Harvi Sachar - CEO
Harvi has more then 20 years professional experience as an entrepreneur, CEO, corporate manager in IT and as technology leader. Harvi is currently CEO of SiliconIndia which he founded in 1997 as first Media Company in U.S. to provide a platform for global Indians to share their experiences and to showcase as role model successful entrepreneurs and corporate leaders of Indian origin. Harvi was CEO of a successful IT services firm InfoConnect inc. from 1992 to 1997. InfoConnect provided high end IT services for financial and telecom companies. Harvi managed technology projects at J.P.Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch for InfoConnect Inc. Before embarking on his entrepreneur's career with InfoConnect, Harvi worked for 7 years for AT&T Bell Labs, Salomon Bros and Deutsche Bank as Manager and V.P. in technology area.
Harvi was also founding CEO of B2B marketplace for IT services, Itsquare.com from 1999 to 2002. Itsquare.com was a VC funded startup, which provided revolutionary web based software for tech companies to manage its partners.
He obtained his B.Tech in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He holds a M.S. in Materials Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He finished his education by receiving a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Texas.
Harvi was founding team member of NY chapter of TIE and worked with several Indian organizations like NetIp to promote the entrepreneurship in Indian tech community. He has also organized entrepreneurship conferences in Bangalore, N.J. and Silicon Valley. Harvi was awarded a distinguished alumni award by west coast IIT Kanpur alumni association in April 2007.
Gunjan Sinha - Chairman
Blog: http://blogs.siliconindia.com/Gunjan
Gunjan Sinha is a quintessential entrepreneur. Over his career, Gunjan has spent over 18 years in various entrepreneurial roles helping build several successful businesses. As an internet pioneer in 1995, he was the co-founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a leading Internet directory services company, which grew to be the 12th most visited site on the web. WhoWhere? was later acquired by Lycos in 1998. For Gunjan, WhoWhere? experience led to the cofounding of eGain, where we was the founding President and helped the company grow to become one of the leading online customer service company. Since 2004, Gunjan serves as an executive Chairman of Metricstream, dedicated to fundamentally change how companies comply to Government regulations. Gunjan serves on the Board of several venture-backed technology companies in India and US: Regalix, TBD Networks, SiliconIndia amongst others.
Over his entreprenurial career, Gunjan has also helped build successful social ventures. Since year 2001, he has served on the Board and worked actively to build CFHI (Child Family Health International) into a leading global organization for providing quality healthcare to the most underdeveloped parts of the world. In 2005, Gunjan Sinha joined SiliconIndia.com as the chairman of the Board, to help build a global educational and knowledge network for the New India, helping students and entrepreneurs from small towns of India to build their careers through a collaborative community platform. Gunjan has been active in the PAN IIT Charter meets over the years in contributing back to his Alma Mater.
He obtained his BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.
Gunjan has been featured in several business and technology publications in India and US, and has frequently spoken at conferences on Internet technologies, Social entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 & others. In Year 2000, he was featured as one of the 50 most successful immigrant entrepreneurs in the US by SiliconIndia Magazine. Recently in 2007, Gunjan was also awarded the "Outstanding Top 50" Asian American Business leader for significant contributions to entrepreneurship.
