Sashi Chimala
Sashi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of strong IT and Retail experience. He was part of the founding team of Covansys (NASD: CVNS), founder of Indigo Technologies (acquired in a 2-way deal between SSI and NASDAQ and returned 3x to investors). Most recently he was the founder of Qwiky's Coffee, a pioneering retail venture in Asia.

As an entrepreneur and angel investor himself, Sashi has prior experience in successfully nurturing companies from a start-up level to successful enterprises. His strengths include putting together a strong team and partnerships to de-risk new ventures.

Sashi has been featured and quoted by international press and the media including CNN, BBC, Star network, Asian Week, International Herald Tribune, Economic Times, Business World and several others.


Roel Pieper
Business Week called him "The High Tech's Transatlantic link. He serves as the interpreter to the two richest economies on earth, the U.S., and Europe".

Roel Pieper has over 25 years of operating experience with software and technology companies. He was Senior Vice President of Strategy at Philips N.V. from 1998-1999. Prior to that, he was the President and CEO of Tandem Computers Inc., the largest fault-tolerant computer vendor with revenues in excess of $2 billion in 1995, backed by Kleiner Perkins. While at Tandem, he was responsible for a turnaround initiative that resulted in a trade sale to Compaq Computer Corporation. That transaction resulted in the creation of over $3 billion of market value during his tenure. Prior to becoming CEO of Tandem in 1995, he was CEO of UB Networks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tandem, which provides data communication products. UB Networks was sold during his tenure to Newbridge Networks for $150 million. From 1990 to 1993, he was CEO of Unix Systems Laboratories ("USL"), a company that developed and marketed the Unix operating system, a former AT&T subsidiary. While at USL, he drove the first official spinout from AT&T, which resulted in a trade sale to Novell, Inc. for $323 million.

Roel began his software career at Software AG where he spent 10 years in the US and Germany (from 1980 to 1990) during which time he became Chief Technology Officer of the company. Software AG is considered one of the earliest software companies in Europe and at one time was the second largest global software company. He was formerly a Director of Computer Associates (CA) from 1999-2002 and Veritas Software (VTRS) from 1991-1998 (venture-backed by Accel Partners and USL), and several other technology companies. In 2000, he was selected to chair the restart of Lernout and Hauspie, representing equity shareholders including Microsoft and Intel. He was also an early investor in Lightstream (sold to Cisco), Globeset (sold to Trintech), Seebeyond (NASDAQ: SBYN) and Tivo (NASDAQ: TIVO). He has advised the Dutch government on technology related projects. Roel received his doctorate degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Delft, Netherlands, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Tandem computers, while under the leadership of Roel, took a minority stake in Indigo Technologies, founded by Sashi Chimala.