Ashesh (alex) Shah

Current

• Global Head Corporate Development at Trikona Capital

Past

• Founder & Chairman at Get Solo, LLC
• VP Product Strategy at Black Duck Software
• Founder and CTO at PLEJ, Inc

• Co-Founder and CEO at Spydre, LLC
• Chairman and CEO at Wallaware, Inc
• VP Product Management at Vantage Technologies
• VP Business Development at Prospero Technologies/Delphi Forums
• VP of Research and Development at International Integration, Inc.
• Managing Director, Cambridge Advanced Technology Lab at Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE)
• VP of Technology at Integrated Computing Engines, Inc (ICE)
• VP Research and Development at Razorfish
• VP Research and Development at i-Cube
• VP of Technology at ICE
• Co-Founder and VP of Sales at Integrated Computing Engines
• Founder and Associate Partner at The Partnering Group
• Product Manager of Industry Standard Category Management Tool at The Partnering Group Software
• General Manager Europe, Cambridge Technology Group at Cambridge Technology Group
• VP Strategy, Cambridge Technology Group / Open Environment Corp at Open Environment
• Leadership Analyst, South Asia at Central Intelligence Agency
• Northeast ACIS Marketing Product Specialist at International Business Machines, Inc.

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Education

• Williams College
• Hofstra University
• Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

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Ashesh (alex) Shah’s Summary

Over eighteen years of industry experience founding and managing deep technology and Internet start-ups from birth through IPO, where besides the CEO position, I have served positions ranging from VP of Business Development or VP World-Wide Sales to VP of Product Management or VP of Research and Development. The companies have ranged in scope from client/server consulting and network infrastructure software development to supercomputing hardware design. Hired over 300 professionals in the Boston area and Europe over the past 10 years, and managed teams from 5 to 80. Ideal for cross continental ventures, or companies experiencing change. Held top secret clearences and filed seven patents with over 200 claims.

Ashesh (alex) Shah’s Specialties:

Technology Positioning vis-à-vis Market, Product Design, High-growth Infrastructure, System Architecture, New Business Development, Process Re-engineering, Client Management, P & L Management, Management of off-shore development/sales, Asia-Pacific and European Sales, Credit Card and Payment Systems, SS7 networks, High-Performance Computing, Computer Special Effects, Enterprise IT Architecture, India, Indian Real Estate, Infrastructure, Fund Raising, Venture Finance

Ashesh (alex) Shah’s Experience

• Global Head Corporate Development

  Trikona Capital

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; TRC.L; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Lead Trikona's global investment product development, marketing, fundraising and investor relations. Currenly servicing investors in Trikona's $500+ mm public fund, Trikona Trinity Capital PLC, LSE: TRC.L; as well as, potential investors in several new Indian real estate and infrastructure funds with an aggregagte target in excess of $1.5 billion.

• Founder & Chairman

  Get Solo, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Removing the clutter in people's wallet one card at a time. solo*'s patent pending technology allows you to replace all the loyalty cards in your wallet with just one piece of plastic. www.getsolo.com

• VP Product Strategy

  Black Duck Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  Served as part of the Black Duck launch team, and co-author of one of the Black Duck patent filings.

• Founder and CTO

  PLEJ, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  Invented and developed a flexible payment/loyalty platform designed to help organizations improve customer loyalty, stimulate transactions and unify payment offerings without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades.

• Co-Founder and CEO

  Spydre, LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 1997 — August 2002 (5 years 2 months)

  Established a global hi-tech venture catalyst employing over 20 professionals focused on concept actualization, business development, marketing and technology creation. Grew client base to over 25 companies on three continents (Europe, North America, and South America), received over $8 million in investment from and formed strategic relationships with WPP Group (www.wpp.com), Merrill Lynch, and IBM while maintaining a profitable business model.

• Chairman and CEO

  Wallaware, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)

  Drove the creation and expansion of one of the key wireless startups of 2001 (voted Wireless Top 10 by Wireless Internet Daily). The company’s operations spanned Europe, the US and Latin America with offices in Boston and Galway, Ireland. Established strategic relationships with IBM, CMG, Reuters, Accenture and ESPN, while raising $3.7 million in 2001 from some of the leading wireless analysts on Wall Street. Deployed solutions in several major wireless carriers including, Cellular One, and Telenor. Co-author of three patents and over fifty claims in network proxing systems, telecommunications, and security solutions for the wireless Internet. (www.wallaware.com)

• VP Product Management

  Vantage Technologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  Established a product framework for creating the worlds leading SRM platform. Organized key consulting theories and methodologies into a ASP / deployable system designed to enable immediate action through integration with existing enterprise systems. (http://www.vantagetechnologies.com)

• VP Business Development

  Prospero Technologies/Delphi Forums

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  October 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 6 months)

  Established key partnerships and reference accounts from Amazon.com to Xoom.com (NBCi) and created relationships that grew Delphi’s reach from 10,000 members to a network of over 25 million in 18 months. Demonstrated the viability of a remotely managed message board and chat software platform through a series of sales to major websites making Delphi/Prospero (www.prospero.com) the 15th stickiest ASP on the web and a MediaMetrix 100 ASP.

• VP of Research and Development

  International Integration, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; RAZF; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1997 — September 1997 (7 months)

  Recruited by the Chairman and CEO to troubleshoot and restructure the core technology group of consulting firm that closes the gap between business strategy and information technology for Fortune 1000 clients. Established the message and technology to highlight the company’s key competitive advantage, a core application and code-transformation infrastructure, I-Structure. Responsible for over 20 senior technologists and core architects. Company IPO’d then sold for $677 million to Razorfish and the i-Cube shares reached a market capitalization of over $2 Billion.

