Angel Investor, Technology Advisor
Bangalore Area, India
- Current
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- Angel Investor at Indian Angel Network
- Past
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- Executive Vice President at Yahoo! Inc
- Group Vice President & CEO at Yahoo! India R&D
- VP Engineering at Yahoo! Inc
- Education
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- State University of New York College at Buffalo
- Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)
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Venkat Panchapakesan’s Summary
I am currently an angel investor and technology advisor for early stage companies in India. I spent the last 12 years at Yahoo! and was most recently the Executive Vice President of the Audience Technology Group at Yahoo!, managing the company’s overall consumer product technology and platform strategy. I was responsible for all consumer Yahoo! products such as Mail, Flickr, Answers, Groups, Messenger, Finance, Sports, Auctions, home page, News, etc.. Most of these products were either #1 or #2 in their respective category and country. I was responsible for a 3000+strong technology team distributed across 14 countries that created and operated the products for a worldwide audience base of 550+ million users.
Since joining Yahoo! in early 1998, I have had the opportunity to envision and build a number of products and platform technologies for the company. In 2003, I moved to Bangalore, India to set up a wholly owned subsidiary for Yahoo! and became CEO of Yahoo! India R&D. I was responsible for growing the center to more than 1000 employees and produce significant value for the company. The Bangalore R&D center has become a key innovation and operational hub for the company. In 2006, I took on the additional responsibility as Group Vice President of Engineering for the Marketplaces business for Yahoo!, including Shopping, HotJobs, Travel, Maps, Local, Classifieds, Auctions and Real Estate.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, I lead a research effort on massively multi-processor (MMP) computing at Hewlett Packard and was part of a core team that created the 64-bit UNIX operating system. Prior to that, I worked at a start-up that built a software configuration management system and was acquired by Computer Associates.
I have more than 19 years of experience in the software industry and a B.E. in Electronics & Communication from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Venkat Panchapakesan’s Specialties:
Technology:
* Scalable Web Technologies
* Operating Systems
* Networking
Organizational:
* Setting up and scaling large technology organizations
* Product delivery experience
* Operating large globally distributed teams
* Setting up and scaling R&D Centers
Business Areas:
* Marketplace dynamics
* Contextual Advertisement
* Online business models
Venkat Panchapakesan’s Experience
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Angel Investor
Indian Angel Network
(Internet industry)
December 2009 — Present (1 month)
The Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures.
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Executive Vice President
Yahoo! Inc
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
January 2007 — December 2009 (3 years )
I was responsible for the technology of all consumer Yahoo! products such as Mail, Flickr, Answers, Groups, Messenger, Finance, Sports, Auctions, home page, News, etc.. Most of these products were either #1 or #2 in their respective category and country. I was responsible for a 3000+ highly technology team distributed across 14 countries that created and operated the technology to serve a worldwide audience base of 550+ million people.
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Group Vice President & CEO
Yahoo! India R&D
(Internet industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years )
Set up a wholely owned susidiary of Yahoo! Inc in Bangalore, India. and scaled it into a 1000+ product development division. Focus areas:
1. Technology Research
2. Product Development
3. New Business Initiatives
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VP Engineering
Yahoo! Inc
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; yhoo; Internet industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years )
Various engineering positions within the company. Started out as a core platform engineer. Built and managed the Y! Auctions engineering team for 2+ years. Managed or worked on various product development efforts - wallet, one-click buy, wish list, clubs, paydirect, classifieds, maps, local, shopping, travel, hotjobs.
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Member of Technical Staff
HP
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HWP; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
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Sr. Software Engineer
TeamOne
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years )
Worked on a software source configuration management tool. I was responsible for implementing a virtual filesystem to handle file versions in a variety of operating systems (hpux, nextstep, solaris, aix).
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Software Engineer
Amdahl Computers
(Computer Hardware industry)
1990 — 1993 (3 years )
Worked on porting the SVR4 Unix kernel to the Amdahl mainframe computer running a VM. Also, worked as part of the Distributed Computing working group on DCE and distributed file systems.
Venkat Panchapakesan’s Education
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State University of New York College at Buffalo
M.S , Computer Engineering , 1988 — 1990
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Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)
B.E. , Electronics & Communication , 1984 — 1988
Additional Information
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Venkat Panchapakesan’s Groups:
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Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
Venkat Panchapakesan’s Honors:
* American India Foundation (AIF) - Corporate Bridge Builder Award, 2006
* CIT Golden Jubilee (1956 -2006) - Outstanding Alumnus Award, 2006
Venkat Panchapakesan’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- business deals
- reference requests
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