Management

Mayur Shah, CEO

Mayur is a 25-year software industry veteran. In his previous assignment at SAP, he was President of SAP’s e-business subsidiary SAP Markets for 2 years and 6+ years as SAP AG’s Senior VP of High Tech Industry Business Unit. He was instrumental in helping SAP transition to an e-business company from a traditional ERP company. He grew SAPMarkets into a successful private and public exchange software company. As Senior VP of the High Tech Business of SAP AG, he helped grow this into a billion dollar business.
Prior to his long tenure at SAP, he was Director of Marketing & Product Planning at Promis Systems, a leading Manufacturing software company for 2+ years. He helped the company do a successful IPO. Earlier, he was Director of Industry Marketing at Consilium, also a Manufacturing software company for 6+ years, where he helped a successful IPO.
He started his career at Intel over a 7 year period in manufacturing and strategic systems, engineering and manufacturing.
Mayur holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University with graduate work in Business Administration. He holds an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University in India.

Prashant Parekh, Chairman

Prashant is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, angel investor and business leader in the High Tech industry. He is currently Chairman and CEO of diversified and successful PDP Enterprises group and is responsible for charting group’s strategy and investment in promising start-ups and young technology companies in Internet, Wireless, as well as Life Sciences domain.

Prashant is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of management experience working for HP, SGI and DEC. He has co-founded and invested in several start-ups and led them to successful exits creating significant gains for employees, management and investors.

Prashant has a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland, B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from Bombay University, and a Masters in Computer Science from University of Kansas. He also has an MBA from University of Phoenix. Mr. Parekh is a Charter member with TIE and vigorously supports philanthropic causes in healthcare and education in US and India.