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Who has joined our board?

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More than the money, IAN funding has given us some wonderful people in our board and as advisors, who will help us take the company to the next level.

So, introducing our new board members

Sharad Sharma is an EIR with Canaan Partners. Most recently he was the CEO of Yahoo! India R&D. He has over 23+ years of experience in the internet, enterprise software and wireless infrastructure sectors.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was involved in buyout activities focused on taking mid-sized software product companies private. Previously, he was the India General Manager and corporate Vice President of Product Operations at Symantec (formerly VERITAS) and was responsible for the turnaround of the VERITAS operations in India. He was earlier a co-founder and CEO of Teltier Technologies, a New Jersey based wireless infrastructure start-up that became the leader in the Presence and Availability Management space and is now part of Cisco. Sharad has managed product development teams at Lucent Technologies both in US and in India. He also setup AT&T’s, and later Lucent’s, R&D operations in India in mid-90s.

Sharad is passionate about cloud computing, and about making product development succeed in India, both for MNCs as well as for domestic players. He chairs the NASSCOM Product Forum, actively mentors startups, and speaks frequently on industry issues. He is also a long-standing member of the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering.

Sharad examines the transformation challenges facing the industry in his blog Orbit Change Conversations.

Saumya Meattle has extensive experience in starting and running technology companies in the Internet space in India.

He founded Module One in 1998. Module One is an offshore software development company which offer solutions such as website design & development, website management, web application development and IT staff augmentation. Over the years, the company has managed hundreds of web development projects for global clients such as Honda, P&G, Microsoft, Oracle, Ricoh, GE, Fujitsu, Hewitt Associates, EMC, British Airways etc.

Saumya’s passion is internet product development. Most recently, he has led the ideation & development of http://www.DriveInside.com, an auto website dedicated to the Indian market.

He manages an investment portfolio comprising of publicly traded stocks in India and also invests in startup companies.


Filed under: Announcements Tagged: Aurus Network, Board Members, IAN, Indian Angel Network, Mentors, Saumya Meattle, Sharad Sharma, Team

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