• Managing Director, Cambridge Advanced Technology Lab

  Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 1996 — May 1997 (1 year 5 months)

  A technology incubator spun out of the Cambridge Group of companies, CTE established a $25 million venture fund Cambridge Samsung Partners and a technology catalyst, Cambridge Advanced Technologies Lab (CATLabs). CATLabs was focused on researching and commercializing emerging technologies. The team worked closely with Samsung development teams and established the base technologies for a number of CTE portfolio companies. Managed a team of over 20.

• VP of Technology

  Integrated Computing Engines, Inc (ICE)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 2 months)

  Licensed experimental supercomputing technology from MIT’s Lincoln Labs and commercialized it into a series of high-performance digital media engines. The solutions targeted Hollywood and the digital post-production / special effects industry. Major milestones include: securing an US$8 million investment and strategic partnership with Compaq Computer Corporation; securing an additional $22 million from Safeguard Scientific, Citibank, and Sega; and filing patents on the first real-time proxy based compression system to reduce Internet download times by over 50%. Managed a team of over 75. Reference accounts include: Madonna, The Fifth Element, Dreamworks, the Academy Awards, MTV, and VH1. The company spun out the core streaming media technology into Anystream, Inc. (www.anystream.com), and sold the hardware and software components to Media100 (www.media100.com) and Avid Technologies, Inc (www.avid.com)

• VP Research and Development

  Razorfish

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

• VP Research and Development

  i-Cube

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

• VP of Technology

  ICE

  (Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

• Co-Founder and VP of Sales

  Integrated Computing Engines

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  December 1994 — February 1996 (1 year 3 months)

• Founder and Associate Partner

  The Partnering Group

  (Management Consulting industry)

  January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Specialized in client/server and Internet migration strategies, enterprise system architecture, and the use of IT in the areas of multifunctional alignment and sales force automation. Consulted senior executives on the design and implementation of multi-gigabyte DSS data warehouses fueling the executive information systems (EIS), for manufacturers and retailers in the consumer packed goods industry. Clients included: Rite-Aid, CVS, K-Mart, Stop & Shop, James River, Kiwi Brands, Harcourt General, Proctor and Gamble, and Ralston Purina

• Product Manager of Industry Standard Category Management Tool

  The Partnering Group Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Helped secure over $1 million from Information Resources Inc, (IRI) to jointly develop The Category Manager™, the industry’s leading efficient consumer response (ECR) best-practices category management software product. This product provided both retailers and manufacturers the ability to manage categories of products as individual business units. Identified and implemented the product’s analytics requirements, from the business requirements, as defined by the ECR best practices business leaders.
  
  Lead the joint product and marketing teams, and was responsible for the ECR best practices based artificial intelligence (AI) within the software from industry professionals including the former VP of Sales for Proctor and Gamble, CEO of ConAgra, designer of Space Management, CEO of Kraft, and the creator of the Walmart / Proctor and Gamble alliance.
  
  Subsequently sold the company to IRI software, then sold to Oracle as their on-line analytical processing (OLAP) solution.

• General Manager Europe, Cambridge Technology Group

  Cambridge Technology Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 1993 — February 1994 (8 months)

  Responsible for establishing European presence Cambridge Technology Group, a management consulting firm specializing in the use of information technology to gain a competitive advantage. CTGroup’s seminars attracted over 15,000 senior executives from over 750 of the Global 1000 companies. Developed and grew a team of 15 professionals in Shannon, Ireland.

• VP Strategy, Cambridge Technology Group / Open Environment Corp

  Open Environment

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  June 1992 — June 1993 (1 year 1 month)

  Helped to transform IBM’s World-Wide Client/Server computing direction though lectures on three-tiered open client/server and enterprise computing while establishing Open Environment Corporation (OEC) as a leader in open systems development tools and training. By delivering seminars and establishing strategic partnerships with senior IBM executives in America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Japan, OEC was able to expand its business globally.
  
  Sold over $10 million in consulting to IBM in 1993 at a 90% margin and established a global joint marketing and development agreement to further secure OEC’s prospects of going public. Managed a global team of over 50 marketing, technical support, and training professionals.
  
  OEC went public in 1994 and was subsequently sold to Borland

• Leadership Analyst, South Asia

  Central Intelligence Agency

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; International Affairs industry)

  March 1990 — June 1992 (2 years 4 months)

  Specialized in South Asian Leadership Analysis. Served on several major taskforces during national crisis and maintained Top Secret and Special clearances.

• Northeast ACIS Marketing Product Specialist

  International Business Machines, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1989 — June 1992 (3 years 6 months)

  Focused on the product launch of the IBM PS/2 series bundles targeting northeastern universities. Joint member of the team that decided to “bundle” Windows with the PS/2 and allow PCs to start directly in a graphical environment.

Ashesh (alex) Shah’s Education

• Williams College

  BA , Political Economy , 1988 — 1992

  Pre-med

  Activities and Societies:

  Williams Record, Williams Observer, Freshman Crew, Yearbook

• Hofstra University

  Computer Science 1981 — 1983

  Partial BA in computer science

• Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus

  Computer Science 1980 — 1983

  Partial BA in computer science, beta tester for Microsoft basic, VAX system 5 and internet access

Additional Information

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Ashesh (alex) Shah’s Interests:

cooking, wine, photography, scuba, gadets

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