Board of Directors
Mr PV Subramanyan - Chairman
Mr Vivek Veeraraghavan - Founder & CEO
Strategic Advisory Board
Chase Norlin - CEO, Pixsy Corporation
Mr. Norlin has spent the last 13 years in the emerging technologies and
online media space. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as Senior Business
Development Executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK). In this role he
focused on publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the
ValueClick display ad network, paid search, and comparison shopping
divisions.
Prior to ValueClick, Mr. Norlin held the position of Senior Business
Development Consultant to InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP) charged with publisher
distribution and emerging applications for the search division.
Previously, Mr. Norlin created Sony's first online photo sharing venture
and founded the web's first video sharing company. Mr. Norlin also
served as an EIR at Boeing Ventures in launching Boeing's (NYSE:BA)
online photo and video licensing division. Mr. Norlin has served on the
advisory board of CampusPoint (www.campuspoint.com
), a leading online recruting and staffing
firm. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of
Chicago and is a regular speaker on digital media, online advertising,
and search. Recent speaking engagements include OMMA, NATPE,
iMediaConnection, Monaco Media Forum, AlwaysOn, TheDeal, Gnomedex, and
Digital Hollywood.
Tim Hanlon - Senior Vice President/Ventures, Denuo
Tim Hanlon is Senior Vice President/Ventures for Denuo, the futures
consulting practice of advertising agency holding company Publicis
Groupe, S.A. He is chiefly responsible for the solicitation,
negotiation and oversight of the unit's strategic partnership and
equity investment activity -- focused exclusively on paradigm-changing
"new media" platforms and technologies. His current role is an
outgrowth of his previous work as head of Publicis Groupe Media (PGM)
Ventures, and includes formal advisory positions with nearly two dozen
prominent digital media startups.
Hanlon has over 15 years of traditional and interactive agency media
experience including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy &
Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based
marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media
at Creative Alliance in Louisville, KY.
Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon
was Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies
(AAAA) Advanced Television Committee from 2001-05, a founding member
of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising
(IDiA) Consortium, and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)
Advanced Media Committee.
Anand Ranganathan - Founder, Efficient Frontier
Anand Ranganathan is the founder of
Efficient Frontier, the world's largest search engine marketing firm. He continues to lead Efficient Frontier's innovations in product and technology as well as helping to build it into the most scalable platform for media buying. Anand has a graduate degree in Computer Science as well as considerable experience in writing and delivering scalable, high performance applications over the web.
Divesh Makan - Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Divesh has more than 10 years of experience in the financial and private equity industries. After joining the firm in New York, Divesh moved to SF to develop Goldman's relationships with key families and companies in the Bay Area. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Divesh was a senior manager at Accenture in the Financial Services area, before moving to the private equity area.
Divesh has visited and worked in more than 35 countries around the world looking at different companies to invest into and advise on. Divesh serves on the Board of the San Francisco Exploratorium, and the Advisor's Council of the San Francisco Ballet. Divesh received an M.B.A from the Wharton School and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal, South Africa.