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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
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David Franks |
David Franks
Partner
David Franks is the president and cofounder of U.S. Animation Sales located in Raleigh, NC. The company is five 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.
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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:
• Exclusive Agency Arrangement with CMIC – China for selling their Trailers and Containers in Africa.
• Exclusive Agency Arrangement with a Bitumen Trading Company in UAE for selling their products in Kenya.
• Agency Arrangement with Chinese Mobile Handset Manufacturers for selling them in USA, UK and UAE.
• Managing Partner of a Web Portal that is based on a Social and Family Networking Concept
• CFO and Investor of a Hair and Wig reselling company based in Londont
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Prem Prakash |
Prem Prakash
Partner
A retired Naval Officer, with extensive experience in Oil and Gas Industry in Norway
Prem Prakash took premature retirement from the Indian Navy in 1976 after 26 years of naval service even though he was cleared for promotion to higher ranks. He was educated in England first as a Mechanical Engineer and then as a Naval Architect at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich which also educates for the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors UK.
After eight years in UK he returned to India and besides other appointments served as Head of the Construction Department in Bombay Naval Dockyard and as Deputy Director of Naval Design in New Delhi. After leaving the Navy he immigrated to Norway in 1976 and has been working in oil and gas sector. He retired as Principal Engineer after 23 years service in Statoil (major Oil Company in the world). He, through the years, has built up a comprehensive network both in Norway and India. He is now heads his own company, INERG A/S (Indo Norwegian Resource Group)
He is service minded and will appreciate any approach giving him the opportunity to share from his knowledge about Norway
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