Advisory Panel

Benjamin Linder
Former Vice President Marketing,
Openwave Systems, Inc.

Ben was most recently head of Marketing at Phone.com. He joined Phone.com in 1996 and was appointed as Vice President of Marketing. After the merger of Phone.com and Software.com, Ben served as Vice President of Marketing of the combined entity - Openwave Systems.

Prior to joining Phone.com, Ben was Vice President of Marketing at Oracle Corporation. He co-founded and was responsible for Oracle's New Media Division. Prior to working in the New Media division of Oracle, Ben was Director of Technical Services for the massively parallel processing technology at Oracle.

Ben also serves on the Board of Advisors at PacketVideo and Emark Solutions.

Ben holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science,
Stanford University

Rajeev is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 1988.

Rakeev is known for his research in several areas of computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books used at universities all over the world -- Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. As a tribute to his work, Rajeev has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and currently serves on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Computing and the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 

Not solely an academic, Rajeev has extensive industry experience as a board member or technical advisor to companies such as DotEdu Ventures, Google, Jumpstartup Ventures, Radik, and Vhayu. He is a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs).