Lakshmanan, Valliappa: - Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan is an operating executive at Silver Lake focused on improving the value of portfolio companies through data and AI-driven innovation. Prior to Silver Lake, Lak was the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He is also the author of Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform, Machine Learning Design Patterns, and Practical Computer Vision all published by OReilly.