Meet the Board of Directors and Advisors

Ramani Kothandaraman

Chairman of Board
Ramani Kothandaraman has more than 18 years of experience,of which he has 13 in management and delivery positions including Symantec, Veritas, IBM, LogicaCMG and TCS. Before moving to enterprises, Ramani was Assistant Director in the Cabinet Secretariat for 5 years and a Research Scientist with Department of Space for 2 years, (govt of India). Ramani holds a degree in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Jabalpur and Masters from Cranfield University U.K.

Jaspreet Singh

Jaspreet is a co-founder and CEO of Druva. An entrepreneur at heart, he bootstrapped the company while defining the product, sales and marketing strategies that have resulted in Druva’s early and impressive success. Prior to founding Druva, Jaspreet was a member of the storage foundation group at Veritas. He also held a number of engineering specific roles at Ensim Corporation. Jaspreet holds a Bachelors in Comp. Sc. (BTech) from IIT Guwahati.

Shailendra Singh

Shailendra is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Shailendra was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in New York. Earlier, Shailendra was an entrepreneur in the digital media industry. Shailendra received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Mumbai. Shailendra is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Yoram Novick

Yoram is the Founder, CEO and President of Maxta, a stealth mode startup. Yoram founded and served as the CEO and President of Topio, an enterprise data protection company from its inception and until it was acquired by NetApp in 2006. He has also served in a variety of executive and technical leadership positions with NetApp and IBM Research. He is the author or co-author of 24 patents, 14 of which were issued in the United States. Yoram holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is a Principal at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and US, investing in innovative early to early-growth stage companies. He brings several years of investing and operating expertise in hi-technology start-ups. His interests span software, cloud computing, internet, digital and social media, mobile, and systems. Jishnu’s investments include Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), Gluster (acquired by Red Hat), Vdopia, Kaltura, and Druva.

Jishnu is an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he ran the Venture Capital Club and co-led GSB Principal Investing Conference. Jishnu also holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BTech from IIT Kharagpur, and is an inventor of more than a dozen US patents.