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| Leadership Team:: International - Profiles |
| Name: Chandra Reddy Designation: Founder, Sage Inc. |
| Chandra M. Reddy is the Founder of Sage, Inc. He has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Sage Inc, was acquired for $241m in 2001 by Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ:GNSS).Prior to founding Sage, Mr. Reddy held several design and program management positions at Intel Corporation.Mr. Reddy received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
| Name: Purna Mohanty, HP Microsystems Inc USA Designation: Chief Executive Officer |
| As the Chief Executive Officer of HP Microsystems, Purna Mohanty brings in over 21 years of engineering and executive leadership experience in semiconductor technology companies with special emphasis on high speed interface IPs, networking and storage. Prior to joining HP Microsystems, Purna held the positions of director of product marketing, and director of operations respectively at Snowbush IP division of Gennum. He is a serial entrepreneur, and has been through successful Silicon Valley start-ups - ASIC Architect (which he had co-founded, and acquired by Gennum), Platys Communication (acquired by Adaptec), SmartSAN Networks (acquired by Gadzoox). Purna has years of experience working for Sony, LSI Logic and Philips. Purna is a member of TiE Silicon Valley, and sits on the advisory board of technology start-ups. He holds several US patents in complex area of SoC verification. Purna received a MSEE from University of Toledo, OH in 1993, and a BSEE from National Institute of Rourkela in 1988. As a part of his personal social responsibility, Purna provides leadership to high leverage and high social impact activities. He is instrumental to introduce Foundation for Excellence to his state of Odisha back in 1998. Purna conceptualized the Invest Bhubaneswar initiative in 2009, and drove the vision of Invest Bhubaneswar initiative from Silicon Valley, California to Odisha, and thus help connect businesses around the globe to the opportunities in the state of Odisha. |
| Name: Sanjib Dash Designation: Founder and President, InnoMethods Corporation |
| InnoMethods Corporation – an IT Services company with corporate office in Dublin, California, USA and offshore center in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. InnoMethods provide solutions in ERP, Dataware housing and Business Intelligence technologies. Sanjib Dash has 19 years of Management experience in IT and Operations. Before starting InnoMethods, Sanjib was the Vice President for Teledata Technology Solutions, where he played a major role in integrating the operations of seven companies in diverse business from ERP services to data centers. He started his career as management trainee with GKW Ltd in 1992 and was appointed as the Head of IT operations in 1998. He also led the spin off of GKW's MIS Dept into separate IT Services Company. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Utkal University, India an MS in Production Engineering & Management from Jadavpur University & an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management. |
| Name: Somnath Chatterjee Designation: Director Global Initiatives & Coordination, TiE Global at Santa Clara, CA |
| Somnath Chatterjee is currently Director Global Initiatives & Coordination, TiE Global at Santa Clara, CA coordinating operations at 56 locations in 13 countries and driving Entrepreneurship Best Practices, Mentoring, Global Surveys and major collaborative projects across entrepreneurial hubs. He leads all Kauffman Foundation projects including Online Mentoring, Remote Resource Sharing, Mentoring Guide, Knowledge Center and TiE Young Entrepreneurs program. Championing Microsoft's start up and growth company initiatives are also part of his ongoing projects. He came on board at TiE as Director Asia since July 2007 and led multiple global projects including Online Resource Center, Global Survey Report, Annual Report, TiELINKS (engaging global business and thought leaders) and a project on Developing Supply in ICTE Manufacturing. He supported the turnaround and scaling up of 7 Asian Chapters and the launch of 4 new ones including Tokyo and Brussels. Democratizing entrepreneurship by reaching out to diverse goegraphical regions and stakeholders continues to be his passiion. |
| He has headed several global projects and PAN India organizations and initiatives on technology ventures, start up and SMB management, global business development as well as policy advocacy. He was active member of Govt. of India’s Five Year Plans on IT Manufacturing & R&D, SIDBI (apex SMB bank) Advisory Committee and been associated with Confederation of Indian Industries' (CII) National Council on ICTE Manufacturing. |
| Name: Venktesh Shukla Designation: High Tech Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley |
