CE2: Entrepreneurs and Executives - Members

Below is a sampling of members of CE2. Check back here regularly as we add more bios

Sanjay Anandaram

Sanjay is a founding Partner of JumpStartUp Venture Fund set up in 2000 to invest in early stage, innovative companies that leveraged India. He led investments in Jareva Technologies (acquired by Veritas/Symantec), Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions), Aarohi Communications (acquired by Emulex), Hellosoft, and NetDevices.

Sanjay has 18 years of industry experience including significant international experience involving new business creation and business development in India, US, Asia, Middle-East and Africa. He has been involved with cross-border international business development, technology development & deployment, sales, and investments since 1991. Prior to founding JumpStartUp, Sanjay founded Neta Inc., a venture capital backed Silicon Valley software startup that was acquired by Infoseek (Disney). He wrote the business plan, was involved in fund-raising, recruitment, developing the competitive market positioning, establishing key strategic partnerships, coordinating beta customer programs, and in its M & A. In 1999, Sanjay returned to India after the acquisition of Neta and founded VentureKatalyst, India's first online publication aimed at entrepreneurs.

Before Neta, Sanjay spent many years with Wipro (NYSE:WIT) in their Global R&D and new business development groups in India and the US. At Wipro, he was responsible for creating and driving several pioneering initiatives that resulted in the creation of extremely successful businesses. He also established a "product design lab for hire" in Silicon Valley in 1994 that undertook leading edge turnkey product development and engineering for startups and large companies. In 1996, as part of Wipro's corporate development efforts, he wrote the business plan that led to the creation of a healthcare domain focused IT solutions practice. Earlier, Sanjay was responsible for channel and OEM sales in Africa, Middle-East and the Far East. He started his IT industry career in sales for Wipro in India.

He is an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, Singapore where he conducts the Business Plan Workshop, a charter member of TiE Bangalore, Finance Committee Chair of the TiE Bangalore Entrepreneur Accelerator Programme (TiE-EAP), Advisor & Screening Committee member at the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Indian Institute of Management (NSRCEL) at IIM, Bangalore, Member of Nasscom's core working group on R&D and Innovation, and a working group member of the Indo-US Council on Entrepreneurship in Academia.

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Jim Davis

Jim Davis served as the VP Marketing and New Business Development for eBay where he helped lead the company's marketing initiatives and expand the company's e-commerce business beyond collectibles and flea market items. Specifically, he helped launch new major businesses for eBay such as autos, electronics, fashion, industrial equipment, jewelry, movies (DVD's) & music (CD's), sports, & tickets. In addition, he developed a new online marketing strategy that dramatically improved eBay's marketing effectiveness and maximized its return against key initiatives such as customer acquisition, activation and retention. During his tenure, eBay grew from 8 million to 64 million registered users and increased total revenues from $200 million to almost $1.1 billion. He sits on the advisory board of CircleUp and Authenticlick.

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Brian Golbère

Brian Golbère is a co-founder and Principal at OrcaTec LLC. Before starting OrcaTec, Brian was an Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and co-founder of DolphinSearch. At DolphinSearch, Brian engineered DolphinSearch's patented concept search and was the primary architect for their pioneering electronic discovery review application - the industry's first to offer concept search, native document review and a review management console. Brian also architected and deployed a state of the art data center to host DolphinSearch's ASP products which brought together a high-availability blade architecture, SAN fabric and redundant data network. He was the product manager for DolphinSearch eDiscovery and other tools.

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Jim Jonnasen

Jim Jonassen is a co-founder of CircleUp, Inc. and serves as non-executive Chairman of the board. Jim recently founded Jim Jonassen & Assoc. Venture Search. Prior to JJ&A, Jim built two executive search firms and two successful software companies. Jim founded software company Micro J Systems in '87 where he still serves as Chairman and he cofounded PeopleMover in '97, merging it with Opus360 just prior to its IPO in 2000 Jim cofounded two other search firms, Riviera Partners in '01 and The Larkin Group in '93.

Working with then Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, Jim co-founded the Digital Coast Roundtable and launched LAwNMoweR - the Los Angeles New Media Roundtable in the mid '90s. He was also a talent scout for America Online's AOL Greenhouse incubator and venture fund. Accolades include being named the 1999 Software Entrepreneur of the Year by the Software Council of Southern California. In addition, he was named three-times to the "Top 25 People in High Technology" by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases, data mining, and data privacy, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books – Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Motwani has been on various industry and advisory boards, including Adchemy, Agitar, Baynote, Coral8, DotEdu Ventures, Flarion, Fraudwall, Google, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems, Neopath Networks, Snaptell, Tizor and uGenie.

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Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D

Dr.Herb Roitblat is a co-founder and Principal at OrcaTec LLC. Before starting Orcatec, Herb was Executive Vice President, Chief Scientist, and co-founder of DolphinSearch. He is the primary inventor of the core DolphinSearch technology (patent No. 6,189,002). His duties at DolphinSearch included new product development, business development, and marketing as well as internal and external consulting on the processes of eDiscovery and related information management and data mining issues. Herb led the design of the DolphinSearch review tools, DIAD, and ComplianSeek, and was part of the team that brought concept searching and native file review to the eDiscovery industry. He was also responsible for DolphinSearch’s Federal Market efforts.

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Dr. Andreas Weigend

Dr. Andreas Weigend is an expert in merging data analysis and complex algorithms with software technologies. As independent consultant, he works with data-intensive organizations creating products and strategy based on metrics and behavioral analytics. His career as scientist and innovator in quantitative methods gives him a unique ability to bridge the gap between academia and business. Until 2004, he was the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, where he developed predictive models of customer behavior and applied them to marketing.

  • As author, he published six books and more than one hundred scientific papers in the areas of time series prediction, computational finance, and machine learning. He is a sought-after speaker at international conferences. Keynotes in 2005 included: The Attention Economy, and People and Data: Understanding Customer Behavior.
  • As educator, he teaches the graduate course Data Mining and Electronic Business at Stanford University, as well as the executive course Technology, Information and Innovation around the world.
  • As consultant, his clients span the spectrum from start-ups to Goldman Sachs, UBS, Siemens, Swiss International Air Lines, and Yahoo.

He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics in 1991, and was a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Born in Germany he lives in San Francisco, Shanghai, and on www.weigend.com

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