Gautam Bhargava, CEO
Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri, General Partner, NEA
Rajeev Motwani, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University.
G.D. Ramkumar, CTO
Tasha Seitz, Partner, JK&B Capital
Gautam is co-founder and CEO of SnapTell, and has been part of teams building innovative software solutions for over twenty years. Most recently, Gautam was co-founder, CTO & VP Engineering of Vialto Corp., a venture funded company acquired by Cisco in 2004. Prior to that, Gautam was at Webvan Group, as a member of the Platform Architecture Board. Prior to Webvan, Gautam was part of the founding team at TimesTen Performance Software (acquired by Oracle), a high-performance, main-memory SQL-database company. Previously, Gautam held senior kernel-engineering positions at IBM Silicon Valley Lab and Silicon Graphics.
Gautam is a co-inventor on several granted patents in the area of data mining and database technology and has published papers in leading database journals and conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, TKDE, etc. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, NEA
Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA board memberships include NEA-IndoUS Ventures, RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, Teracent, and WeatherBill. Prior NEA board memberships include PortAuthority (NASDAQ: WBSN). Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, a position he assumed following Juniper's acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 17 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry. He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Provider Services, Kittu was responsible for product development, operations and business development. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects. Kittu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a M.S. in Operations Research from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Rajeev Motwani, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Rajeev is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases, data mining, and data privacy, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books -- Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001.
Rajeev has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Rajeev serves on various industry boards and advisory boards, including Adchemy, Agitar, CastTV, Coral8, DotEdu Ventures, Fatdoor, Flarion, Fraudwall, Google, Jaxtr, Jumpstartup Ventures, Mimosa Systems, Neopath Networks, Revenue Science, SnapTell, Tizor, uGenie, and Xambala. He is a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) and on the board of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).
G D Ramkumar (Ram) is co-founder and CTO of SnapTell. Ram has over fifteen years of R&D experience developing scalable software systems. Most recently, Ram was a Senior Software Architect in the CTO Office of McDATA responsible for the company's overall technical software strategy. He joined McDATA through the successful acquisition of startup Sanera Systems, where he led the system software architecture. Sanera developed a market leading high end Fibre Channel Director for the SAN market that became McDATA's flagship product and is now deployed at the heart of thousands of data centers world wide.
Prior to Sanera Systems, Ram held senior roles at Hitachi Research Labs and Morgan Stanley where he developed innovative technologies in data mining and business intelligence. He has more than nine patents pending, over fifteen research papers at international journals and conferences, and two recent IETF RFC documents to his credit. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in the areas of Geometric Algorithms and Robotics. Ram holds a President of India gold medal for the best undergraduate academic record at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Tasha Seitz, Partner, JK&B Capital
Tasha joined JK&B Capital in 1997 and has focused on the software sector, working with companies such as Interwoven, Andromedia and Synchrologic. Prior to joining JK&B, Tasha was an information technology industry analyst at Gartner Group advising Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients in their implementation of technology over a five-year strategic planning horizon. She worked in the areas of Local Area Communications and Applications Development & Management before founding Gartner's Multimedia service in 1993. While at Gartner, Tasha advised on electronic publishing and led efforts to deliver research to Gartner's clients in multimedia.
Tasha earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wellesley College and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tasha is on the Board of Directors of Bluefire Security Technologies, Novarra, Trusted Network Technologies, Reactivity, Baynote and SnapTell.