Team


Shirish Nadkarni, CEO and Chief Roaster

Shirish Nadkarni is a successful entrepreneur who is passionate about building great consumer services. As founder and CEO of TeamOn Systems , Shirish led a team that built a unique consumer wireless e-mail platform that is in use today by over 2 million BlackBerry users. TeamOn Systems was acquired by RIM in 2002 for its innovative work which formed the basis for RIM's highly successful launch into the consumer space as the BlackBerry Internet E-mail service.

Prior to RIM and TeamOn Systems, Shirish was a senior executive at MSN where he successfully drove the product and business strategy that catapulted MSN.com from ninth place to among the Web's top three portal sites. While at MSN, he personally orchestrated the acquisition of Hotmail and partnership with Inktomi Corporation to jump start Microsoft's entry into the two largest internet application categories - E-mail and Search respectively.

Shirish holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Besides work, Shirish loves to hold pancake breakfasts and barbeques for his co-workers and is known to have a wicked top spin in ping-pong.

You can read Shirish's blog here


Krishnan Seshadrinathan, VP Engineering, and Chief Brewer

Prior to LiveMocha, Krishnan was Director of Development at Motive, Inc, a highly successful Austin based technology startup that delivers software used by many of the world's leading broadband providers including AT&T, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Verizon.

He was an early member of the Motive team and played an instrumental role in building products that have over 40 million users. In addition, Krishnan's team built innovative technologies that dramatically simplified home broadband services, and enabled broadband providers to manage new data, voice services effectively. Krishnan knows how to build and grow successful development teams - he later started Motive's India office and grew it to a team of over 50 employees in less than 18 months.

Krishnan has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and Masters from University of Texas, Austin.


Clint Schmidt, VP Marketing & Product y soña sobre café con leche

Clint is an expert in consumer Internet businesses, with impressive success in Marketing and Product functions with a variety of high-growth Internet companies.

Clint directed the online marketing function at Half.com, building a massive customer base that led to Half.com's acquisition by eBay. While at eBay, Clint managed strategic partnerships and ran eBay's Affiliate Program. More recently, Clint directed the E-commerce business at 1-800-CONTACTS, the World's Largest Contact Lens Store, and was Chief Marketing Officer of ZoomIn.com, India's leading photo sharing and printing site. Clint also built his own marketing consulting practice, and spent 8 months traveling the globe, developing a love of language learning and coffee from around the world!

Clint has a BSE in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sunil Sanghani, VP Business Development and Expresso Aficionado

Sunil brings global experiences in building consumer businesses at the intersection of media and communications. Prior to Livemocha. Sunil was VP, Network Ventures at IMG (International Managment Group), where he was responsible for IMG media's new media strategy & investments in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to IMG, Sunil led business development and product management initiatives at MSN resulting in multi-million dollar corporate level investments in emerging markets. Early on in his career, Sunil worked at TimeWarner as Marketing Manager in their consumer marketing group with brands such as Sports Illustrated & Money.

Sunil holds a Masters in Physical Chemistry from University of Bombay and an MBA from Clemson University. His passions in life are building global connections, his Labrador Retreiver, Mitsu, and he enjoys golf and yoga.


David Rinn, The Generations Network

David is the CFO of The Generations Network - world's largest genealogy site. As Chief Financial Officer, David is responsible for corporate accounting, financial systems, reporting, budgeting and financial planning, audit, tax, M&A activity, and funding relationships.

David comes to The Generations Network after more than eleven years at Microsoft Corporation , where he was most recently CFO of the Mobile and Embedded Devices Business Group. Previous roles at Microsoft included general manager of Finance and Administration, CFO of HomeAdvisor Technologies , senior director of Product Group Finance, and senior director of business development and investments. Earlier in his career, David worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley.

David holds an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Geology from Vassar College in New York .


Greg Stanger, Venture Partner, TCV

Greg joined TCV in December 2003. At TCV, his primary investment focus is the Internet and eCommerce sector.

Prior to joining TCV, Greg was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Expedia from 1999 to 2003. While at Expedia, Greg built and managed a comprehensive financial organization that scaled to support revenue growth from $48 million to $776 million. During his tenure, Expedia exceeded revenue and earnings consensus estimates for 15 consecutive quarters. As CFO, Greg led a successful IPO and follow-on financing. He also managed five acquisitions and one joint venture, the sale of Microsoft's majority interest in Expedia to USA Networks and the subsequent sale of the remaining public shares to InterActiveCorp (the successor to USA Networks) in a transaction which valued the company at $9.4 billion.

Before Expedia, Greg was Senior Director, Corporate Development at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Greg was with PaineWebber where he worked in investment banking. He is currently on the Board of Directors of GMI. In addition to his TCV Board obligations, Greg serves on the Board of Directors of drugstore.com and Netflix

Greg holds a B.A. in Economics from Williams College and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California Berkeley.


Raghav Kher, CEO, SeventyMM

LiveMocha Raghav loves to watch movies and brew new startups. Apart from providing strategic direction to LiveMocha, he is also the proud founder and CEO of Seventymm, India's Largest Movie Rental Service. Under his leadership, Seventymm has raised over $10 million from top-tier VCs, including Draper Fischer Jurveston, Matrix India Partners and ePlanet Ventures.