| Venktesh Shukla is a high tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He is President Elect TiE Silicon Valley (www.tie.org) and the founding chairman of TiE Angels, a prominent angel investor group in Silicon Valley. He is also on the board of E.V.E. a French company (www.eve-team.com) and on the board of Vyycore (www.vyycore.com) . Shukla has had a long and varied career that includes sales, marketing, and general management experience, and a proven track record of leading companies through rapid growth. . He was most recently the CEO of Nusym Technology, and senior vice president of marketing at Magma Design Automation Inc. Before joining Magma, Shukla was CEO and co-founder of Everypath, a leader in enterprise mobile computing. Previously, he was vice president of marketing at Ambit Design Systems, acquired by Cadence Design Systems, and a marketing executive at Cadence. He holds a Masters in management from MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the President of Foundation for Excellence (www.ffe.org) which gives scholarships that enables thousands of talented but poor students in India, including hundreds from Orissa, to become doctors and engineers. |
| Name: Abhaya Kumar Pati |
| Dr. Abhay Kumar Pati is a serial Oriya Entrepreneur based in California, USA. He is the founder and CEO of Biotech Ayur, Balasore, Orissa, India. Dr. Pati is also the founder and CEO, Best Nutrition Products, Inc., CA, USA. He was born in Basantapur, a small village in the Balasore District of Orissa State in India. Dr. Pati is the grandson of late Pandit Kaviraj Jadunath Satapathy, who had inspired him to study ayurvedic medicine. Dr.Pati received his degree in integrated medicine, both in Ayurvedic Medicine and Allopathic Medicine from the J.B. Roy State Ayurvedic Medical College(Asthanga Ayurvedic College, Kolkata University, West Bengal, India), one of the oldest and prestigious Ayurvedic Institutions in India. Dr. Pati has been living in the U.S.A. for almost 30 years. Dr. Pati has traveled extensively all over the world, and conducts his businesses in various countries. |
| Name: Sushant Patnaik |
| Over the years, Mr. Patnaik has founded and incubated multiple companies in the computer software and hardware arena spanning several geographies. He built CMOS Technology, a Silicon Valley hardware start up in early nineties with revenues over $350 million, which later acquired by Formosa group in 1994. He had started Cmos Soft in software field, Cmos chips in chip design, Concio in healthcare product and solution, Audasis in healthcare KPO, Schoolcity in internet infrasture for education. In the last couple of years he has been building companies in the emerging market like India including companies such as Azilon in Enterprise Process Governance space and Quantaz in the telecom sector. He has invested in many Silicon Valley technology start up companies. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and MBA from University of Pennsylvania. |
| Name: Hara Mohanty Designation: Co-founder, Sambaash Pte Ltd, Singapore |
| Hara co-founded Sambaash in 2008, a leading Enterprise Social Media Company based out of Singapore and USA. He is currently involved in mentoring start up in Singapore as well as assisting business from India to set up regional office in Singapore for expansion to ASEAN Countries. Hara has been holding senior positions in Business and Financial management for leading corporate in India and South East Asia, including the role of the Chief Financial Officer with Sodexo India. Hara is a Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Since 1995 and also Charter Member of Rotary E Club of Singapore. For more info visit www.sambaash.com and www.rotaryeclubofsingapore.org. |
| Name: Hare Patnaik Designation: President and CTO, HP Microsystems Inc., Michigan, USA |
Mr. Hare Patnaik is the founder President and CTO of HP Microsystems Inc since 1984. With more than 30 years of experience, Hare is an authority in the architecture and designing of embedded systems for automobiles – specializing in Anti-lock Braking Systems, Computer-aided Vehicle Diagnostics, Navigation Systems, Head Up Display, Collision Avoidance Steering Systems. He was an integral part of GM’s R&D team for several key areas. During 2001-2003, he was the chief engineer at Trip Master Corporation, and was instrumental for significant revenue of the company through the commercialization of the data acquisition computers. In 1996, Hare was involved in the design of the Hertz’s popular ‘Never Lost’ navigation system. In 1991, he was the chief architect for “Travtek” – a joint venture between private (GM, AAA, Avis) and public (Florida Department of Transportation and NHTSA). Hare’s ingenuity had helped NUMMI Fremont and Saturn Tennesse to solve electrical production problems. |
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