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Siddhartha Chandurkar is the CEO & Founder of ShepHertz – A complete cloud system for Apps & Games. He has been a frequent speaker and blogger on Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Siddhartha has made multiple contributions in public forums i.e. Open Source contributions and participation in International workgroups/communities e.g. ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 Working Group 42.
Earlier he has worked in Ericsson, Wipro and has consulted for multiple Tier 1 & 2 global organisations.
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Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and an active angel investor. Sashi runs a seed stage venture fund, SRI Capital, that is typically the first institutional investor in various technology and media start-ups. Some of the companies in his portfolio are Glassbeam (machine log analytics for technology support), ThinCI (graphics chip design company in stealth mode), Identropy (identity as SaaS), Edutor (leading tablet based e-learning player in India), and iMomentous (mobile based talent engagement). He is also a member of the investment team at Gabriel Investments.
Previously, Sashi was the founder and CEO of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK. AppLabs was funded by Sequoia Capital India. CSC acquired AppLabs in September 2011. Series A investors in AppLabs received a 10X return on their investment in 6 years.
Post the acquisition of AppLabs by CSC, Sashi served as the VP & GM, Big Data and Analytics at CSC, reporting directly to the CEO. CSC (NYSE: CSC) is a $15 Billion IT services and consulting company.
A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started three other companies prior to AppLabs. These were EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and eventually a part of Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).
Sashi received his BTech in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Sashi serves on the advisory board of Wharton Entrepreneurship, board of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, as well as on the board of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). He is a charter member of TiE Philadelphia and TiE Hyderabad. He also runs a charitable organization, SRI Trust, that supports the educational and overall development needs of 600 children in 3 schools in India.