The Network
netrii is a lab where domain experts and AI turn deep knowledge into standalone ventures. No junior associates, no account managers — just senior practitioners in two roles.
Venture leads are actively building revenue-generating knowledge products inside the lab. The advisory circle is the bench of senior sages who sharpen every venture's thinking.
Venture Leads
Building the lab's ventures — from personalized caregiver guidance to deep-tech advisory.
Arun Batchu
Founder & Principal Advisor
I've spent over 30 years building, leading, and advising on technology at every level. Most recently, I served as VP Analyst at Gartner, helping software engineering leaders navigate AI, development practices, and organizational change. Before that, as VP of Advanced Technologies at UnitedHealth Group, I established R&D centers that incubated business innovations including applied AI. At Best Buy, I served as Director of Technology, driving digital product management and technology strategy.
www.shilpiworks.com
Care CompassRick Tanler
Venture Lead, Care Compass & BI Pioneer
Rick Tanler is a serial software entrepreneur, business intelligence pioneer, and thought leader currently focused on the intersection of human wisdom and artificial intelligence. With over 35 years of experience, he is best known for founding and leading Information Advantage, Inc., a company that defined the early landscape of data warehousing and business analytics.
knowledgeadvantage.net
Deep-Tech AdvisorySharat Batra, PhD
Venture Lead — Storage, Digital Twins & Quantum Advisory
Sharat Batra is a senior technologist and systems architect with over four decades of experience designing, scaling, and delivering complex hardware and data-driven systems in high-reliability environments. His career spans foundational work in magnetic and semiconductor materials, large-scale data storage architectures, AI-driven manufacturing optimization, and emerging quantum computing systems—bridging first-principles physics with real-world product execution.
linkedin.com/in/sharatbatra
Advisory Circle
Senior experts who guide the lab's ventures — each with a deep practice of their own.
David Quimby
Advisory Circle & Systematic Innovation Expert
David Quimby is a patented inventor, entrepreneur, and principal at Innovation Radiation, where he specializes in systematic innovation, experimental design, and technology forecasting. In a career spanning several decades, David has practiced and innovated at the forefront of human-computer interaction and Web architecture.
innovationradiation.com
Dan McCreary
Advisory Circle & AI Education Visionary
Dan McCreary is a pioneering force in AI-powered education and one of the world's leading practitioners of Claude Code Skills for building intelligent textbooks. He is revolutionizing how teaching is done and learning is accomplished by helping educational organizations cut the costs of building free, interactive intelligent textbooks by 100x.
dmccreary.github.io/dmccreary
Susan (Sue) Hamre
Advisory Circle & Enterprise Sales Strategist
Sue Hamre is a strategic sales leader and enterprise advisor who spent 27 years at Gartner building C-level relationships across Healthcare and Life Sciences — one of the most complex and regulated sectors in enterprise technology. Trained originally as an architect at the University of Pretoria, she brings a rare visual and structural lens to problem-solving: identifying the root cause of a client's challenge rather than addressing symptoms, and designing comprehensive solutions that align technology investment to business outcomes.
www.linkedin.com/in/susanhamre
Built on Talent Density
Small, high-caliber networks outperform large, bureaucratic organizations. Every venture is led by a senior practitioner and sharpened by the advisory circle — never handed to an account manager.
The network in action
These experts don't just advise — they publish, build, and operate. Here's where their work lives.