Raising funds and starting winning ventures is not new to Raghav, who thrives on Risky Business. In 2002, he founded Rendition Networks, assuming the critical role of CEO. Rendition received top-tier VC support from Ignition Partners, Madrona Ventures and others. Under his leadership, Rendition pioneered and created a brand new software product category called Configuration Control. Their product "TrueControl" won several prestigious awards from Computer World, Network World, Network Computing, Eweek and InfoWorld. Within its first year of business, Rendition won business with 25 Fortune-500 accounts, including Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, JP Morgan Chase, Countrywide Financial, Microsoft and Fidelity. In February 2005, just three years after its creation, Rendition was acquired by Opsware Inc. for $40 million.

Previously, Raghav held various executive positions at Microsoft for over eight years. He attended the School of Rock , but prefers to talk about his MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; a seldom used MS in Mechanical Engineering, and another MS in Computer Science from University of Missouri-Rolla.



Pradeep Singh, Chairman and CEO Aditi Technologies

Pradeep Singh founded Aditi Technologies in 1994 after nine years in various management positions at Microsoft, including General Manager of the Windows 95 mobile services group.

He is also the founder of Talisma, a CRM software product company. Pradeep previously held engineering and marketing positions at Texas Instruments and McKinsey & Company. Since founding Aditi, his focus has been on building world-class products and teams for software businesses worldwide.

Among other honors, Pradeep has received IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Service Award (2006) and has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum (Davos). He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of Grameen Technology Foundation.

B.S. - IIT Delhi, MBA - Harvard


Sam Jadallah, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Sam Jadallah brings extensive operating, management and investing experience to his work with MDV portfolio companies. He holds board seats with Adapt Technologies; Done Right!; InnerWorkings; Medio Systems; and Tiny Pictures.

Prior to MDV, Sam was managing director of Internet Capital Group where he led the west coast and Asian operations and served as a member of ICG's senior management team and acquisition committee.

Before that Sam spent 12 years at Microsoft where he was a corporate officer and Vice President, Worldwide Enterprise Sales. Sam's primary focus was leading the SMB and Channel efforts for Microsoft, worldwide. During his time, he led building the Microsoft Certified, Microsoft Open License, Microsoft TechNet and Microsoft Premier Support brands. Working directly for Steve Ballmer, he served as general manager of Worldwide Business Strategy and led Microsoft.com during its early growth years.

Sam serves on the board of trustees for his alma mater, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.


Satish V. Betadpur, CEO, Independent International Investment Research Group

Satish V. Betadpur, CFA has twenty one (21) years of combined experience in high technology and investments. He is currently Chief Executive Officer, Asia and Global Research Director of Independent International Investment Research Group, Plc, a LSE listed Independent Research Provider.

Prior to the current job, he was Chief Investment Officer of Anagha Capital Management, LLC, a US registered hedge fund. Before being the Chief Investment Officer at Anagha Capital Management, Satish was the Managing Director and co-head of Technology Investments at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), a $410 Billion private pension fund.

Satish received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University in India, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Satish has been a member of both the New York Society of Securities Analyst (NYSSA) and American Institute of Management Research (AIMR).


Sunny Gupta , EVP, Opsware

Sunny Gupta currently serves as Executive Vice President Products for Opsware (recently acquired by HP for 1.6B). His career spans more than 17 years in enterprise software, with roles including general management, strategic marketing, product management and business development at large companies as well as founding and building successful start-ups. Most recently, Gupta was the CEO of iConclude, where he pioneered the IT runbook automation market and led it's acquisition to Opsware for approx. $70Million in less than 2 years of company inception.

Before founding iConclude, he ran the Java/.NET performance management product group for Mercury Interactive; served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Performant (acquired by Mercury); and served as General Manager of Business Development at Rational Software (acquired by IBM). Gupta also co-founded Vigor Technology before its acquisition by Rational and held product management and consulting roles at Easel Corporation and IBM.

Sunny earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of South Carolina.


Vijay R. Vashee,

Vijay is a 19 -year veteran of Microsoft Corporation, retiring as General Manager from the company in 2001, after having worked in various positions in marketing and program management.

During his distinguished career at Microsoft, he set up many firsts: the first registered database for MS, the first Demo Days tours and the first Windows seminar. He also set up the first Microsoft ISV program recruiting Lotus, Ashton-Tate, Software Publishing, and many others to support Windows, when the company had less than $15 million revenue.

Vijay was a key player in several technology and company acquisitions, resulting in MS Project and PowerPoint being born as Microsoft products. As GM for Project, in 2.5 years after launching the Windows version, he drove market share from #4 to #1, growing the overall category from a $5MM opportunity into a $100 MM business. As GM for PowerPoint, he drove the market share from #3 to #1 over a 4-year period, effectively growing the business from $100 million to $600 million.

Vijay serves on the board or advisory boards of several organizations and firms, including SumTotal Systems, Bellevue Community College, Foundation for Early Learning, Digital Partners and Cordant among others. He serves as Chairman and past founding President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (Seattle Chapter). He is an active angel investor in various start-ups. He has a B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT (Bombay), M. Eng (Electrical Engineering) from Cornell University and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago.