| India :: Partners |
 Arvind Jha |
Arvind Jha Partner Arvind Jha has 20 years of software product development and senior management and business experience with leading Indian and US software companies. Arvind Jha has built, managed and led significant engineering teams, has spearheaded business and technical development of multimedia brand products, and has been involved in all aspects of remote engineering from component delivery to full product engineering and solutions implementation. Most recently, Arvind was President at technology startup company, Monsoon Multimedia, where he led the India team in development of HAVA, the world’s first product that integrates video time-shifting and place-shifting. Monsoon was recognized by NASSCOM as one of India’s Most Innovative Product Company for 2006 – an honor gained within 2 years of startup. Prior to joining Monsoon Multimedia, Arvind Jha was with Adobe India where, over a seven year period, he was instrumental in building the Adobe India R&D campus from under 10 engineers to over 400. His multiple roles at Adobe India included: Director - Engineering, where he built and led teams in delivering components and had full product responsibilities for such leading products as PageMaker, FrameMaker & PhotoDeluxe; Entrepreneur-in-residence, where he spearheaded the development of photo albums for mobile devices and Director – Solution Partner Sales where he innovated and built a new go-to-market model using leading Indian SIs to adopt and support Adobe’s Intelligent Document Platform offerings for global customers, delivering over $1m in revenues in the first year. Before Adobe, Arvind Jha worked as Principal, Software Engineering at Polaroid India Private Ltd., leading the team responsible for delivering key software components for digital cameras, printers and imaging applications. Earlier in his career, Arvind Jha founded Intelligent Automation Systems which built a Multimedia publishing engine and created CD-ROM titles with Indian content. Arvind Jha received a B. Tech (Hons) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India |
 Abhijit Roy |
Abhijit Roy Partner Abhijit Roy worked as a senior executive with Unilever for 16 years and started his own financial consultancy services in 1990. His expertise includes bench marking, supply chain management, payment systems, banking, financial services, acquisitions and mergers . He has worked in more than 10 countries and pioneered in high tech payment systems for Africa in 2003 with participation of Visa and MasterCard International. Currently he is based in Canada and deals with corporate re-structuring ,taxation, business succession, Investments, estate planning, acquisition and mergers. |
David Franks |
David Franks Partner David Franks is the president and cofounder of U.S. Animation Sales located in Raleigh, NC. The company is two years old, and offers animation production services, distribution and funding for animated properties; with offices in Korea, Malaysia, Spain, India and the US. We have worked on projects for Nick Jr., Disney, PBS and more. Past employment includes Art Director at Midway Games, Art Director at Magnet Intereactive Studies, Art Director at Random Games, Lead Artist at Jaleco and VR1, and Animation Director for a Marvel property, “Daredevil”. David has worked on many high profile licensed properties such as, “Gladiator”, “Highlander” and “Daredevil”. David was a cofounder of an animation studio in Raleigh NC in the 1980’s called CyberKids. He also created the pirate mascot for East Carolina University. |
 Hasnain Mohamadali |
Hasnain Mohamadali Partner Mr. Hasnain have had a successful career in the corporate world of Financial Management, Banking and Foreign Exchange Markets spanning over 18 years holding Senior Management positions for over a decade. With a Degree in Financial Accountancy and Audit, Hasnain have been always involved in the developing of new areas and products in numerous parts of the world, namely Hong Kong, Dubai, United Kingdom and India, having lived in all these regions for substantial length of time over the past 18 years. Currently the founder and Managing Director of IWP – a concept that has been derived from the desire to explore areas and activities that can only be achieved by working on them through a networking model of business where common synergies and skills of certain individuals are pooled together to form a consortium and conduct a particular business activity. The end result and benefit is thereafter shared by the contributors of the consortium. This could be on on-going operation or a one-off one-time deal. Presently actively involved in the following areas of activities:
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