1) Sreekanth Ravi :
 | The September issue of Fortune magazine featured Sreekanth Ravi in 35th place (WEALTH $131 million AGE 37) of the 40 richest people under 40. The magazine ranking the 40 richest - after last year's inclusion of innovators, influencers, and entrepreneurs along with the ten richest. Sreekanth Ravi, SonicWALL former Chairman and Founder. (NASDAQ: SNWL), founded Code Green Networks in 2004. Sreekanth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received the Young Alumni Award, from the University of Illinois in 2003. Sreekanth was honored for his entrepreneurial leadership in co-founding the Internet security appliance company, and establishing it at number one market share position worldwide. |
2) Sudhakar Ravi:
 | The September issue of Fortune magazine featured Sudhakar Ravi in 29th place (WEALTH $137.1 million AGE 39) of the 40 richest people under 40. The magazine ranking the 40 richest - after last year's inclusion of innovators, influencers, and entrepreneurs along with the ten richest. Sudhakar Ravi, SonicWALL former Chief Technology Officer and Founder. (NASDAQ: SNWL), founded Code Green Networks in 2004. Sudhakar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received the Young Alumni Award, from the University of Illinois in 2003. Sudhakar was honored for his entrepreneurial leadership in co-founding the Internet security appliance company, and establishing it at number one market share position worldwid. |
3) Katragadda Lalitesh :
| Google Senior Member of Technical Staff (Co-founder of Google India) joint center head for Google’s R&D. |
4) Srinivas. Doddapaneni:
| Dr. Sri Doddapaneni is an engineering manager for Intel Software Development Products at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for common infrastructure for performance, threading, and quality tools. He started with Intel in 2000 and for the first four years led software development tools for Intel cellular and handheld processors. He has over 15 years of experience developing compilers, and various tools such as debuggers, profilers, emulators and runtime libraries. Sri holds a B.Tech.(Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, both in computer science. He has published reviewed research papers in various leading conferences in the areas of compiler optimizations, distributed systems, and tools for embedded systems. Sri was granted three patents in distributed systems and has four patent applications pending in the area of software tools and computer architecture. Sri serves as the Project Lead for the TPTP Platform Project and is a member of the PMC. Sri is also a member of the TPTP Architecture Group |
5) Valluri.Rao:
| Valluri Rao is an Intel Fellow and Director of Analytical and Microsystems Technology in Intel's Technology and Manufacturing group. Rao is currently responsible for the research and development of novel Microsystems and Micromechanical (MEMS) applications for Intel. Rao holds 46 issued patents, 3 Intel achievement awards and has published more than 20 external and 10 internal papers. Rao received Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Jesus College, Cambridge University, U.K.. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Engineering Department Cambridge from 1979 - 1983. |
6) Satya Nadella:
| Satya Nadella is Corporate Vice President responsible for leading the Product Group within Microsoft Business Solutions. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 and has held a variety of marketing, product development and general management roles. Before taking on his current role, Nadella was responsible for launching and leading Microsoft bCentral, the leading Internet service providing Web presence, communications, customer marketing and e-commerce tools to small businesses.Before that, he was General Manager for the Commerce Platforms Group and led the development efforts for Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server. Nadella was also a key member of several advanced technology incubation efforts inside Microsoft, including interactive television (ITV) and digital rights management (DRM). Nadellas first assignment at Microsoft was in the Windows Developer Relations group, where he was a program manager. |
7) Prasad Vellanki:
| Prasad Vellanki, Vice President of Engineering/ NetContinuum As Vice President of Product Development at VXtreme, Prasad pioneered streaming media technologies for the Web. After Microsoft's acquisition of VXtreme, he successfully integrated VXtreme Web Theater software into the Windows Media product line. Prior to that, Prasad held several product development positions in the Real-Time Networking Group at Integrated Systems, Inc., including managing the development of pSOSystem networking products. Prasad has earned five patents and holds a MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a BSEE degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India. |
8) Divakar Maddipatla :
| Divakar Maddipatla, Corporate Vice President & Head – Semiconductor Practice at HCL Technologies. |
