Before joining Silicon Road Ventures, Sid Mookerji spent 22 years building SPI into an 8-country company with over 3,000 employees serving retailers like Macy's, and he later brought that hands-on retail infrastructure experience into how he supports founders today—serving as President of TiE Atlanta, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Emory, and co-creating a non-dilutive innovation fund at Kennesaw State with his wife that backs student and alumni startups without taking ownership stakes. He often talks about commerce as something tied to Atlanta's identity, pointing to companies like Home Depot, UPS, and Delta, and through the Mookerji Foundation he also supports entrepreneurship more broadly with gifts to the Georgia Tech Foundation and KSU Foundation.