Ashish Nair - Project Lead, Corporate Research at Hilti AG

Ashish Nair

Project Lead, Corporate Research at Hilti AG

I lead projects at Hilti's Corporate Research division in Liechtenstein - working closely with Hilti Venture and various Business Units, the overarching goals being technology maturity evaluation and product road-mapping.

My prior work has been in product development at start-ups in the Bay Area in the fields of augmented reality, warehouse robotics, and surgical robotics. Two of which were later acquired by Alphabet.

Outside the work sphere I like snowboarding, mountain biking, volleyball and riding motorcycles, along with the occasional jam session.

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