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Haresh Ved
Rao Remala
Vijay Vashee
Neel Mahapatro
Sunil Pai
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Cronus is led by a highly
talented and well connected team of reputable professionals in the IT
industry. Team members bring in a high level of expertise in various
aspects of the business, including business development, product and
technical design, marketing models, revenue models, and overall
strategic planning. Among other services, we also provide consultations
and outsourcing resources.
Haresh Ved
Haresh Ved is a
20 year veteran in the IT sector. Haresh is the founder and Managing
General Partner of Cronus Ventures, LLC. Cronus was founded in 2000,
and an
early stage venture capital company investing in startups developing and
providing IT related products and services. Haresh is directly
involved in screening entrepreneurs and their ventures, performing the
necessary due diligence before making the ultimate investment
decision. A typical investment includes some level of involvement with
startups, serving as an advisory board or a board member, providing
appropriate guidance, advice and assistance to the portfolio companies.
Haresh also co-founded and was a
Director of Merritt Software Technologies, Ltd, a software
development center in Mumbai, India. Haresh built the whole team and
assisted in acquiring outsourcing contracts for the company. Haresh
established an export-import agency, ILG, Gmbh, in Germany. He played a
key fiduciary role to facilitate financing, exports and imports of
leather garments, polyester fabrics. This included dealing with banks,
partners, manufacturers and suppliers in Germany, Korea, China, and
India.
Prior to founding Cronus Ventures,
Haresh spent 10 years holding key development and leadership roles at
Microsoft Corporation, where he designed, developed, and managed
several technologies for pen-centric computing and mobility products
like Windows for Pen Computing, Windows CE, and Pocket PC. In addition,
he holds various patents in these areas. He also played a key role early
on in developing and implementing tools, technologies, and strategies to
take Microsoft products to international markets. Prior to joining
Microsoft, Haresh worked as a Research Scientist at SUNY at Stony
Brook, New York, where he was involved with and managed the team
responsible for researching and developing a low cost medical device, a
heartbeat recognition and identifying device using neural networks with
related publications with IEEE and INNS. Haresh holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering from Bombay University and a Master’s degree in
Computer Engineering from SUNY at Stony Brook.
E-mail:
HareshV@CronusVentures.com
Rao Remala
Rao Remala worked as Director, Microsoft Corporation, USA and was the
29th employee and the first Indian to write code and give shape to the
ubiquitous Microsoft Windows program. In a 21-year period with this
Microsoft, he directly reported to Bill Gates and worked on a slew of
the company's best known products - Basic, Cobol Compiler, Windows 1.0,
Windows 2.0, OLE 1.0, OLE 2.0, Office 95, Office 97. He held a range of
positions from individual contributor, to Group Manager, to Product Unit
Manager and finally Director and was an integral part of the team that
virtually defined the personal computing industry. Before Microsoft,
Remala worked at DCM, Computer R&D center and then at Hindustan
Computers Limited (HCL). Remala is currently an angel investor and
philanthropist. Remala has a Master's degree in Computer Science from
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India and a Bachelor's degree from
REC Warangal College with highest honors in the engineering program.
E-mail:
RaoR@CronusVentures.com
Vijay Vashee
Vijay Vashee was recently General Manager of the Information Technology
Group at Microsoft Corporation. Since 1982, Mr. Vijay has played key
roles at Microsoft in both the product and information technology
groups. Through this experience, he offers a unique perspective to
enterprise software product development and their rollout in Fortune 500
companies. He was a key player in several technology and company
acquisitions, resulting in the creation of Microsoft Project and
Microsoft PowerPoint as Microsoft products. As General Manager for
Project, he developed and executed the strategy that resulted in
Project's market share going from number four to number one. As General
Manager for PowerPoint, he was responsible for growing the business from
$100 million to $600 million. Vijay serves on the board of directors and
is a key investor in several technology start ups engaged in development
of enterprise software, application servers, and user software
development. Vijay holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
from IIT Bombay, a master’s degree in engineering from Cornell
University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
E-mail:
VijayV@CronusVentures.com
Sunil Pai
Sunil Pai works as Senior Program
Manager at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft for
more than 20 years.
E-mail:
SunilP@CronusVentures.com
Neel Mahapatro
Neel Mahapatro works as Director of
Development at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft
for more than 20 years.
E-mail:
NeelMah@CronusVentures.com
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