Aneesh Kothari is vice-president of marketing for Systel, Inc. and has led the department for the past 10 years. He heads Systel's product management and development with a major focus on rugged AI computing, with the latest example being the successful development of Kite-Strike, a fully rugged Jetson Xavier-based embedded computer, in 2020. He has extensive experience in the computer hardware industry and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas.