Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay was a founder of Digital Envoy where he led the strategic vision of the company most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer and previously as the CEO. Sanjay is also the original inventor of Digital Envoy's patented NetAcuity IP intelligence technology. Digital Envoy was acquired by Landmark Communications in June 2007.

Sanjay has served as an expert consultant for numerous startups, corporations, and organizations including the Department of Justice.

In 2004, Sanjay was named an Outstanding Young Atlantan by Outstanding Atlanta, one of the "Top 40 Under 40" Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine, and a 2004 American Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2003, Sanjay was named to MIT's Technology Review TR100 list as one of the top 100 young innovators of 2003 and one of the "Top 50 Entrepreneurs" in Atlanta by Catalyst Magazine. Sanjay was also named a Technology Pioneer with the World Economic Forum in 2002 and 2003.

Sanjay has an electrical engineering degree, specializing in computer engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Sanjay also holds an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

1. Entrepreneurship
2. Angel Investing
3. Venture Capital
4. Strategy
5. Business Development

• Systems and methods for determining collecting and using geographic locations of internet users

  • United States Patent 6,757,740
  • Issued March 31, 2000
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman, Neal Tibrewala, Ben Lutch

  A method of determining a geographic location of an Internet user involves determining if the host is on-line, determining ownership of the host name, and then determining the route taken in delivering packets to the user. Based on the detected route, the method proceeds with determining the geographic route based on the host locations and then assigning a confidence level to the assigned location. A system collects the geographic information and allows web sites or other entities to request the geographic location of their visitors. The database of geographic locations may be stored in a central location or, alternatively, may be at least partially located at the web site. With this information, web sites can target content, advertising, or route traffic depending upon the geographic locations of their visitors. Through web site requests for geographic information, a central database tracks an Internet user's traffic on the Internet whereby a profile can be generated. In addition to this profile, the central database can store visitor's preferences as to what content should be delivered to an IP address, the available interface, and the network speed associated with that IP address.

• Systems and methods for determining, collecting, and using geographic locations of internet users

  • United States Patent 7,403,978
  • Issued January 24, 2006
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman, Neal Tibrewala, Ben Lutch

• Systems and methods for determining, collecting, and using geographic locations of internet users

  • United States Patent 7,451,233
  • Issued February 24, 2004
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman, Neal Tibrewala, Ben Lutch

• Geo-intelligent traffic reporter

  • United States Patent 7,685,311
  • Issued March 25, 2002
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman

  A traffic reporter gathers real-time information on traffic conditions within a network and sends out traffic reports to traffic managers. The traffic reporter analyzes the network and also gathers network information from the traffic managers and analyzers dispersed throughout the network. These traffic reports provide real-time information on network conditions to allow the traffic managers to route network traffic in the most efficient, reliable, and fastest manner.

• Geo-intelligent traffic manager

  • United States Patent 7,844,729
  • Issued November 30, 2010
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman, Ben Lutch

  A traffic manager determines the geographic locations of end points on Internet traffic and routes the traffic in the most efficient manner. A set of analyzers may be disposed to analyze the network, such as the geographic locations of nodes in the network, latency times and speed between nodes, available bandwidth, etc. The traffic manager obtains this intelligence on the network from the analyzers and routes traffic accordingly. The traffic manager considers not only the most direct route but also considers the speed, available bandwidth, and reliability of the routing. The traffic manager can be disposed any within the network, such as part of DNS service or as an HTTP redirect. Thus, the traffic manager can be implemented in routers, switches, sprinklers, load balancers, DNS server, or other servers. In modeling the network traffic and behavior, the traffic manager may simply portions of the network and employ probability and statistics in approximating the network behavior.

• Systems and methods for determining, collecting, and using geographic locations of internet users

  • United States Patent 7,698,377
  • Issued March 2, 2005
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman, Neal Tibrewala, Ben Lutch

• Geo-intelligent router

  • Europe Patent EP1699189
  • Issued September 6, 2006
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh, Rob Friedman

• Geo-intelligent traffic reporter

  • United States Patent 8,060,606
  • Issued November 15, 2011
  Inventors: Sanjay Parekh

  A traffic reporter gathers real-time information on traffic conditions within a network and sends out traffic reports to traffic managers. The traffic reporter analyzes the network and also gathers network information from the traffic managers and analyzers dispersed throughout the network. These traffic reports provide real-time information on network conditions to allow the traffic managers to route network traffic in the most efficient, reliable, and fastest manner.

Websites:

• My Website
• Startup Riot
• About.me

Honors and Awards:

• Named one of the "Top 40, Under 40" Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine (2004)
• Named to the TR100 list (top innovators) by MIT's Technology Review magazine (2003)
• Named one of the "Top 50 Entrepreneurs" in Atlanta by Catalyst Magazine (2003)
• Awarded European Patent EP1699189 - "Geo-intelligent router"
• Kauffman Fellowship finalist