Iqbal Gandham

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Chief Business Strategist (iqbalgandham@yahoo.co.uk) at Nivio
CEO at ipClouds Ltd
Co-Founder, VP, and CTO at Net4India

Co-Founder & CTO (Director also) at Net 4 India Limited
Systems Engineer - Project Manager at Prestel

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Education

UCL
University of Birmingham

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Iqbal Gandham

Iqbal Gandham’s Summary

Educated as a Spacecraft Engineer, moved swiftly away into Internet Technologies. Worked with several startups, and taken them to listing stage, including Onet Ltd, in the UK. Spent 5 years in India, building India's largest Web Hosting provider (Net4India). Travelled back to the UK to build ipClouds. Although raised money successfully, Skype was a little too big.

Moved onto to become one of the founding team at Nivio.com. Since then Nivio has gone from strength to strength, and was recently voted as Tech pioneer 2009 at Davos.

http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp? edid=30516&magid=11

And worked with the team at Bharti not just for this project but another bigger one....coming soon

http://www.watblog.com/2009/02/19/bharti-airtel-launches-worlds-first-windows-based-online-desktop-on-airtel-broadband/

And now....have moved on again, looking for the next big thing...if you find it before I do, give me a shout...so far its been
www.asksaurabh.com (a jobsite for the laid off) and www.vouchahcha.com, a lbs based coupon system, to me stepping stones to something...just not sure what....semantic maybe

Contact: iqbalgandham@yahoo.co.uk
T: @iqbalgandham
S: feelin_tired

Goal:Get everyone connected...

Iqbal Gandham’s Specialties:

Internet Visionary, Business formulating, and execution. Balance sheets, PR strategy, Idea generation, building great teams, and solving problems. Dislike following.

Iqbal Gandham’s Experience

Chief Business Strategist (iqbalgandham@yahoo.co.uk)

Nivio

(Internet industry)

February 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Where do I start with this position. I joined as one of the founding team at Nivio. Nivio is an online desktop, but unlike others out there, its Windows XP, just as you login to email, you can now login to XP. It is funded by private equity from the UK.

During my time at Nivio, I have led the systems and networks team, then led the sales and marketing teams. I was instrumental in building the sales team, together with closing the largest revenue deal for Nivio. Ensuring that Nivio was no longer a startup but a fully fledged company.

My final task was to get them to Davos, which we did
http://www.cxotoday.com/India/News/Nivio_Awarded_WEFs_Technology_Pioneer_for_2009/551-96149-912.html, and win.

Nivio is no longer a startup, but valued at over $30million, hence my job is done...time to move on to the next big thing, if you find it before I do, let me know :-)
CEO

ipClouds Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

June 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 6 months)

I was the CEO of a new startup in the UK, namely ipClouds Ltd. It specializes in providing telecom solutions over high speed Internet Connections, VoIP for short.

Being the founder of the business, the strategy decisions, land firmly on my desk. Together with all business and technical issues. Slowly the burden has been eased by a good team of people, that have been recruited. The service is up and running, www.ipclouds.co.uk, the technology platform all designed and built, the distribution channels in place, now its down to getting the fourth piece in the jigsaw puzzle together...the financing.

So come join the revolution....

Note: The revolution has come and gone, I have moved on....
Co-Founder, VP, and CTO

Net4India

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

September 1999 — April 2004 (4 years 8 months)

This position was the most fun I had had in a long time. The CEO and myself, worked in ISP's in the UK, looked at doing "our own thing", and packed our bags, and travelled to India. There after raising £5 million in financing, we set about building the "biggest and the best".

By 2003, Net4India, was the largest domain registration and web hosting provider in India, spanning 11 cities, and emplying over 300 people. Since then Net4india, pioneered VoIP, and became the first ISP in India to offer VoIP, via its retail arm www.phonewala.com.

My day to day work, as a board member involved, business strategy, and future planning. Service providers need to continously to develop service's, Net4india did this at a pace, second to none.

Net4india has recently filed it draft offer document for filing with SEBI, for a potential IPO
Co-Founder & CTO (Director also)

Net 4 India Limited

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2004 (5 years )
Systems Engineer - Project Manager

Prestel

(Internet industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

This was a really cool place to work, just when everyone was thinking dialup, Prestel was thinking of collecting lots of ISP, and hopefully someday getting a kick back from the telcos.....

Prestel won the ISP of the year awards, had a great support teams, and was a leader at that time, they were purchased by Scottish Telecom, who then went and bought Demon, at which point it was time for me to bid farewell..

Iqbal Gandham’s Education

UCL

MSc , Space Craft Engineering and satellite Communications , September 1994 — September 1995

I am also CISSP qualified, and studying for my MBA
University of Birmingham

BSc , Physics and Astrophysics , September 1990 — June 1993

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Iqbal Gandham’s Interests:

Football, and trance music, not both at the same time :-) I enjoy working with startups, and high powered business teams, which want to change the world.