Debi Prasad Sahoo — Founder, CTO & CEO

Debi founded NetworkFinancials Inc. with vision of empowering people and businesses to make better decision which leads to better ROI. He is an engineer at heart and an entrepreneur by passion. He is the primary author of “High Performance Communication Mechanism at High Scale” which is patent pending. and currently holds number of of U.S. technology patents with a couple pending.

Prior to founding NetworkFinancials he held the position of Senior Staff Engineer at Juniper Networks and lead the development of L2 technologies for its flagship MX product line. He was instrumental in introducing the VxLAN feature for the MX platform and took the initiative to help  AT&T improve performance and scale their platform. Before Juniper he worked as a Technical Lead at Aricent (formerly FutureSoft — acquired by Flextronics).

Apart from design and development his interest lies in competitive analysis and strategic decision making. He has received a M.Tech degree in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and B.E degree in Electrical Engineering from UCE Burla. He has a certificate of completion in Machine Learning (Stanford) and certificate of specialization in Business Foundations (Wharton).

During leisure he does not miss a chance to have a tennis session with his daughter.

Debi is also a seasoned investor including successful investments in Atheros (acquired by Qualcomm), Acme packet (acquired by Oracle), Netezza (acquired by IBM), Solutia (acquired by Eastman Chemicals), and Cytec (acquired by Solvay).

Anshul Prakash Deshkar, Data Scientist

As data scientist, Anshul works closely with the founder to add new differential data oriented features to NetworkFinancials’ high-performance platform. He is respected as an expert in software engineering and as a forward-thinking, career-focused professional.

Anshul recently worked as a Software Engineer for Cirrus Logic and earned Masters in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and BE degree in Computer Engineering from VES Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.

He is interested in programming, software development and data science as well as playing tennis and watching movies.

Jennifer Grancio

Jennifer Grancio was previously Managing Director, Head of Global Business Development and CMO, iShares at BlackRock. She has earned MBA in Finance & Strategy from Columbia University and BA with Honors in Economics from Stanford University.

She was on the Founder Team of iShares ETFs and led strategy, marketing and partnerships for global growth and success. She is well known for leading complex execution across teams, functions and regions. Her strength in building, backing high-performing teams and expertise around high quality long-term value investment vehicles make her a unanimous choice to serve us as a strategic and expert advisor.

On Social front, she has served on Girl Scouts USA’s National Board and currently works with multiple organizations to advance the mission of developing diverse leaders. For leisure, Jennifer is an avid hiker and particularly loves high alpine views and sharing the outdoors with her family.

A true ambassador of TROVA and our founder’s vision for making investment more efficient with great social impact.

Mallik Mahalingam

Mr. Mallik Mahalingam is currently working as a fellow at Intuit. Prior to Intuit, he founded SpringPath that got acquired by Cisco Systems and worked as a Principal Engineer at VMware.

He is a profound technologist and a successful entrepreneur well known for his exceptional contribution to Networking and Storage Industry and in bringing new dimension in achieving efficiency that misses many a million minds. Mallik holds more than 75 patents and authored several published papers in leading Journals, Standard Draft leading to revolutionary products empowering Modern Data Centers.

He is passionate about providing educational opportunities to the children of underserved communities. During leisure he enjoys playing Badminton.

A great proponent of Data-driven Solution for High-Quality Investment Strategies, Social and Ethical values makes him a great addition to serve our advisory board bringing allrounder's perspective.

Christine S. Loredo

As an advisor, Christine brings immense industry experience from companies like Yodlee, Yahoo and AOL to NetworkFinancials and TROVA community, Inspirational Investment eco-system. She has been instrumental in building FinTech eco-system for wide adoption of data products while at Yodlee.

She has earned MBA in Finance and International Marketing from University of Colorado, Denver and BS in Business Administration, International Business and Marketing from University of Colorado, Boulder.

Among the free time activities that she enjoys the most is skiing.

Dr Kishori Mohan Konwar

Dr Kishori Mohan Konwar is a researcher at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT where he works on distributed computing algorithms, information theory and network communication. He has designed and programmed several software tools to process large volume genomic data.

He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed papers and has also reviewed submissions in more than 25 international journals on computer science, bioinformatics and computational biology. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

His professional career includes doing quantitative risk management at KPMG LLP, New York City and working at Goldman Sachs, New York in quantitative risk modeling where he used high-performance computing techniques to assess enterprise wide market risk.

Dr. Kishori has earned MS in Statistics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut in distributed computing & designing algorithms for large-scale systems. He also holds Master of Technology (MTech) in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute and a Masters in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He is passionate about technology, but also enjoys swimming, cross country driving and camping.

Sri Sai Goli

Sri Goli is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, a World Leader in building Data Communication systems. His area of expert work spans building service provider and data center routing and switching systems.

Prior to Cisco Systems, Sri was a Principal Engineer at Insiemi which got acquired by Cisco Systems. He was a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks contributing to work that helped Juniper in various customer deployment in US and EMEA. He started his career at Ascend/Lucent Technologies.

Sri has earned MS in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He completed BS in Electronics and Communication from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). He holds quite good number of US patents.

His leisure time interests list includes running, travel, exploring consumer focussed tech-enabled products and retail industry.

Ketan Deshpande

Ketan has 20+ years of experience in software engineering. startups to fortune 500 in silicon valley. Focus on storage and data in enterprise. Most recently in Hyper Converged Infrastructure.

He is passionate about food and travel.

Hemanta Swain

Hemanta is currently working as VP & Chief Information Security Officer of TiVo, headquartered in San Jose, California; a global leader in entertainment technology and audience insights, and creator of Digital Video Recorder. He is leading a global team of security professionals to manage Cybersecurity, Regulatory Compliance, Privacy & Risk Management initiatives across the company -both product and corporate security including cloud services.

Pranabesh Dash

Pranabesh brings complementary competencies to the board of NetworkFinancials. Pranabesh founded two startups Xplorazzi and Xenia and previously worked as R&D Engineer and Manager at Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics, IKOS Systems and Delsoft.

He has earned his MS and B.Tech degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from University of Mass, Amherst and IIT Kharagpur respectively. In addition, he has completed M.S in Engineering and Technology Management from Portland State University.

His interests include disruptive technologies, travel, sports and adventures.