Raj Jaswa is the CEO, President, and Chairman of Dyyno, Inc. Prior to Dyyno, Raj was the President and Board Director of the Silicon Valley chapter of TiE, the world's largest nonprofit fostering entrepreneurship. Prior to that, Raj served as Co-founder, Chairman, CEO, and President of Selectica (Nasdaq: SLTC), an enterprise software company. During Raj's tenure, Selectica was named to the Forbes 500, Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, Software 500, Inc. 500, and Interactive Week 500. Selectica reached a peak market value of $5 billion in 2000. Prior to Selectica, Raj served as Co-founder, President, and Board Director of Opti (Nasdaq: OPTI), and previously as EVP of Sales & Marketing. Opti was the world's largest supplier of PC chipsets with a peak market value of $350 million in the mid-90s.
Raj serves, or has served, as a Board Director at Jareva (Symantec), Appstream (Symantec), Blue Pumpkin Software (Verint), and FusionOps. Earlier in his career, Raj worked for Intel, General Electric, and Chips & Technologies. Raj received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the IIT, Bombay, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Stetson University, Deland, Florida.
Saurabh Srivastava focuses on early-stage technology investments in systems and software. As a Partner of Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of airwide Solutions, Digital Radio Express, Dyyno, Lightwire (formerly SiOptical), Kasenna, OpSource and Ortiva Wireless. Prior to joining Artiman in 2000, Saurabh was a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Cisco Systems' Corporate Business Development group, where he led the technology strategy for VoIP and wireless mobility teams, focusing on Cisco's technology and acquisition strategies in the voice-over IP, wireless/mobility and VPN areas. At Cisco he led 18 acquisitions and 10+ investments.
Before joining Cisco, Saurabh worked part time for Philips while completing Stanford's MBA program. At Philips, he worked with a group that created the venture funding arm of Philips in the US. Prior to that, for almost eight years, Saurabh held various operating roles from engineering to engineering management, marketing and pre-sales at Silicon Graphics, Inc., Kaleida Labs and Digital Equipment Corp. He also holds two patents for networking protocol technologies.
Amit Shah focuses on early stage technology investments. As a Partner of Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of Auryn, InvenSense, Lightwire (formerly SiOptical), MYNDnet and Zyme. Prior to founding Artiman Ventures, Amit gained technology investment experience as a General Partner of Anthelion I & II, a seed stage venture fund. He also worked as VP of New Markets and Technologies for Cisco Systems' Business Development and Alliances Group. Prior to this he founded and was CEO of PipeLinks, Inc., acquired by Cisco (1998). Preceding PipeLinks, he founded ZeitNet, a networking systems company which was then acquired by Cabletron (1996).
Amit has taught numerous courses and seminars in networking at UC Berkeley, InterOp, and other forums in the United States and abroad. He also authored FDDI: A High Speed Network, published by Prentice-Hall.
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