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The Board of Directors are as follows:
Mr. Farrokh K. Captain is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. After completing his Masters in Management and Chemical Engineering he worked as a Management Consultant with Arthur D. Little and established their practice in Pakistan. He has also led a major chemical manufacturing industry in Pakistan and been a director of Shell Pakistan Ltd and the American Business Council of Pakistan. He retired from active business at the age of 50 and has spent the years since exclusively in the field of social work. He is a Trustee of Layton Rehmatulla Benevolent Trust, and Chairman of the Friends of LRBT, as well as being associated in various capacities with the Doon School of Society of Pakistan, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, The Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, The Sandal School and has a 28 years relationship of representing MIT in Pakistan.
Dr. Zahir Ali Syed, is a highly qualified and experienced IT professional with over 27 years of experience in IT Solutions & Consultancy, Software Development, IT Education and Computer Aided Design (CAD). Currently he is Chairman of Avanza Solutions, Pakistan; an international software organization, that delivers state-of-art, small scale to enterprise level solutions in the e-Banking, eCRM and e-Business areas. Avanza has offices in New York, Madrid, Dubai, Doha and Karachi. He is a Board Member of the National ICT R&D Fund, a company under MoIT which aims to establish an R&D culture in the ICT sector of Pakistan. He is also Co-Chairman of the MITCEF (MIT Club of Pakistan Enterprise Forum) an organization that aims to promote the establishment of Entrepreneurial Eco-System in Pakistan. Previously he was the Director of Karachi Institute of Information Technology and helped establish and manage the ABM Group of Companies that provided IT solutions to the Pakistan Market. He got a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computer Aided Design, from University of Southern California (USC) and Stanford University and MS degree again in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mr. Azhar Rizvi has been associated with the Information technology industry for almost two decades. During this period he has served at prestigious Multinational Organizations including NCR, AT&T and Unisys in Pakistan. He is the founding Director of THK Technology Group & served as the Group COO and Director from 2001 till 2008. The Group is a consortium of three Technology companies with expertise in Software development, BPO, ICT Risk Assurance, Six Sigma, Human Capital Management, and CRM.
He is currently working as the CEO and Director of TAN America Fund, the first Angel fund established in the US with the primary objective of investing in the Pakistani IT firms. He is also a member of the Board of Director of Cambridge Advisers Network.
In the social sector Mr. Rizvi is the
- District Chairman for Technical Education and Vocational Training of Rotary District 3270, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Founding Vice Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan (www.mitef-pakistan.org),
- Founding Member of Board of DAISY for All, Pakistan (www.daisy.org ), a world wide consortium for technology based learning for the blind and vision impaired and has established 5 centers of expertise in Pakistan. The centers are now converting books, periodicals for the vision impaired community.
- Chairperson CSR Committee of Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) www.pasha.org.
- Member Advisory Council Rashidabad Memorial, (www.rashidabad.org)
- Member Board of Advisors to the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Sindh, Pakistan.
- Member , Pakistan Innovation Board (www.competitiveness.org.pk/pib/)
Mr. Rizvi is an MBA from the University of Houston and M.Com from University of Karachi.
Imran Sayeed leads the Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) practice for Keane, a global BPO and IT Services company with ~10,000 professionals worldwide. (NYSE: KEA). FSI is the largest vertical at Keane, with a majority of the top 100 global banks and insurance carriers as clients, and billable professionals across the US, Canada, UK & India. Sayeed came to Keane through its acquisition of netNumina, a boutique technology strategy and consulting form that he founded and grew from a 15 person startup to one of Computerwold's Top 100 emerging companies. netNumina won more than 30 of the leading financial services & pharmaceutical institutions in the world as clients, raised more than $25MM from venture capitalists and strategic investors and received more than 20 industry awards for its work.
Sayeed has over fifteen years of experience in software and services. Previously, as a founder of Open Environment, Sayeed helped pioneer multi-tier client server technology, and grew the company from a 10-person startup to an IPO and leadership in the middleware market.
Sayeed has written and spoken extensively in leading industry conferences and trade journals over the last 13 years on entrepreneurship, e-business, financial services, insurance and technology. Sayeed serves on the Advisory Board of several software and private equity companies. Sayeed also holds a patent on technology for providing secure financials transactions over the Internet that he jointly developed with Citigroup. He is currently a visiting professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he teaches in the MBA program on technology business strategy.
