Leadership Team

Madhuranath R Konety is an enterprise artificial intelligence product leader and venture builder with over 25 years of experience in creating, scaling and investing in technology companies across the United States and India. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of IceCreamLabs, a Silicon Valley-based enterprise AI firm operating an AI Solutions business serving Fortune 500 customers, including Walmart, Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, and an AI Venture Studio that has incubated and scaled multiple generative AI and agentic AI companies, including Modo.ai (enterprise AI agents) and Commerceflow.ai (AI-enabled retail merchandising).

Earlier in his career, he held product leadership roles at Network General and BMC Software, and founded APTUATE. He also served as a Partner at Be Capital (Dubai/Bangalore) and Deccan Emerging Ventures (Bangalore), where he evaluated and advised on enterprise software and AI investments.

Mr. Konety is a frequent industry speaker on enterprise AI at forums such as the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Consumer Goods Forum, and advises early-stage AI companies. He holds an MSx from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Master of Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and a Bachelor of Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.

He brings to the Board extensive expertise in enterprise AI strategy, generative AI and large language model product development, global software delivery, and technology governance.