Has the internet changed the nature of the way shopping occurs in stores these days? more
Facebook Places, Foursquare and just about every Social Networking seems to be focusing on location these days. But the problem is they all rely on some sort of check-in, whether it be manual check-in by the user or using the latest GPS/Geo-fencing based check-in.
Novitaz's management team and advisory board consist of seasoned executives with deep domain knowledge in enterprise software development combined with retail domain experience.
Our global team, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, integrates both startup and Fortune 500 expertise. Veteran U.S. software industry experts head our talented engineering team based in Mumbai, India.
Unique combination of Fortune 500 and Start-up experience. Significant start-up experience as vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at Shop911, as VP of engineering at Commerce Events, and as an early member of the Rasna Corporation team. Shop911 was acquired by SaleMinder, and Rasna was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation (now PTC) (Nasdaq: PMTC). Engineering Manager at BAE Systems. Received several awards for excellence including the "Best People Award" for outstanding leadership at BAE systems. MS Stanford University and B.Tech. Indian Institutes of Technology.
Globally awarded advertising professional with two decades of brand, retail and shopper marketing experience for Unilever, P&G, Colgate and others. BS Indian Institute of Technology, MBA Indian Institute of Management
17 years of experience in architecting and building Enterprise Software products with emphasis on Enterprise Search and Data Warehousing. Published patents in the areas of analytics and indexing/search. Senior Manager, Engineering at Iron Mountain and Stratify MS Computer Science, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
20+ years of Professional Services experience in designing business solutions for prominent retail organizations. Previously at Wipro and Accenture. BS. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, MD
Previously chief technology officer of EPS Consultants, an Indian IT consultancy for workflow automation. He now serves on the board of Elektromag Devices, Mumbai. Engineering role at IBM. Navin holds a bachelor of science from Polytechnic University in New York.
Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC, a private equity firm investing in venture capital companies. Previously Chief Executive Officer of Curl Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company. Dr. Young was also the Managing Partner of Dillon Read's venture capital funds and subsequently was head of Technology Banking in corporate finance. Prior to Dillon Read, he served as President, IBM Instruments, Inc. Dr. Young presently serves on the board of directors of several private information technology companies. He received a B.S. with honors in chemistry from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
CEO, Protegrity. Previously, served as a managing partner at Persephone Investments (1992 - 2001) where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Synetics, Inc. President New Technology (1997 - 1998) and then the CEO position (1998 - 2001). Synetics was acquired by Affiliated Computer Services, a NASDAQ company. ACS was then acquired by Lockheed Martin. Munshani joined the Synetics team after making several investments, including Paradigm Systems, Inc, where he also served as the Chairman. This was acquired by Platinum Technology / Computer Associates. Prior to Persephone Investments, Munshani was the President at Trirex, a software company whose technology was acquired by Perot Systems. Mr Munshani holds a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, India
Co-Founder, with Barton Biggs and Cyril Moulle-Berteaux, of Traxis Partners, a hedge fund with a focus on global, multi-asset class investing. Mr. Dhar was a managing director for fifteen years at Morgan Stanley, where he was a portfolio manager for Emerging Markets Equity (1991-98), Active International (1986-97) and US Equity (1985-86). He also served as a member of the executive committee of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, Co-Head of the Global Asset Allocation Group, Global Strategist and Head of the Emerging Markets Group at the firm.
Skip Sack started in the restaurant industry in 1951 while a freshman in high school. He received a bachelor of science from the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration at Cornell University in 1961 and the same year joined the Howard Johnson Company as an advertising assistant. Skip spent 16 years in a direct operations role during his Howard Johnson tenure. He developed the Ground Round restaurant chain, taking it from one restaurant to 65 units in seven years. For four years, he served as vice president of Specialty Restaurants, which included the Ground Round restaurants and Red Coach Grills.
Paul Dunay has spent more than 20 years in marketing, creating buzz for leading technology companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, BearingPoint, and Cisco. Paul currently is the CMO of Networked Insights a social media insights firm. He is considered an expert on Facebook having written Facebook Marketing for Dummies which has sold more than 22,000 copies and his new book Facebook Advertising for Dummies just came out last fall. He was also named one of BtoB Marketing Magazine’s Top 25 Marketers of the Year for the last 2 years! Paul holds a degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Strategy and Innovation and a Bachelor degree from Ithaca College in Marketing and Computer Science.
