Dr. Amol Sarva is an American technology entrepreneur who leads Peek and was a founder of Virgin Mobile USA.

Amol has led Peek as its founder and CEO through worldwide product launches and raised over $20 million from top venture capitalists including RRE Ventures.

Peek makes a cloud platform for smart and low cost mobile devices.

Peek's debut mobile email device won design awards and honors from Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, BusinessWeek, IDSA, Engadget, Oprah's O Magazine, USA Today, NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's This Week, NPR, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. Peek has been carried by major retailers from Target, Radio Shack, and Amazon to QVC, Wired's Pop Up Shop and Skymall.

Today Peek's cloud powers multitudes of phones, delivering mail, texts, IM, social network updates, and more cloud-based services extending past the original Peek device to a wide range of partners' devices in the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

In 2007, Amol testified in front of the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Senate advocating open access in wireless spectrum policy. He gave oral testimony before Senator Ted Stevens ("The Internet is a series of tubes"). He was profiled on C-SPAN and has written on behalf of the Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation, and served as adviser to greenfield network startup Frontline Wireless.

He's one of the original members of the Founders' Roundtable in New York, a group of 200+ venture-backed startup founders that has met monthly since 2006, and has touched dozens of VC-backed startups and many of the top founders in NYC. He has been named multiple times to the Silicon Alley 100 list of top New York entrepreneurs. He is a mentor for the NYC Seed venture capital fund's SeedStart program.

He is a creator of Cfund, a seed fund focused on Columbia.

Amol was the co-founder and SVP of Product Management for Blue Mobile until 2007, the Caribbean mobile operator Digicel's effort to create a simple prepaid wireless offering in the US, where he led partnerships with Verizon and Wal-Mart. He spent 3 years as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in New York, leaving as an Engagement Manager specializing in the telecom and tech practice.

As the second employee of Virgin Mobile USA in San Francisco in January 2000, Amol was part of the founding team. Virgin Mobile later went public on NASDAQ and was acquired by Sprint.

Amol's Ph.D. is from Stanford University (dissertation: The Concept of Modularity in Cognitive Science, advisor: Mark Crimmins) and B.A. is from Columbia University (Economics, advisor: Sidney Morgenbesser; Philosophy, advisor: Akeel Bilgrami). He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York, where he was a city, state and national champion in debate and team captain.

In Long Island City, Queens, he is the builder of an architecturally ambitious 9-story, 13-loft residential building that the New York Daily News in 2010 called "the most important new building in the borough" -- East of East. He is also the creator of the popular neighborhood blog LICNYC.com since 2002. He has a photograph in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, and collaborated on a work with the painter Tom Sanford in the collection of the museum of art at Syracuse University. He has contributed writings to Alley Insider, Salon, Strategy & Business, and BusinessWeek. Starting Fall 2011, he teaches a class for 4-6 year olds at The Queens Paideia School called "Beginner Philosophy".

His website is A.Sarva.Co