Narasimha Suresh: Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Telibrahma

Suresh is one of the young generation entrepreneurs in the country, he is the brain behind Telibrahma, the company started in the year 2004 with a vision to create a consumer focused product company out of India. He ardently believes that India offers a great opportunity to create and disrupt product offerings for the global market place.

Suresh manages the overall strategy and business development of the company. He has been instrumental in filing more than 5 patents in different aspects of ‘Mobility’ for Telibrahma. He has successfully defined and positioned several products and solutions in the mobility domain for the company.

With over 12 years of association in the IT product industry, Suresh has an immense experience working in the areas of software development, marketing and sales of cuttinedge technology solutions. Prior Telibrahma, Suresh managed different roles at companies such as Siemens, Wipro, eCapital, eVector and Realsoft in varied roles. All through his career, he has spent significant time working on technology concepts like distributed computing, telecom and wireless domains.

Suresh is an engineering graduate in Electronics & Comupters from Bangalore University and MBA in Global Strategic Management , ICFAI.

Ravi B R, Co-founder and Technical Director, Telibrahma

Ravi, co-founded the company along with Suresh in the year 2004. Ravi is the technical director of the company and manages product development and deployment strategy. He has been responsible for architecting production and solutions in the enterprise mobility segment for Telibrahma. He is instrumental in bringing Bangalore Traffic Police solution conceptualization and implementation, which is been used by over 280 traffic police officers in Karanataka.

Prior joining hands with Suresh, Ravi has had stints with companies such as Majoris, Wipro, eCapital, eVector and Realsoft. With over 9 years of experience Ravi has an immense experience working in technology areas like IVR, Speech Recognition, Mobile Applications, NMS and Bluetooth.

Ravi is a graduate in computer applications from Bangalore University and MBA in Marketing from TASMAC.

Samir Kumar, Managing Director, Inventus (India) Advisory Company

Samir has been an early stage venture investor in India for the past six years. Prior to co-founding Inventus Advisory Services (India) Private Limited , Samir led the India venture team for Acer Technology Ventures. Samir has financed a number of successful Indian and Indo-US companies resulting in three profitable exits to-date.

Prior to his venture career, Samir spent 15 years in the IT industry in India in various sales, marketing and product management roles, including a stint of over 10 years in Wipro.

As a member of the Leadership Committee of Tie Bangalore, Samir spearheads the entrepreneur-mentoring initiative, which has helped mentor hundreds of entrepreneurs building new companies. Samir was an early member of the India Semiconductor Association’s Executive Council, and has been an active speaker in various fora including, Tie, CII, etc.

Samir earned a B.Tech (EE) from IIT-Bombay and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Venture Partners

Pavan has over 13 years experience across various industries such as early stage investing, consulting, venture advisory, research etc. In the recent past, he has worked with Nadathur Holdings and Investments (an early stage venture capital firm focused on technology & life sciences ventures), SRW Advisors (an advisory & mentor capital firm that worked with entrepreneurial ventures in areas such as strategy, business model/plan development, finance, mentoring etc) and Syndicated Research Group (US based research advisory firm that provided research advisory services to senior executives of Fortune 500 companies in the domains of Human Capital Strategies and Corporate Finance Strategies). In the past, Pavan has also worked as a CFO for two venture backed companies in the domain of internet applications and media besides stints with Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse in their Assurance and Advisory practices. Pavan is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Economics & Statistics