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Our team is passionate and enthusiastic, interesting in delivering the best local search results in the industry. The executives bring to the table experiences in technology, wireless, marketing and sales from several blue-chip companies including Nokia, Cisco, Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless, STMicroElectronics to name a few.
Dipanshu "D" Sharma - Founder and CEO
Over the last decade, D has enjoyed working with a variety of entrepreneurs and companies, finding innovative ways to improve technology and business models. Beginning with his time at Nokia, where he was part of several wireless initiatives for mobile handsets (browsers, user interface, developer programs and design), D began developing new wireless technologies, now holding several published patents.
After leaving Nokia, D founded V-Enable in 2001. V-Enable (www.v-enable.com) now holds a significant portion of the mobile local search and advertising market in US and is enjoying solid growth.
Aside from co-founding V-Enable, D has also co-founded Rocketalk (www.rocketalk.com), the 5th largest mobile traffic site in India, and Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), no. 1 Microsoft Project Viewer.
In November 2003, he was awarded "Technology Leader of the year" by TeleFusion and in 2005 was nominated for Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur of the year".
Craig Hagopian, President and Chief Marketing Officer
Craig Hagopian is responsible for driving V-ENABLE's daily operations, including sales, marketing and support operations as well as business development, product planning, and market communications. Mr. Hagopian brings a wealth of experience to the V-ENABLE management team with more than 18 years of sales and marketing leadership across hardware and service based companies in the personal computer, wireless and broadband Internet industries.
Prior to V-ENABLE, Mr. Hagopian was the Chief Marketing Officer of Axesstel, Inc., a San Diego-based CDMA terminal manufacturing company. At Axesstel Mr. Hagopian was responsible for overall sales, marketing and new product development, improving operating 2002 EBIT by 70% over prior year's performance through new accounts with Verizon, Sony Ericsson as well as major Latin American and Asia-Pacific wireless carriers. Notably, Mr. Hagopian was instrumental in coordinating Axesstel's investor and media activities, concluding in a round B $7M funding and a successful transition from private to public reporting status (AMEX: AFT). During his watch, stock appreciation increased by 10-fold (volume & price) and the company's market capitalization rose above $40M.
Mr. Hagopian held management positions at Air2Lan, a South East regional provider of broadband Internet services, and from 1994-2001 he was GM, VP & Sr. Director of the Consumer Group for SkyTel Communications, a wireless data messaging service entity. At SkyTel, he was responsible for developing the consumer strategy and building strategic partnerships with major retailers and telecommunications partners. Mr. Hagopian was also recognized as the only manager to meet planned business goals in fiscal year 2000 by recording 435% year-over-year growth in sales and a 3x increase in distribution points while successfully building a $34 million business unit from ground zero. From 1987-1994, Mr. Hagopian was the Manager of Market Planning and Product Management for Epson America. During his tenure he researched numerous new product opportunities and authored the market entry plan for a $150M multimedia product line which EPSON today dominates #1 Worldwide and #2 in the U.S.
Craig received his BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and his MBA from Duke University. He and his wife Lisa enjoying raising their two children: Brittany and Cole.
Chandra Kholia - Co-founder/Vice President of Engineering
Chandra is responsible for driving all Engineering activities related to the development of the veANYWAY platform. Additionally, Chandra is responsible for developing the Developer Platform, a test bed for third party vendors to develop and build voice search applications.
Previously, Chandra was a consultant with TechSpan, working with various blue-chip companies, such as Bell Atlantic, BEA, Delta Technologies, etc. Prior to that, he was working with STMicroelectronics as a Project Lead for logistics. He was responsible for various logistics implementation for the management of microelectronic devices.
Chandra received his M.S. in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, India
Sunil Kumar - Co-founder/Vice President of Product
Sunil Kumar is currently responsible for leading the technology solutions group at V-ENABLE and managing a team of exceptional engineers across the globe. Sunil Kumar has played a key role in shaping V-ENABLE's technology vision, building the company's product portfolio and delivering value to its customers. As a co-founder, he has been instrumental in developing the core technology from the concept stages and writing several patents to protect the technology. Additionally, Sunil Kumar is responsible for driving the standards effort within W3C.
Prior to V-ENABLE, Sunil was a Network Architecture Consultant at Cisco, where he worked on the router products and the IOS architecture. Prior to that, Sunil Kumar worked At UNH (University of New Hampshire) in the industry-recognized, Interoperability Labs where he participated in the rise of storage over IP industry, and worked with the storage industry leaders in bringing a quality technology to the market.
Sunil Kumar got his B.S. Mathematics from the University of Delhi, M.S Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and is currently pursuing his MBA at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
