Paul Pandian

Paul Pandian is a serial entrepreneur with many successful technology and non-technology startups. He has over 40 years of technical and business management experience. He founded Axes Technologies, a telecom software services company, in 1990 in Richardson, Texas with operations in India and employed over 1000+ personnel. He served as the Chairman & CEO of Axes. In 2005, Axes was acquired by Tech Mahindra where he is currently the Advisor and was the former President of Tech Mahindra (Americas). He was also the Chairman of Glow Networks which was acquired in 2010 by CSS, Inc.

Before starting Axes, Paul was involved in the startup and growth of a high technology company engaged in the design and development of high performance computers and peripheral cards. Prior to that he was the Director of Strategic Planning for Rockwell International.s Electronic Operations.

Paul is the Chairman of Transglobal Technologies, Inc., a holding company that has business investments in U.S. and India. His interests include Floriculture, Agro Products, and Media & Entertainment industries. He is a promoter of Shipco, a Logistic Special Economic Zone, India.

He also serves on the Board of the Greater Dallas Indo American Chamber of Commerce and is a Board Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Dallas). He serves on the Advisory Council of the Management School of The University of Texas at Dallas and on the Board of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a Board Member of the Dallas World Affairs Council.

Paul Pandian has BS in Engineering from India and has MS in engineering from Syracuse University. He has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Siva Chaturvedi

Siva has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications and information technology industry. Before starting damaka, Siva was a Partner at Prodea, a venture capital firm where he identified investment opportunities, sourced deals and performed due diligence of new ventures seeking early and mid-round financing. Prior to Prodea, Siva was a Director at telecom technologies inc., which was subsequently acquired by Sonus Networks where he continued to lead the professional services division. During his tenure at tti, he has worked with several large corporations like MCI, Qwest, Agilent Technologies, and British Telecom JV in various senior management capacities performing strategic planning and business development. Earlier to telecom technologies, Siva had performed senior technical roles at Ericsson in their data and voice switching platforms.

Siva has six issued and eleven pending US patents in the area of voice and data networking. He holds a BS in Computer Science Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and has done advanced coursework in Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University and has an MBA from Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Satish Gundabathula

Satish has over 15 years of experience in Telecommunications and Real-Time distributed Systems. Before starting damaka, Satish was a consultant at Verizon where he architected a system for interfacing into PBX, CTI systems and VoIP Platform. Prior to Verizon, Satish was part of the Class 5 SoftSwitch design and architecture team at telecom technologies inc., which was subsequently acquired by Sonus Networks where he continued to work on SIP. Earlier to telecom technologies, Satish was the lead architect for building NEC's next generation NMS Software for their ATM Switches. Prior to NEC, Satish was a lead architect at AVL, a leader in engine test/instrumentation systems. At a very early stage in his career, Satish was an intern at Indian Space Research Organization, working on VDM (The Vienna Development Method).

Satish has five issued and sixteen pending US patents in the area of Peer-to-Peer and Voice Over IP. He earned his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Kerala, India and an MS in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.