9) Ravi C Adusumalli:
| Ravi C Adusumalli, Board of Directors of Intelli Group. Mr. Adusumalli joined Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) in early 2002 and is currently a General Partner and Head of SAIFs India Operations. Prior to joining SAIF, Mr. Adusumalli was an Associate Partner with Mobius Venture Capital, a $1.25 billion early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He previously worked at Credit Suisse First Boston as an Associate and with Wasatch Funds, a mutual fund with over $9 billion in assets that specialized in small cap and micro cap companies listed on US and international exchanges. Mr. Adusumalli graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Government. Mr. Adusumalli serves on the board of directors of SAIFs investments in Sify, SEVEN Networks, Investsmart, and Intelligroup. |
10) Rao Vellanki:
| Rao Vellanki, Director of Offshore Operations, Best Buy Co., Chennai, India Prior to his appointment as Director of Offshore Operations in India, Mr. Vellanki was the Director of Information Services encompassing Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Management (EDM), and Alternate Sourcing at Best Buy headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN. Mr. Vellanki possesses a BEEE and MEEE from Andhra University, India, and an MBA from the Carlson School of Management in Minnesota. Best Buy Co. (BBY) is the #1 distributor of consumer electronics, entertainment hardware, software, appliances, and complex solutions with revenues exceeding $20 Billion. |
11) Suresh Chitturi:
| Suresh Chitturi is a senior research engineer and project manager at Nokia Research Center. His involvement with the JCP started mid-2003 when he became an active member of the Expert Group for JSR 226, Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME. He was also the editor of JSR 226 specification and played an important role in synchronizing Mobile SVG specification between JCP and W3C. Suresh is now the Spec Lead of JSR 226, which includes the responsibility of leading the diverse Expert Group, developing the Reference Implementation (RI) and Test Compatibility Kit (TCK), and possible future work with respect to J2ME and SVG mobile technologies. For the past few years at Nokia, Suresh has focused on developing mobile vector graphics technologies and solutions, particularly SVG. Suresh also represents Nokia in several high profile mobile Standards Organizations (SDO) such as W3C, 3GPP, and OMA. |
12) Kolluri.Krishna:
| Executive Vice President & General Manager Juniper Networks - Security Products Group . |
13)Dr. Prakash Challa:
| CEO of Nipuna Services Limited)/ Satyam BPO subsidary Before joining Nipuna, Dr. Challa was with Satyam as Senior Vice President in the Global Solutions Group. Prior to that, he held several senior management positions in the Information Technology industry. While with IMR Global / CGI in US (since 1993), he held a number of senior management positions and was responsible for business development and operations. Starting his career with Wipro Information Technology in 1985 he later joined Tata Consultancy Services and held a number leadership positions in Quality, Information Systems and Technology Planning groups. Dr Prakash Challa has a Ph.D in Software Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. |
14) Anvitha Ramineni:
| Anvitha Ramineni is a Software Engineer and works at Intel Corporation. Through the 4 years that she's worked at Intel, she was the founder and President of the Intel Toastmasters Club in 2003 and she currently serves as the co-chair of the Women at Intel Network-Santa Clara, a 350-member employee group. She was a marketing co-lead for the highly successful IWL Leadership Summit in Boston this year. Anvitha is a certified life coach with an emphasis on issues faced by South Asians in the US. She is a high spirited, motivated South Asian woman and is passionate about entrepreneurship and women's empowerment. |
15) Dr. Rao R. Tummala:
| Rao R. Tummala is a chaired professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech. Previously, he was an IBM Fellow at IBM East Fishkill Packaging Laboratory in New York. Dr. Tummala was awarded 21 U.S. patents, made 45 other inventions, published 60 papers in professional society journals, and presented over 70 keynote, invited, and other talks throughout the world. Tummala received nine IBM Invention Awards, three IBM Divisional Awards, one IBM Corporate Award, and three IBM Publication Awards. He also received the John Wagnon Technical Achievement Award from ISHM, a Best Paper Award from IEEE, the Engineering Materials Award from the American Society for Metals, the Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding service in engineering from the University of Illinois, and the David Sarnoff Award from IEEE. The Daniel C. Hughes, Jr. Memorial Award was awarded to Rao R. Tummala, Ph.D., for his dedication to IMAPS and the microelectronics industry. Dr. Tummala is being honored for his significant technical contributions to IMAPS in the fields of Materials and Processes for Advanced Ceramic Packaging, Flip Chip Technology and Integrated Passives; commitment to the development of students in the industry; and commitment to the Society in the capacity of President, Technical Vice President, and International Vice President, advancing both the Technical Scope and the Membership Programs of the Society. in the year 2002. |
