Gautam Bhargava, CEO
G.D. Ramkumar, CTO
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 twenty-one 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.
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.