita is a serial entrepreneur. Aligned Strategies assists corporations in leveraging the power of machine learning and of gamification, IoT and Business Intelligence for user behavior analytics.