Team
Leadership
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Ambarish
GuptaFounder, CEO -
Upmanyu
MisraCo-founder, Interim CIO
Ambarish is founder of Knowlarity, Asia’s largest cloud telephony company. With 20 years of global experience in business strategy, marketing, technology and organizational effectiveness, Ambarish brings in unmatched expertise in everything SaaS, engineering, business strategy and operations. He is an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.
With a 15-year global investingexperience in M&A, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship, Upmanyuhas a Founders-first mindset, is a creative thinker and problem solver.After leadership stints at JP Morgan and Citi, he is now a successful entrepreneurand VC managing partner at Cianna Capital. His areas of interest are in new agetechnology, its trends and evolution. He received his MBA from INSEAD and M.Sc.in Computer Science from Lehigh University.
Management
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Harry
PatodiaVice President, Engineering Vector -
Jay
JungVice President, Finance Vector -
Madhukar
KumarVice President, Marketing Vector
Harry is a successful entrepreneur in Software Technologies. He has built multiple software companies from scratch. Harry worked as engineer at Intel in Silicon Valley and has Masters in Computer Science from University of Florida
Jay is an experienced finance professional with over 15 years of experience. He was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in its New York and San Francisco offices where he advised companies on their M&A and capital raising efforts, including debt and equity. Jay has executed ~$50 billion worth of transactions over his career. Prior to Goldman, Jay was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. based out of their Hong Kong office, where he advised multinational clients on strategy & corporate finance matters. Jay received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from Seoul National University in South Korea.
Madhukar is a successful entrepreneur in Public Relations and has close to 15 years of experience in the field. He has advised various clients from across the world and industries on reputation and growth led communication issues. He has done masters in business administration with a specialization in marketing.
Advisors
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Ajay
ShrivastavaSaaS Technology -
Jon
ThomasTransactions Advisory -
Rahil
RawjiNew Markets -
Rajnish
PrasadTechnology
Ajay is a business and technology executive having leadership experiences spanning from early startups and largest companies in the world. He has a deep understanding of what strategy applies to what stage of the company and how it should evolve with the growth of the company.
Ajay is “Gr Chief Product Technology Officer and Business Initiatives Officer” at HT Group. Prior to HT, Ajay was COO & CTO of Knowlarity. At OYO, as Head of Technology, he led the technology and team from scratch and powered it as the company grew to become the largest hotel chain in India in a couple of years. Earlier, Ajay was part of marquee technology companies namely Intel, Microsoft, Adobe, Expedia, LinkedIn.
Ajay occasionally blogs and shares his thoughts on technology, leadership and company culture, which are widely published and read across the world.
Ajay is 2005 graduate from IIIT Bangalore.
Advisor and MD, Quicksilver Partners
Advisor and GP, Cianna Capital
Rajnish has more than 20 years of experience in design, development and deployment of scalable, real time web based applications in cloud. He has more than ten years of experience of working as Director/Program Manager cum Architect managing a team of 20+ engineers.
He played a key role in launching of WWE streaming and HBO Now while working at MLB Advanced media which was later acquired by Disney as Bamtech.
In his current role at Netflix, he is building applications for the Studio in the Cloud.
Rajnish is a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.