Unni Warrier

Unni(Krishnan) Warrier

Is a US-based entrepreneur, writer and futurist involved in many technology enterprises ranging from network management and packaged software to genetics-based precision medicine. He has authored many technical papers and standards, as well as works of fiction.

His business achievements have been chronicled in major publications including Forbes and the Los Angeles Times.

Early life

Born and brought up in Kerala, India to Dr. N.S. Warrier, then Principal of University College, Trivandrum, and Chinnamma Warasiar of Manjapra Variam. Unni Warrier’s early education was at the Holy Angel’s Convent, Model School and Intermediate College, all in Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), Kerala, India. He had the distinction of being the fourth ranked in the State in the final statewide exams among hundreds of thousands of examinees.

Unni Warrier then attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India for an Integrated Masters’ Degree in Physics, and thence to the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (Chennai) India for a Masters of Technology in Computer Science. He also has completed coursework towards a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Unni Warrier started working at the Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO) in Bombay, Singapore and New York, before moving to Los Angeles for his PhD studies. His later employment included Software Dynamics (now S1 Corporation), TRW (now Northrop Grumman) and System Development Corporation (now Unisys).

Technology Companies

Unni Warrier, along with his classmate Dilip Sontakey, started Warson Systems in 1984, focusing on database software for insurance companies. Although he left after two years, the company went on, through various transmutations to become E-Z Data (now Ebix), where the core technology he invented lives on.

Along with co-workers Anne Lam, John Biggar and Dan Ketcham, Unni Warrier started Netlabs in 1989 as its founder/CEO, focusing on network management for Internet systems. After several rounds of financing after he left the company, it was purchased by Seagate. Its core product, Nerve Center, which he invented, still lives on after 25 years.

Along with co-founders Anne Lam, Jonathan Tran, Art Puryear and Chiching Chang, Unni Warrier founded CyberMedia (Nasdaq "CYBR"), a provider of automatic PC service and support software, and served as its CEO from 1991 to 1998. Warrier grew the company from revenues of $5 million in early 1995 to more than $40 million in 1996. He took the company public later that year and was awarded "IPO of the Year" by Red Herring, as well as "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Technology Council of Southern California (then Software Council). In 1997, the company's revenues exceeded $70 million. Deloitte and Touche recognized CyberMedia as the fastest growing company in Los Angeles from 1993-1997. Through various acquisitions and transformations, the company is now part of Intel Corporation.

Unni Warrier was one of the charter members for The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a leading non-profit for entrepreneurship, presenting his company CyberMedia at its inaugural convention.

With his partner Anne Lam, Unni Warrier founded Kron Communications in 1998, aiming at unified communications across the Internet and voice networks for calling, messaging and conferencing. The company “had Youtube before Youtube and VoIP before phone.com”.

Aiming at the healthcare market, Unni Warrier started Healthback Systems in 2006 to address rolling up California Independent Physicians Associations (IPAs) under a common technology infrastructure, working with IPAs such as Employee Health Systems (now SynerMed).

As a technology spinoff from Healthback, Unni Warrier started Medical Crossing in 2008, which provides technology that addresses lowest priced bundled procedures for patients, providers and payers (insurance companies).

Along with other founders, Unni Warrier started Fawna Systems in 2010 as its CEO to address the capacity problem for mobile operators, pulling together demand from diverse operators such as AT&T, Korea Telecom, SingTel and others.

Unni Warrier has ventured to bring Yantra Systems, an indoor wireless company, to the India market since 2016. Yantra would deliver very low-cost bandwidth to in-building mobile networks through an innovative partnership with IIT Madras, advised by India industry luminaries.

Unni Warrier started Symptomics since 2016 in the personalized medicine field to address the complete pathway from symptoms to genomics (and other “omics”) for pharmaceuticals.

Unni also provides technology and marketing consulting to key mid-cap companies.

Writings

Unni Warrier has authored standards for Internet management for the IETF, such as the Common Management (CMOT) framework. Unni Warrier has authored several patents on technologies at his companies ranging from network management, network routing, healthcare systems, wireless network capacity and precision medicine. Unni has also written many scientific papers in prestigious journals during his career.

Unni Warrier is working on a historical fiction novel, “Yakshi” which is a political murder mystery set in the 1930s.

Personal life

Unni Warrier lives with life partner Anne Lam and a menagerie of pets including fish, turtles, cats and dogs, in the Los Angeles region of the USA.

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