Pankaj Gulati CEO and Chairman
Prior to becoming the CEO and Chairman, Pankaj was the VP of Operations at MoreMagic where he was responsible for Product Management, Pre-sales, Customer Support, and Contracts. Previously, Pankaj was the Director of Wireless Intelligent Network Applications at Lucent Technologies, where he was a part of the management team that grew the business to $150M with over 50 customers worldwide in 3 years. With Lucent, Pankaj deployed Network Care and Customer Care solutions for Sprint PCS, AT&T, Alltel, US Cellular, Cingular, Telefonica, and Telecom Italia. Pankaj holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and has completed the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Pankaj is a frequent speaker at the Babson College Executive Education Program.
Chris Manos Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Chris has been CFO at a number of successful venture-backed companies, starting with Hampshire Chemical, an LBO/MBO of W.R. Grace's Organic Chemicals division in Lexington, MA where Chris had been CFO. After selling Hampshire Chemical to Sentrachem several years later, he became CFO of Imagitas, a highly successful and award-winning company that was sold to Pitney Bowes. Before joining MoreMagic in 2006, Chris was CFO of NxStage Medical, a company that developed a novel device for the treatment of kidney failure. The company went public late in 2005. Chris has extensive experience with venture debt, raising capital from VCs, building business plans, contracting, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as HR and legal functions. His BA in chemistry from Bowdoin College was granted magna cum laude, and he earned an MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentrations in Finance and Industrial Relations. Chris earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Suffolk University in 2010. He is a member of Financial Executives International and lives in Lincoln, MA with his wife and two sons.
Satyen Hombali Vice President - International Recharge
Satyen's experience includes software sales, product management, professional services management and technology consulting. He has sold, developed, implemented and supported technology solutions in a variety of industries including financial services, distribution, manufacturing, government and health insurance. His prior employers include global corporations such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Unilever and Tata Motors, as well as several startups and emerging players in the software and technology services sectors. Satyen has a bachelor's degree in engineering with honors from IIT Chennai, in India.
Shyam Chittajallu Vice President of Technology
Shyam is responsible for implementing the product roadmap, architecture, R&D, and Quality Management. Prior to joining MoreMagic, Shyam was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Wireless Intelligent Network Applications Group at Lucent Technologies, where he was responsible for pre-sales support and systems engineering for several Tier 1 operators, including Sprint PCS, TNZ, and Singtel. He has over 20 years experience in the field of telecommunications software development. Shyam holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware.
Alex Tarlamis Vice President of Sales - Latin America
Alex Tarlamis is Vice President of Sales and is responsible for sales and market development for the Latin American region. Alex brings 20 years of international wireless and telecommunications experience to MoreMagic Solutions having spent most of his career with Nortel Networks. During his tenure in Nortel, Alex had extensive international experience including offshore assignments in Asia Pacific and Brazil in various positions of engineering, business development, and sales. Prior to joining MoreMagic Solutions, Alex had spent three years with bcgi starting their global business development and progressed into sales and channel partnerships for the Caribbean and Latin America. Alex holds a Bachelor of Engineering and also speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Dan Lambert Director of Sales
Dan Lambert is responsible for sales of MoreMagic Solutions transaction processing products to mobile operators, banks and financial institutions worldwide. Dan's initiatives include the worldwide distribution networks and operator agreements associated with international mobile prepaid recharge, as well as mobile payments solutions for the world's underserved populations. Dan has been in the mobile financial services industry for the better part of the last decade, most recently with Cyphermint, Inc., where he developed and managed the company's domestic and international sales initiatives through both direct and partnered campaigns. He implemented Cyphermint's mobile wallet sales and marketing plans regarding pricing, promotion, distribution and product offering. Dan has launched mobile payment platforms for remittances, bill payment, mshopping, integration to stored value cards, and merchant payments in the U.S, Latin America and Africa. He is a graduate of Syracuse University. |