Sayeed attended Brown University where he majored in Engineering, and Harvard University, where he did post-graduate work in business, marketing and product development.
Ken is the Managing Director of MIT Entrepreneurship Center. As Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken Morse leads the MIT effort to develop leaders to bring innovative concepts and technologies to market and build successful new high tech start-up businesses. He co-teaches a Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship: Technology Sales and Sales Management and the Entrepreneurship Laboratory course, in which teams of engineering, science, and MBA students work on important problems in startup ventures that are "keeping the CEO awake at night." He studies the use of corporate venture investing to achieve strategic advantage, and the international sales and marketing challenges faced by fast-growing high tech firms.
Ken currently serves on the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
In addition to China Capital Ventures, he is also on the Advisory Boards of PolyTechnos Venture-Partners (Munich), Darby Technology Ventures Group LLC, SINTEF A/S (Trondheim, Norway), Lagan Technologies Ltd. ( Belfast, Ireland) and Meridio Ltd. (Belfast, Ireland). Ken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bill Aulet is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT he worked at Viisage as Chief Financial Officer. Before Viisage he had 20 years of operating experience. He most recently served as President of SensAble Technologies, a 3D Force Feedback Systems Company, where he was responsible for all aspects of business including the role of the CFO. Before joining SensAble, Aulet also founded Cambridge Decision Dynamics where he served as President for two years. Prior to this, he worked at IBM for over ten years in various management and executive positions including Manager of Finance and Planning for IBM's $900 million New England region. His career at IBM included various positions in the systems engineering, marketing and sales functions as well. A Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, Aulet holds a Bachelors in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and a Masters in Management Sciences through the prestigious Sloan Fellow program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Naeem is currently on the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of California Berkeley where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the MBA program. He has extensive experience in working with sales and marketing executives and coaching them. Under Concordia Ventures he focuses on educating and advising entrepreneurs with all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem has been with six startups and has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching CEOs by helping start nine companies and having advised over 40 entrepreneurs.
His last assignment was the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology. Naeem has been president and CEO of two other high tech startups (Silicon Design Systems and Veridicom, a Bell Labs spin-off that invented the silicon fingerprint sensors today found on most laptops). Naeem has held senior sales, marketing and engineering positions at several companies including Quickturn Design Systems that had an IPO in 1993 and grew to $125M in revenues. Naeem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), Rhode Island, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Naeem is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and charter member of OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) where he also serves as a member of the executive committee. He is a frequent speaker on all topics related to high-tech sales, marketing and entrepreneurship.
Imran has worked at large and small, public and private companies. In 1999 he co-founded and was VP of Engineering at MessageMachines, Inc., a Boston-based startup focused on mobile & wireless messaging and data market. The company was acquired by NMS Communications in April 2002, where he worked until the end of 2003. More recently, he first advised and mentored Scrybe, a Web 2.0 startup, and then joined full-time as an interim executive helping them raise a large angel round closing in April 2007. In 2007, he also worked as VP of Engineering at LegiTime Communications, creating the VC-funded company’s technical strategy and product specs, and managed outsourced development under tight deadlines.
Startup MessageMachines was focused on simplifying personal communications in the era of proliferating mobile communication devices, methods and channels.
At NMS, he architected the subscriber and content management systems for NMS MyCaller “ringback tone” (RBT) product, available since 2004, deployed by more than thirty mobile operators across six continents. Vodafone Global selected NMS as the preferred RBT vendor, and several Vodafone op cos have deployed MyCaller. For RBT, he interacted intensively with mobile operators, and OEM and content partners in Europe, Asia and North America. As Director of Messaging Technology, he drove NMS’s strategy and development of text messaging platforms for the wireless market. He led a team that partnered with IMG, the world’s premier sports and lifestyle marketing & management firm, to trial a text messaging & voice infotainment service for fans of Professional Bull Riders.
He was VP of Engineering at SoftLinx, Inc. focused on enterprise Internet-based fax messaging products. Prior to this Imran has worked at Lotus (now IM), Digital Equipment Corp. (now HP) and Philips.
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