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| Rahul Vaid |
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Rahul joined Pacesetter Capital in January 2001
and has led over a dozen investments for
Pacesetter Capital. He heads the Firms
technology venture investing leads private
equity deals in the specialty services sector.
Rahul presently serves as a director or observer
on the boards of Metrikus, Force10 Networks,
Nayna Networks (OTCBB: NAYN.OB), White Rock
Networks, Chelsio, Erlang, Sonics, Sychip,
Onsite Design, E-Z Shipper and Widedevine. His
previous investments at Pacesetter include
Volterra (Nasdaq: VLTR), Gain (Nasdaq: SMSC),
SOISI (Nasdaq: TXC), Silicon Bridge (TW:3051),
Atoga (Nasdaq: ARRS), and ipGen (Axes Tech).
Previously, he was Vice President of Investments
at Doublespace LLC, an early stage investment
firm that invested in media and
telecommunications ventures in the U.S. and
Europe. Prior to Doublespace, Rahul was one of
the founding members of Wit Capital's (now
Soundview Technology Group - Nasdaq: SNDV)
investment banking group through the firm's
initial public offering in 1999 and served as
Vice President of Investment Banking.
Previously, Rahul has held engineering positions
at Daat Research and the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research in India. Rahul is involved
with several entrepreneurial and industry
organizations such as TiE, CiE, IEEE, SVMG, AeA,
and is a frequent speaker at several conferences
on entrepreneurship and venture capital. Rahul
holds an MEM (a joint business degree) and an MS
from Dartmouth College, a BS degree from
Government College of Engineering Pune, India. |
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| Sateesh Andra |
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Sateesh Andra is a seasoned entrepreneur and
executive, who brings vision, strategy, and
leadership to Metrikus. Sateesh co-founded
Metrikus in 2005, a leading provider of IT
Management Software that enables Global 2000
companies to align IT with business priorities.
Sateesh started his Silicon Valley career in the
early nineties and brings over 15 years of
engineering, product and general management
experience in the software, semiconductor and
internet technology businesses. He has hands-on
start-up experience and in-depth knowledge of
the dynamics of VC funding. He has effectively
leveraged India to create technology products
for global markets.
As co-founder and CEO of Euclid, a leading
provider of IT Management Software, he was
instrumental in taking it from infancy to growth
phase and a hundred plus employees. Earlier,
Sateesh held management positions in business
development and marketing in Silicon Valley
start-ups, RealChip (Comstellar Communications)
a VoIP Chip Company and Tsqware Inc (Conexant),
a Network Processor Company.
Other than his leading role in start-ups, he
gained operational experience in public
companies such as LSI Logic and Wipro. Sateesh
spearheaded development and product management
of the Fast/Gigabit Ethernet Chips at LSI Logic
which were designed-in at major networking and
telecom OEMs including Cisco, Nortel and Lucent.
As a charter member of TiE, and convener of the
TiE-ISB Connect, Sateesh is actively involved in
creating a common platform for successful
entrepreneurs, venture capitalists,
academicians, and potential entrepreneurs to
interact and thus help build successful
enterprises.
Sateesh holds a B.S in Electronics and
Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University in India. |
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