About Me

I am currently a Vice President at Venrock , a venture capital fund, and am based in Menlo Park, California.  I am focusing on investments in digital media, mobile, digital car and software.  At Venrock, I serve on the board at Aha Mobile, Lavante, and SlideShare. 

Prior to Venrock, I co-founded in 1999 and lead product management for Covigo, a mobile software platform company. Covigo's products enabled developers (including enterprise applications vendors and mobile operators) to rapidly build out mobile data and voice applications involving J2ME, XHTML/WAP, SMS and VoiceXML.  We were acquired by Symbol Technologies (now Motorola's Enterprise  Mobility  division) in 2003 where we launched mobile device and wireless network management products for use at large Fortune 500 companies.

I have also worked in product management at CrossWorlds Software (an enterprise application integration software company acquired by IBM's WebSphere division) and Aditi Technologies (a product engineering company with a CRM product spin-off) as well as in private equity and corporate finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Jefferies & Company.

I was the founder of a networking organization called IndiaEntrepreneurs catering to the venture/startup community in India.  I am actively interested in Indian companies targeting the Indian markets.

My educational background includes an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in Economics from Wharton and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

World travel is something I've been doing since childhood.  My latest (and somewhat outdated) travels are chronicled at my worldtour travel blog.