Gary Mendel is a recognized international marketing and sales leader with over 20 years experience in the mobile and software industries where he consistently exceeded revenue targets at both Fortune 500 and early stage companies.

Mr. Mendel previously served as the Global Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Zi Corporation, a NASDAQ traded provider of predictive text messaging software, where he drove 15 quarters of consecutive revenue growth shipping product on over 100M devices from 98 licensees around the world. He also held executive level positions at Macromedia - VP World-Wide Sales, Mobile and Devices - and at Sybase - Sr. Director of North American Sales, Telecom - where he secured early stage mobile software licensing deals with wireless carriers, handset OEMs and leading mobile infrastructure and applications technology providers.

For over 13 years Mr. Mendel held executive marketing, sales and general management positions with top tier wireless carriers in the United States. At Sprint PCS he launched the sales channels for the San Francisco market building revenues to over $150M and as Sr. Director of the Western Region he lead the team that significantly contributed to a 70% increase in revenue to over $1B. He held various sales and general management positions at AirTouch and McCaw Cellular (Cellular One) managing a P&L in excess of $70M.

Mr. Mendel has an MBA from Baylor University and a B.S. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He currently resides in Dublin, CA with his wife and two children.

Venkateswaran (Venkat) is responsible for engineering and product delivery at Spime. Venkateswaran holds double Masters with major in science and software systems from the M K University and BITS respectively. Before joining Spime, he served as a Director of Engineering for Emuzed (which was acquired by Flextronics International), a leader in Mobile phone applications and helped develop various core technologies as well as deliver solutions to tier-1 mobile phone manufacturers. Previously, he led the Dazzle Multimedia software team in India for SCM Microsystems and developed commercially successful retail products. He was also a lead member at Shuttle Technologies (which later got acquired by SCM Microsystems) and pioneered connectivity and mass storage solutions. He also held positions in Aurelec Data Processing Systems and Nexus Computers.

Venkat has worked closely with tier-1 companies such as Sony, Motorola, Samsung, Sandisk, Apple, Iomega, LSI Logic, Flextronics etc., and delivered successful products. Venkat has managed high caliber technology and development teams and has built teams from the ground up to medium and large sized engineering teams. He has tremendous knowledge and experience in engineering processes, TQM and human resource values by nurturing technical excellence and implementing systems and practices. Venkat has been a champion in implementing CMM level 4 processes in his previous incarnations. Venkat understands the complete product development cycle, customer expectations and deployment challenges. Venkat has successfully deployed numerous consumer grade products and applications under major international brand names. Being a software architect himself, Venkat has represented his previous organizations in several bodies. He also actively participates in various technology forums.

Dr.Enge advised the corporations on issues related to wireless communications and avionics. Most significant relationships are with SiRF, Rosum and Dr. Enge also served as an advisory board member at @road in the initial stage which was acquired by Trimble later.

Dr. Enge is also a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ION and the IEEE. Per holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Massachusetts, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Illinois and PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Illinois.

Dr. Hartmut is the founder of the famous “Frog Design” of Germany and later he expanded the company to the United States in 1982. Dr. Hartmut was the first designer to bring human-driven, high-touch design to world of complex hardware and software technology. Business Week – where he also was featured on the cover in 1990 - called him the most influential American industrial designer since the 1930s and the first Superstar of High-Tech Design. Hartmut designed some of the most prestigious global companies products IDs and in some cases such as Sony, Apple, Louis Vuitton, SAP and Lufthansa he helped them to convert their technological competences and entrepreneurial desire into global brands.

Together with his partner and wife Patricia Roller he built Frog Design into the world’s most prominent and successful strategic design agency. In 2005, Flextronics acquired the majority of frog and since 2006 frog is a business unit of Aricent, owned by prestigious private equity pioneer KKR. Today, Frog Design employs about 400 strategists, designers and technology specialists in nine studios around the world. Dr. Hartmut also engages in educating and mentoring young designers: he is a founding professor of the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung (College for Design) in Karlsruhe, Germany and since 2006, he is a professor for convergent industrial design at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and he received a honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from the Parson School of Design, New York as well as various lifetime awards around the world.

Vinod (Vin) is a Founding Managing Director at IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP), based in Santa Clara, USA. Prior to founding IndoUS Venture Partners, Vin got his initial exposure to India by managing a cross border incubator, NewPath Ventures LLC, that leveraged India's high-skilled, low-cost talent as R & D for US based start-ups. Earlier, Vin was the Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Spice, a start-up that was eventually sold to Broadcom for $1.2 billion. He was also the Chief Operating Officer at NexGen and was instrumental in its successful sale to AMD for $800m. Before his start-up stints, Vin was a senior executive at Intel and is known as the "Father of Pentium" for his contributions to leading that project from inception to its outstanding success. During his 16 years at Intel, he successfully managed multi-billion dollar revenue products in the 386, 486, and Pentium processor families and was co-inventor of Intel's flash technology.

Vin has received numerous recognitions over the years. He was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America, and also named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. Vin served on the US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under President Bill Clinton. Vin has been active in supporting several non-profit organizations and has received the Visionary Award from the American India Foundation for his contributions to their Digital Equalizer Program. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents. He has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

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