Management Team
Jayanthi Rangarajan,
President & Chief Executive Officer
Rangarajan’s experience at Motorola Corp. and Andersen Consulting encompasses customer relations, marketing, product positioning, business development and global commercial product deployment. At Motorola she worked in its Internet and Networking Group, where she helped spearhead technology strategy and development for products ranging from wireless and the Internet to mobile devices, paging networks and cellular phones.
Bruce Simpson,
Chief Operating Officer
With a successful track record at various technology companies, Simpson brings over 20 years of leadership and business experience to Novarra. He headed a pre-IPO managed service provider company, AppGenesys, as CEO. Simpson also was President at Lucent NetCare Managed Services and Octel Network Services.
Charles T. Medhurst,
Chief Financial Officer
Medhurst brings extensive skills in capital growth to Novarra. Most recently, he directed the planning, analysis and corporate reporting for Cimlinc Inc., a venture-financed software developer.
Ian McWilliams,
Managing Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa
With 30 years in the telecoms business of which the last 15 years have been spent in the mobile space, McWilliams has held regional vice president or director roles for sales organizations in companies such as Octel, Lucent, CapGemini and Motorola. As managing director for Cibernet Plc, his responsibilities included general management of their city-based London financial clearing operation.
Board Of Directors
Mark Achler
Kettle Partners, Founding Principal
Mr. Achler focuses on investing in and advising wireless infrastructure, software and marketing-driven companies. He has founded, built and sold numerous successful organizations that were among the first to capitalize on a wide array of market defining trends including: Kinesoft Development, Imagination Pilots, Inc., The Whitewater Group, and Computers, Etc. Mr. Achler is also currently the President of Rightfield Solutions.
David Kronfeld
JK&B Capital, Chairman
.Mr. Kronfeld founded JK&B in 1996. Prior to forming JK&B, Mr. Kronfeld was a General Partner at Boston Capital Ventures ("BCV") where he focused on making venture capital investments in companies in the telecommunications and software industries. Before joining BCV, Mr. Kronfeld was with Ameritech where he was the Vice President of Acquisitions and Venture Investments responsible for directing Ameritech's venture capital investments in a broad array of telecommunications-related companies and all of Ameritech's mergers and acquisitions activities. In addition, Mr. Kronfeld was a Senior Manager at Booz Allen & Hamilton and a Systems Analyst at Electronic Data Systems (E.D.S.).
Tasha Seitz
JK&B Capital, Partner
Ms. Seitz joined JK&B Capital in 1997 and has focused on the software sector, working with companies such as Interwoven, Andromedia and Synchrologic. Prior to joining JK&B, Ms. Seitz was an information technology industry analyst at Gartner Group advising Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients in their implementation of technology over a five-year strategic planning horizon. She worked in the areas of Local Area Communications and Applications Development & Management before founding Gartner's Multimedia service in 1993. While at Gartner, Ms. Seitz advised on electronic publishing and led efforts to deliver research to Gartner's clients in multimedia.
Chuck Parrish
Mr. Parrish is a private investor and advisor to technology companies. Previously, Chuck was a co-founder and executive vice-president of Phone.com, a leader in the delivery of Internet-based services to wireless phones. The company merged with Software.com to form Openwave Systems Inc., the worldwide leader of Internet-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Parrish was a senior vice president and member of Openwave's executive team. Prior to Phone.com, Parrish was vice president of marketing and general manager of Mobile Data for GTE Mobile Communications. He also worked as senior vice president of operations at Contel Cellular, Inc. and was co-founder, president, and CEO of AmeriCom Corporation. Formerly, Parrish served as chief of staff in the Department of Interior under the Carter Administration.
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