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P Sunil Krishnan, Chairman
Sunil Krishnan is the President and CEO of Confident Group, one of the fastest growing conglomerates with business inetrest across diversified verticals. Prior to Confident, he was Director (Finance), South East Asia for Hewlett Packard. In 16 years of his career at HP, he has held various positions in manufacturing, supply chain services, operations and finance gaining insight into various facets of corporate management. He started his career with Mico Bosch. Shekar G Nair, Managing Director & CEO
Shekar is Chief Executive Officer of Elina Networks. Shekar brings over 22 years of experience in the IT industry. Most recently, Shekar was part of the Asia-Pacific Sales leadership team at NetApp and was responsible for its OEM business. Prior to this Shekar was the General Manager of NetApp India Operations. Shekar co-founded Allegro Networks in California, USA and was responsible for product operations. Shekar was part of the inception team at Xylan and was instrumental in its successful IPO in 1996. Shekar started and ran Xylan's operation in India and later worked at Alcatel as Managing Director of the India operations through its acquisition of Xylan. Previously, Shekar held various individual, team lead and management roles in software development. Shekar has also been an Enterpeneur in Residence at Thomas Weisel Venture partners. Shekar has 2 USA patents in data communications and networking and holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering from NIT Trichy, India and masters in Computer Science from California State University Northridge, USA. Dr. Swami Manohar, Director
Swami Manohar is a co- founder and the CEO of PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd. After obtaining his PhD in Computer Science from Brown University he was a faculty at the University of North Carolina for two years and then was at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, between 1990 to 2005. He was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science and the Super Computer Education and research Center at the Institute. He has been a visiting faculty at Columbia University, University of Missouri and the University of Texas. While at IISc, he co-invented the Simputer, was awarded the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT, and pioneered the faculty entrepreneurship activity at IISc, which has since catalyzed similar activity in IITs and other educational institutes in India. He co - founded Strand Lifesciences (formerly Strand Genomics), and String Labs, the first academic incubating company in India. Prakash Bare, Director
Prakash Bare has held various engineering and business positions during his 15+ years in electronic design automation and design reuse industry. Most recently Prakash has been with Rambus Inc. as the head of their india operations. Prior to joining Rambus, Prakash was vice president of the IP business unit at GDA Technologies, a leading EDS and SIP company. He worked at Cadence Design Systems and Cypress Semiconductor before co-founding GDA Technologies in 1996. Dr. Chandra Pemmasani, Director
Chandra Pemmasani is a physician with a passion for business development and entrepreneurship. Chandra is a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of medicine/Sinai Hospital, Baltimore. When he was 26 (2002), he started a medical education test preparation company for medical students and residents (http://www.usmleworld.com/). Within two years of its inception, it became the global leader in online test preparation for all USMLE examinations. In March 2007, he started www.Go4Funding.com, an online network connecting entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Within a few months after the launch of Go4Funding, it attracted several thousand entrepreneurs and investors globally. |
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