16) Madhu Yarlagadda:
| Madhu Yarlagadda, Director of Engineering, Communications Products, Yahoo!. Madhu is the Senior Engineering Director for Yahoo! Messenger where he is responsible for real-time communication over IP- including Voice (VoIP) and Video. He is charged with identifying, designing and developing next generation, real-time communication applications and platforms. In this role, Madhu can be accredited with developing the United Kingdom’s BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger and the recent deployment of high-quality PC-to-PC calling and voicemail in Yahoo! Messenger. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Madhu served as founder, president and chief operating officer of MyQuest, Inc., a unified messaging company acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. He also served as co-founder, chief technical officer and chief operating officer of ISSG, an enhanced telecommunications application provider. |
17) Raghu R. Kodali:
| Raghu R. Kodali is a consulting product manager and SOA evangelist for Oracle Application Server. He has worked in the software industry for over 11 years as a developer, consultant, and presales engineer in emerging technologies. He is responsible for J2EE features with expertise in SOA technologies like EJB, Web Services, and application development frameworks. Raghu has been the lead product manager for EJB design-time features in Oracle JDeveloper since the EJB 1.1 specification. His current area of focus is evangelizing service-oriented infrastructure and implementing service-oriented applications. |
18) Rama Krishna Koganti:
| Rama Krishna Koganti — Automotive Body Engineering Technical Expert, Ford Motor Company College of Technology Executive Board Eastern Michigan University/ MI |
19) Dr.Nag Patibandla:
| Dr.Nag Patibandla, Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology. Dr. Patibandla is a distinguished energy expert with rich state and global experience in academia, industry, and government. |
20) Swaroop Adusumilli:
| Swaroop Adusumilli, V.P Engineering, co-founder Tallika. Prior to founding Tallika, Mr. Adusumilli was a co-founder and lead designer for Corrent’s silicon solutions. While at Corrent, Mr. Adusumilli designed and implemented major critical sub-systems of Corrent’s silicon solutions – including IPSEC/SSL/TLS protocol security core, DMA/Streaming bus interfaces(PL3)/AHB, MIPS sub-system and PCI/PCIX implementation. Prior to joining Tallika, Mr. Adusumilli held senior engineering lead positions at Conexant. While at Conexant, he architected and developed multiple DSL/Modem/GSM SOC chipsets. Before Conexant, Mr. Adusumilli was a senior staff engineer at VLSI Technology and developed multiple system controller and peripheral controller chipsets for Intel's 386, 486, Pentium and Digital Alpha microprocessors. Mr. Adusumilli holds multiple patents in high performance ASIC/SOC digital designs. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engr.from University of Louisiana. |
19) Ven_chava:
| Ven Chava, Director, Network Strategy and Analysis, Linux -- The Third Wave Mr. Chava was responsible for service layer development covering a variety of wireless applications, including push to talk, messaging services, portals, device management, location, and other services such as handset software development at Nextel. Mr. Chava also worked at Mobile365 Inc. as their chief architect responsible for launching world's first large-scale, IP-based SMS interoperability network that has contributed to the SMS text-message revolution in North America. |
20) Raj Kumar Velagapudi:
 | Rajkumar Velagapudi - President & Co- founder: Innova Solutions Inc., As President, Raj is at the helm of affairs inclusive of Strategic Planning, Development, and Sales & Marketing. Raj has in excess of 15 years of experience in the IT industry. During his tenure at one of the leading systems integrators, Raj was one of the Senior Management members responsible for expanding the business in the Western U.S. region. Raj holds a B.S degree in Computer Science from the University of Madras, India. |
21) Krishna Yarlagadda:
| Krishna Yarlagadda, Founder, President & CEO of HelloSoft, Inc., Krishna has a B.S and MS in Electrical Engineering. As the President & CEO of HelloSoft, Krishna is responsible for setting HelloSoft's mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the company's overall growth. Krishna held key management and technical positions in the SPARC processor division of Sun Microsystems and was a key player in successful launch of four SPARC processors (UltraSPARC I & II, SuperSPARC I & II). |
