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Management Profile
smartData's management has been a mix of youth and experience with management coming from varied background and experiences which have been diversified and spread across the globe. The investor and management profile comes from India and US with educational background from India, US and UK

Dr. Sanjai Tiwari - Director/Chairman
Dr. Sanjai Tiwari brings in business and technology expertise from the Silicon Valley. He has technology experience working for US clients including Bank of America, Global star / Qualcomm, Investools, Sentius Corporation, Netpulse Communications and Home Shopping Network.

He has done his B Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has filed 3 patents related to database optimization, management of digital offers and purchase management for electronic commerce. Sanjai also founded an e-commerce startup in 1999 - ccRewards.com. He originally conceived the idea, put together business and engineering teams, and raised multi-million dollar financing within a short span of one year. Sanjai serves as the chairman of the board for smartData Enterprises.

Sanjai holds a PhD in Computer Aided Engineering, Stanford University and a MS in Computer Science with database specialization.

Ajay Tiwari - CEO
Ajay Tewari, Chief Executive Officer of smartData Enterprises India Limited, a steadily growing company in the region, is a B. Tech./HND in International Shipping and Trade, from University of Liverpool, U.K. and a Bachelor of Nautical Sciences from Bombay University. Ajay was a founder member and a working Director of SDEI since its inception in 1999. Going up the ladder through positions of Chief Operating Officer, &Vice President, he took the reins of the company as its CEO in the year 2004. He brought to the company entrepreneurial skills, where his background experience endowed the company with foresight and vision. Before moving into the software Ajay served a long 11 years stint in merchant navy with reputed international shipping companies, and has worked with many nationalities throughout the globe. Skillfully managing and maximizing men, market and time, and the efficiency and results, he landed in the software industry running. He has amply demonstration those acquired skills, and his innate business acumen to elevate SDEI, into a well knit, well controlled and well organized company, which is always up to step with the emerging technology and trends. The company has seen more than 100% growth in less than one year from the time of his inception as CEO of smartData in 2004.
Email: atewari@smartdatainc.net

Dr. Ashish Gupta
Ashish has extensive experience in software development and related technologies. Prior to joining Woodside Fund, he was an active advisor and investor in several information technology companies, working with the entrepreneurs and management teams on all aspects of their businesses. Ashish was Founder, Vice President of Engineering, and Director of Junglee Corporation, a data integration software company. Junglee was an early pioneer of the web services business model and was acquired by Amazon.com for $230 million in 1998. Ashish was responsible for engineering and operations, and he helped grow the company from 5 to 70 people. Before Junglee, Ashish was Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation, and also held technical research positions at IBM and Stanford University. He is the holder of seven patents and has written and presented numerous papers at international conferences, including a book published by MIT Press. Ashish has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a B.A. in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal. In addition to traveling, Ashish likes watching theater, playing racquet sports, and woodworking.
Email: ashishg@smartdatainc.net

Mason Brutchy
Mason has over 25 years of experience in the financial, administrative, and operational areas of a broad range of firms spanning technology, biotech, retail, and property management. He is presently the VP Finance and Administration at perfect.com . Prior to joining Perfect, Mason was CFO and also served as co-CEO of Fidus Medical Technologies.

Prior to Fidus, he was CFO of Air Communications, a supplier of wireless Internet products and services. He has also held senior financial positions with Safeway Corporation, the Fairmont Hotel Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures, a Palo Alto VC firm. Mason began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick. He is a Certified Public Accountant, and earned his BA and MBA from the UC Berkeley.
Email: masonb@smartdatainc.net

Dr. Ranjit Mand
Dr. Ranjit Mand is the CTO, optical components at Comstellar Technologies. He has extensive experience in fiber optic communications, spanning everything from teaching graduate courses, to research and development, engineering management, marketing, new business development, and entrepreneurship. He has held positions at Bell Northern Research in Canada, Toshiba Corporation in Japan , and AT&T Bell Labs and Furukawa Electric in the U.S.A.

He helped create Optical Communications Products, Inc., an active data link manufacture, and served on the company's Board for 3 years. More recently, he was instrumental in forming three startups: Cinta Corporation, a DWDM telecom products manufacturer, Tera Fiberoptics, Inc., a DWDM passive components manufacturer, and Axcel Photonics, Inc., a high power laser diode manufacturer. He holds 6 patents, and is a recipient of The Insignia Award given for work in optoelectronics devices. A graduate of British universities, he has a BS in Physics with Solid State Electronics, an MS in Microelectronics, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Email: ranjitm@smartdatainc.net