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About
Board of Directors
 Raj Atluru |
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Raj Atluru is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he serves on the boards of Great Point Energy, Konarka Technologies, SeventyMM, PAR3 Communications, Ping Identity, and Solicore. In addition, he led the firm's investments in EnerNOC, CoalTek, Cerox, Miartech, Pantero, SOA Software, and Roving Planet. Previous investments include ViaFone which was acquired by Extended Systems (XTND).
Mr. Atluru currently focuses on emerging clean technologies, business and consumer services and wireless technologies and he has over 13 years of venture capital, private equity and leveraged finance experience both domestically and in emerging markets with a specific focus on India. As one of the leading venture capitalists focused on the CleanTech sector, Mr. Atluru is frequently cited in leading industry and national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sierra Club Monthly, SiliconIndia, Nanoinvestor News and the Venture Capital Journal. Mr. Atluru also spent three years with TL Ventures where he focused on early stage software, wireless communications and energy technologies. In addition, Mr. Atluru worked in the Leveraged Finance and Asian Corporate Finance groups at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Mr. Atluru received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Stanford University where he taught the solar and wind energy lab and was a full time research assistant on the Waste Isolation Pilot Project for Sandia National Labs (Department of Defense Nuclear Repository Study). In addition, he received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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| Mohan Lakhamraju |
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Mohan Lakhamraju is a Managing Director at Tiger Global Management, a New York based investment firm. He heads the firm’s office in Mumbai, India. Prior to joining Tiger Global, Mr. Lakhamraju was an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a premier Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley, California, where he focused on India related investments. Earlier in his career, he was a founding member of Stratify, Inc, a technology-enabled services company based in Mountain View, California.
Mr. Lakhamraju received a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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| Rajesh Jain |
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Rajesh Jain did his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1988, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York in 1989. He worked at NYNEX Science and Technology for 2 years before returning to India in 1992.
Rajesh launched IndiaWorld in 1995 and it was acquired by Satyam Infoway in November 1999 for US$ 115 million in one of Asia's largest Internet deals. Today IndiaWorld is one of the largest collection of India-centric websites, comprising Samachar, Khel, Khoj and Bawarchi.
Rajesh's current work and investments are focused around thin clients and mobiles as "teleputers", service-based computing, multimedia/broadband/wireless world, two-way web, in emerging markets like India as first markets. Rajesh is Managing Director of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd, a software company, based in Mumbai, India. Rajesh has co-founded Novatium, Seraja and Rajshri Media. He is also an investor and on the Board of Midas and n-Logue.
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| Dr. Syed Zaidi |
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Dr. Syed A R Zaidi, after teaching philosophy at universities in America and India, retired from Delhi University a few years ago. He was an investor in the secondary market for over two decades, mainly in pharma and information technology companies, and is the primary angel investor in A.Little.World, the precursor of mChek.
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| Sanjay Swamy |
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Sanjay Swamy is Chief Executive Officer at mChek, responsible for the entire operations of the company and scaling mChek to support customers across the globe.
Prior to mChek, Sanjay was General Manager of Ketera India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kleiner Venture backed Ketera Inc., a leading provider of on-demand eProcurement and Spend management solutions. The India operations were setup by Sanjay from scratch and today have a high-end team of about 100+ employees. Prior to joining Ketera, Sanjay also setup and ran India operations for mPortal, a Virginia-based startup in the Wireless Data services arena. In addition, Sanjay has worked for 12 years in Silicon Valley, holding senior marketing and business development positions in the online/mobile content at Portal Software, Xerox PARC and in embedded systems at Integrated Systems (now Wind River).
Sanjay has an MS in Aeronautics from University of Washington, Seattle, a higher studies diploma in Avionics from France’s National Aerospace School (Sup-Aero) and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
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Gajendra Nagpal |
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Mr. Gajendra Nagpal is the Founder & CEO of Unicon India, a leading Investment Solutions company in India. A management graduate by qualification, Mr. Nagpal brings with him over 16 years of experience in the stock market. Before joining Unicon in 2004 he has served at senior positions for 5 years with Kotak securities at a regional level and Indiabulls securities for 4 years at national level assignments. Mr. Nagpal brings with him the rich experience of building a retail broking network. He is a familiar face on the electronic media and is well respected in the broking industry for his stock market expertise.
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