22) Babu Mandava:
| Babu Mandava, President & Co-founder of Beecem Communications/ USA. Mr. Mandava obtained MSEE from Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur. He holds 5 US patents and publications in the area of design for testability and fault tolerant processor design. Babu Mandava has over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding Beceem Babu was a co-founder of Centillium Communications, a semiconductor company well known for product innovations in ADSL and VOIP areas. |
23) Suneil Mandava :
 | Suneil Mandava, is the Founder President & CEO of Mobile Aspects, Inc. Mr. Mandava is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Mr. Mandava also has performed research at the National Institutes of Health in the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. Most recently, before starting the company, Mr. Mandava was a project manager at Accenture in the company's High Tech practice. |
24) Rao Cherukuri:
 | Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Phoenix Technologies: Rao Cherukuri is currently VP Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Phoenix. Prior to joining Phoenix Rao was a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Rao co-founded three companies and held responsibilities in many different executive roles as CEO, CTO. Prior to joining Phoenix, Rao was Co-founder/Chairman/CTO at Euclid. |
25) Sri Myneni:
| Sri Myneni, CEO, President and Co-Founder Knoah Solutions Inc., Mr. Myneni has more than 14 years of senior management experience with major corporations in diverse areas like Enterprise Database Management, Secure Networking, CRM, and eCRM with major emphasis in Customer Management, Product Management, Business Development and Software Development. Prior to co-founding Knoah, he was VP of Strategic Customers and Alliances for eGain, where he played a key role in signing multi-million dollar deals with companies including AOL, Schwab, AT&T, Verizon and 3Com. Additionally, he was instrumental in growing eGain from a fledgling company to the eCRM market leader with more than 800 employees. Mr. Myneni holds an MBA from ThunderBird, an MSCS from ASU, and a BSCS from Nagarjuna University. |
26) Venu Myneni:
| Venu Myneni, is serving as the President and CEO of Radiant Systems since 1995. Venu Previously worked as an engineer, marketing executive, programmer and Manager with various organizations and has over 20 years of experience. Venu has served on the Board of New Jersey Technology Council and is a Co-Chairman of CIO council. He received a Masters in Engineering from City College of New York (CUNY), New York and Bachelors in Engineering from Andhra University, India. |
27) Roshan Gudapati:
| Roshan Gudapati is director of product strategy for Network Media Platforms in the Media Platforms and Services Group of Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.). |
28) Ashwani Jasti:
| Ashwani Jasti, is CEO and President of CAMO Group. Prior to joining CAMO, Ashwani was the President of BIT Tech where, he was responsible for building the company into a multi-million dollar e-commerce development and systems integration firm, with a staff of over 200 consultants. Earlier in his career, Ashwani was a Software Consultant to AT&T and NASDAQ. Ashwani Jasti received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, from Andhra University in India in 1992 and an M.S. in Computer Science from City University of New York (CUNY). |
29) Chand Akkineni:
| Mr Chand Akkineni is a dynamic entrepreneur and is the founder of SoftPro Systems Ltd., SoftPros Inc., World Online, Inc. based in Atlanta, USA and SoftPro Technologies (P) Ltd. Mr. Chand is known for bringing creative business models. Prior to SoftPro, Mr. Chand held several positions with Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai for 12 years. At the time of leaving the organization he was holding the position of Regional Manager of TCS in USA. Chand K. Akkineni is also President of Capricorn Systems Inc., He is the present president of the Atlanta chapter of the business group TiE Indus Entreprenuers. He is a postgraduate in Computer Science from IIT, Mumbai with MBA degree from Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA |
30) Dr.Vamsi Boppana :
| Vice President of Engineering & Co-founder, Zenasis. Prior to founding Zenasis, Dr. Boppana was with the Advanced CAD Research group at the Fujitsu Laboratories of America. Vamsi has 5 patents pending and over 30 publications, including a best-paper award. Dr. Boppana received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign in 1997. He also received the Van Valkenburg fellowship award at the University of Illinois for excellence in research and the Intellectual Property Contribution award at Fujitsu Laboratories of America. He has chaired and served on several industry sessions and program committees. |
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