The founding team is comprised of software, mobile and bio-informatics industry veterans with a track record of management positions at multinational companies and startups. Team members have worked together in various ventures over the last 15 years, including several successful technology ventures.
Shailendra Jain, CEO/Founder
Mr. Jain was previously the CEO of Adamind, a company supplying multimedia technology solutions to the mobile markets worldwide. Mr. Jain spun out Adamind from Philips Electronics in 2004, successfully listed the company on AIM (London) and completed its sale in Q2 2007. Prior roles include at GM of a BU at Philips Electronics, VP at Wave Systems Corp., and Software Engineer/Architect at Novell (Serius Corp.) Mr. Jain graduated from University Of Utah with a BS and ME in Computer Science. View his profile on LinkedIn and his favorite myGeoDiary track here.
Scott McCarty, CTO
Scott McCarty is a Senior Architect & Software Engineer with past experience including work on leading-edge document technology at WordPerfect, designing visual programming languages and researching Internet technologies as a member of the Advanced Development Group at Novell (acquired Serius Corp.).
Mike van Thiel, Advisor
Mike has over 18 years of technology and management experience in a variety of industries including the Automotive, Political, Mortgage & Title and Healthcare markets. Mike currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at Vehix, Inc (a Comcast company), a multi-platform digital automotive network where he played a key role in transforming and preparing the Vehix technology for the acquisition by Comcast in early 2008. Before joining Vehix, Mike held the position of CTO at Xi Corporation focussed on providing business intelligence solutions to the political market. Prior to that he held the position of Director of Development at Ingenix, Inc., a subsidiary of United Health Group. Mike earned a Masters Degree in Computer Science as well as a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Utah.
Hirsohi Wald Advisor, Advisor
Mr. Wald is Managing Director of Austral Capital Partners, US. Hiroshi also serves as Program Chair for the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab which hosts the largest ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders at monthly events at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Austral, he was most recently Principal at The Wald Group, a consultancy focused on technology development, management strategy and customer insights, analysis and intelligence. His diverse background includes Managing Director at Competitive Insights, a business intelligence firm focused on natural language processing of web content; product development executive at Knowledge Networks where he built and managed teams in India; CEO and Founder of a wireless startup, Zingdata, which was acquired by Knowledge Networks; directing market intelligence at Hill and Knowlton, one of the world's largest public affairs and relations firms; selection as a Coro Fellow and serving as Staff Assistant at the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Hiroshi is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mobile and Web Development Team
Based in Salt Lake City, Bangalore & Hyderabad (India), this team provides Java, .NET and Mobile development support. ABaqus team specializes in cloud technologies, sensor-enabled web and mobile solutions.
