ARUN RAMAMOORTHY
ARUN RAMAMOORTHY is the menmber of the Board of Directors of TeleStax, Evie Labs. He is also seed investor of Allyo & Tala Security. He is the General Partner of Pinnacle. Before that he has 8 yrs. work experience in Intel Corporation. At Pinnacle Ventures, Arun focuses on investments in mobile, internet, and enterprise, where technology shifts are disrupting the market. Arun led Pinnacle's investments and serves on the boards of Telestax, a leading open source platform that enables companies to deploy RTC applications involving voice, video, messaging and IOT and Evie, a mobile launcher with universal search, He also led Pinnacle's investment in OpsClarity that provides monitoring for modern applications and data infrastructure. Arun is currently involved with HotChalk, an educational technology provider partnering with universities to bring degrees online; Boost Media that helps source, manage, and test ad copy for paid search and Nextbit, a developer of a cloud Android phone. Some of his prior involvements include Tinyco (SGN), Pentaho (HDS), Newport Media (ATML), WiChorus (TLAB) and Zecter (MOT/GOOG).
Nanda Krish
46 years, he is the Executive Director and Group CEO Enterprise Business. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has over 19 years of experience in the field of finance and the education sector. He joined the CL Educate's Board on October 12, 2001 and was last re-appointed as a whole-time director with effect from April 01, 2017.
Arvind Nithrakashyap
Arvind Nithrakashyap is a Co-Founder & CTO of Rubrik. Before that, he was a Sr. Rocket Scientist at Rocket Fuel Inc. He has been in love with databases for a long time - two decades to be precise. Building a number of core Oracle database technologies, Arvind also co-founded the Exadata product line while at Oracle. And while he loves his tech, Arvind not just a boring techie. His passion for travel has had him taking off to travel the world for six months. For the most of his life, Arvind was pretty much like other geeks - busy building the next big technology, understanding customers and iterating products to suit their needs. What differentiates him, though, is his vision and the ability to build in a scalable and sustainable fashion.
Abde Tambawala
Abde Tambawala is Head of Business Strategy, Operations and Monetization in Atlassian. Before that, he was a Sr. Director at Simon - Kucher & Partners' Silicon Valley office. He has over 10 years of experience in B2B and B2C software industry. He has advised technology companies of all sizes, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. At Simon-Kucher & Partners, his consulting activities have focused on monetization strategies, optimizing for profitable growth and developing multi-sided marketplaces. He has used research-based methodologies to develop pricing and packaging recommendations, and has helped clients develop new licensing models to build competitive advantage. Abde received an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Raymie Stata
Raymie Stata is an Advisor of Aqfer. Before that he was the CTO at Yahoo!. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba search-based e-mail client and the SAProxy anti-spam filter, which he sold to Yahoo! in October 2004. He previously worked for Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center, where he contributed to the AltaVista search engine. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and has collaborated with the Internet Archive. Stata is an alumnus of MIT, were he received bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 1991, and a Ph.D. in 1996 under advisor John Guttag. Stata's father, Ray Stata, is founder and chairman of Analog Devices, Inc.
Umesh Sachdev
Umesh Sachdev, Co-founder, and CEO of Uniphore, is a modern-day entrepreneur with a passion for technologies that have massive societal impact. Umesh co-founded Uniphore with Ravi Saraogi to bridge the communication gap between man and machine using voice and speech. Umesh was globally recognized in 2016 as one of the ten 'Next Generation Leaders' by Time Magazine. The MIT Tech Review recognized him as one of the 'Innovators Under 35'. He has been conferred with the title of 'Innovative Entrepreneur' by the Ministry of Science and Technology's Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP). Umesh holds patents in Speech Recognition Technologies and Voice Biometrics and is the author of many technical papers.
Mani Iyer
Mani Iyer is CEO and Co-founder of Kwanzoo. Mani leads the day-to-day sales, product development, and operations of the company. Previous to Kwanzoo, he founded a software business acquired by Oracle/PeopleSoft. Mani is a serial entrepreneur; industry speaker with expertise in account-based marketing, demand generation, B2B marketing and advertising; and a startup advisor. Mani has spoken at leading industry conferences including Ad-Tech, Conversion Conference, Online Marketing Summit, DemandCon, and Startup Summit. Before that Mani was a Principal of Enterprise Catalyst Inc. He has experience over 33yrs in the several leading position of the companies like HP/Compacq, Microsoft, PeopleSoft etc.
