Advisory Board

Vasudev Bhandarkar
Board Member, Globallogic
former CEO, Unimobile

Vasudev (Vas) Bhandarkar actively assists private companies in venture financing, business strategy/development, team development and global sales and marketing. During his career Vas has successfully built/helped build businesses in Wireless/Internet (Unimobile, carwale.com) Enterprise software (Selectica/B2B2C, Remedy/B2B), and Outsourced Services (Global logic) industries. His operational experience spans 22 years in marketing, business development, sales, product development and general management.

He began his career as a technologist working at Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation and Apple Computer. Most recently Vas worked in the Venture Capital Industry as a private investor and briefly as a Venture Partner at BlueRun Ventures reviewing Mobile and Internet software/services deals. Prior to his work as a venture capitalist, he was Chairman and CEO of Unimobile, a wireless platform software company which was sold to Electronics for Imaging (EFII). Unimobile had 1.2M consumers worldwide and their products were used by leading Banks, Financial Institutions and Airlines in the world.

Prior to his work at Unimobile, Vas was the founding Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Selectica Inc. A leading provider of intelligent selling systems and configuration tools for the Internet, which had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ (SLTC) in 2000. At Selectica, he was instrumental in shaping the company’s software strategy and helped close the first partnership and sales deals (Ascend, BMW, HP) that established the company as a leader in the market. Prior to Selectica he founded and ran a successful software services firm, Alma Enterprises which he merged into Selectica. He has also held senior technology and executive positions at Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple Computer and Remedy Corporation.

Vas holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Colorado State University and Physics from IIT-Bombay. Vas has completed course work towards an MBA at Santa Clara University and executive education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vas is a charter member of TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs Organization. He is also involved with SINE - the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT-Bombay and Team-CSU from Colorado State University. His most recent investment is in the Indian online automobile portal carwale.com.

His detailed profile is at: http://vbhandarkar.blogspot.com

Jaime Robertson-Lavalle
Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital

Jaime Robertson-Lavalle has over 13 years of leadership experience in private equity investments, corporate development and operations. Most recently as Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital, Jaime and his team led investments and acquisitions in networking and IT infrastructure, software, value-added services, and security. The investment portfolio built the $500 million Intel Communications Fund, an equity fund for technology companies developing innovative networking and communications solutions.

Jaime joined Intel Capital in 1999 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Dialogic Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development and headed the company’s mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments activity. Prior to that Jaime started the company’s Latin American subsidiary, which he grew to the number one position in the region. Before joining Dialogic, Jaime held positions at Arthur D. Little, Exxon, and IBM. He received an MBA degree from Harvard University and an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Jaime is an Alumni Advisor for Harvard Business School, a member of the Harvard Club of New York City and Angelvine, formerly known as the Jersey Angels Network.

Jeffrey Ullman
Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
CEO, Gradiance Corp.

Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp., a startup trying to produce low-cost, high-quality tools for secondary and college education.

He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. He has served as chair of the CS-GRE Examination board, Member of the ACM Council, Chair of the New York State CS Doctoral Evaluation Board, on several NSF advisory boards, and is past or present editor of several journals.

Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He won both the SIGMOD Contributions and Codd Innovations awards, is the 1998 winner of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 2000 winner of the Knuth Prize. He is the author of 16 books, including widely read books on database systems, compilers, automata theory, and algorithms.