We are founded by experienced entrepreneurs, who have previously built successful enterprise software companies. The Fonemine team is comprised of business leaders and software engineers with over two decades of industry experience in enterprise applications, infrastructure software and cloud computing from companies such as IBM, Oracle, HP, SGI, Veritas, Symantec, Borland and several successful Internet startup companies among others. Our team has designed, implemented, commercialized and deployed innovative enterprise products at leading Global 2000 corporations. We have been fortunate to draw from prestigious academic backgrounds, intensive industry experience, and the Silicon Valley culture of innovation and technological progress in order to bring the Fonemine products to life. Our team is proud to add Fonemine to its proven track record of bringing high quality software products to market.

	Jagadish Bandhole, CEO & Founder Jagadish is a proven leader and a successful entrepreneur in the technology industry. His area of expertise is in his extensive, pragmatic and hands-on approach to innovation in building successful software businesses that serve the needs of enterprise customers. Previously he was the CEO and Founder of Jareva, a pioneer in Datacenter Automation software which was successfully acquired by VERITAS Software. Jagadish started his career at HP working on the original design and compiler optimization team of Itanium chip. He holds several patents in the fields of cloud computing, datacenter automation and management software. He is a charter member at the world-renowned entrepreneur organization TiE actively mentoring entrepreneurs and has also helped start two other ventures. Through his entrepreneurial career he has raised over $30M in venture capital. Jagadish has a Masters in Computer Science from Indiana University at Bloomington and Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT BHU. In his spare time, Jagadish enjoys hiking and outdoor travel with family.
	Sekaran Nanja, VP Engineering & Co-founder Sekaran oversees all aspects of product operations including development, services and SaaS operations. Previously, Sekaran co-founded and served as VP Engineering at Jareva Technologies and continued to lead the product team at VERITAS Software. Sekaran has served in engineering and technical management roles at Veritas, PostX, Borland and Hewlett-Packard. Sekaran holds several patents in the areas of datacenter automation, communications security and encryption. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honors from Madras University and a Masters in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University.
	Chris Arisian, VP Sales & Business Development Chris is responsible for Sales & Business Development at Fonemine. Chris has worked at companies of all sizes, public and start-up, growing revenue both directly with inside/outside teams and indirectly by building and leveraging channels. He has been responsible for domestic and global sales execution and strategic alliances. Chris has previously held executive management and senior leadership positions at Joyent, Ingres, Exodus Communications and Oracle. In his spare time, Chris likes to mountain bike, do the occasional triathlon and enjoy a great meal.
	Dr. T.K. Lakshman, CTO TK is a technology leader, passionate about applying fundamentals of computer science to un(der)specified problems. His technical background includes mobile applications, enterprise software, infrastructure automation, compilers, and programming languages. He has previously held senior technical management and architect positions at VERITAS, Jareva Technologies, HP, SGI, and IBM. TK got his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Masters in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo, and a Bachelors degree in Physics from BITS Pilani. He has done research work at world-renowned research institutions such as TIFR, India, has numerous publications in ACM conferences and holds several patents in systems management. In his spare time, TK likes to bike and read (though not at the same time).
	Dr. William Blume, Chief Architect Bill is the key designer of Fonemine platform software, its SaaS and client-side architectures, backend database and much of its associated business logic. Previously, he was the chief software architect of Jareva, being instrumental in developing the successful server provisioning platform called OpForce. Upon acquisition by VERITAS, he served as a widely respected senior architect. Bill also worked at Hewlett Packard’s compiler lab, developing compiler optimizations for HP’s PA-RISC and Itanium processors. His roles included developing both low-level and high-level compiler optimizations, performance analysis and tuning of large enterprise applications, and development of a Java JVM for Itanium. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the field of compiler optimizations for highly parallel supercomputers. His technical interests include programming languages, compiler optimizations, performance tuning, and software engineering. His hobbies include hiking and drawing.