Advisory Board
David House
Dave House began his career in 1965 as a computer designer at Raytheon Computer and Communications Division. In 1974, House joined Intel Corp., and became general manager of the company's Microcomputer Components Division. Over the next 13 years he lead the organization that developed the company's leading microprocessor product line, including the Pentium Processor, and grew that business from $40M to $4B per year. He also managed the team that developed the highly successful "Intel Inside" marketing program, one of the most recognized brands in the world and the most successful ingredient brand ever developed.
After 22 years at Intel, House took the helm of Bay Networks as Chairman and CEO. He negotiated and led Bay Networks through its merger with Nortel and became President of Nortel Networks in 1998. From January 2001 until April 2003, Dave was Chairman and CEO of Allegro Networks. He is currently Chairman of Brocade Communications Systems. He enjoys mentoring others during his active retirement. House is also involved with numerous community organizations through the House Family Foundation and is on the boards of the Computer History Museum, The Tech and the Mountain Winery Kid's Foundation.
House has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston.
TVG Krishnamurthy
TVG has over 27 years of experience in the industry in different fields like engineering, consumer products, foods and plastics. His areas of expertise include strategic management, international and domestic marketing and manufacturing. He was VP of Confectionary business at Cadbury India and a former President at SRF – Opthal. He is a guest faculty to several management institutes. He holds a B Tech degree from IIT Chennai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
Sanjay Mashruwala
Sanjay was Group-President, Networks at Reliance Infocomm and was instrumental in setting up Reliance's foray into telecom. Currently, He is project coordinator for Reliance's Jamnagar refinery expansion. He holds a Mechanical engineering degree from IIT Bombay.
Dr. V Vinay
Prof Vinay is Chairman and CTO of Picopeta Simputers. Vinay co-invented the Simputer and is an expert in the area of Computational Complexity theory. Vinay has helped shape several key Simputer technologies. Apart from designing IML, he also implemented a prototype browser, IMLI. He also invented a novel method of text entry in to the keyboard-less Simputer, called Tapatap. An avid Linux user, Vinay was also largely responsible for much of the initial porting efforts to make Linux run on the Simputer. He holds a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science.
Ravi Narayan
Ravi is currently the Managing Director of Mentor Partners. Mentor Partners
helps entrepreneurs succeed by bringing together customers, ideas,
entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and expertise, through Mentor’s unique
intellectual and network capital. He has over 18 years of management and
engineering experience in the corporate & startup companies in the Telecom
and IT Industry. He worked at various technical and management levels for
IBM and Hughes Networks. His start-ups include American Systems
International (ASI), Nextone Communications, a global leader in the VoIP
space and Astuto Networks, an India based company specializing in Metro
switches. He is a founding member of PAN-IIT, charter member of TiE
organization and on the boards of IT and telecom companies in India. He has
BTech from IIT Madras, and MS in Industrial Engineering & MBA from
University of Southern California.
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