Board of Directors
Dr. Anurag Mendhekar, Founder, Chairman of the Board
In addition to his duties as Chairman and founder of PixSense, Anurag is also the founder and President of Blue Vector Systems, a RFID management platform provider. He co-founded Online Anywhere which created the market category of content transformation tools for Mobile and non-PC devices. It was acquired by Yahoo! for $80M in 1998. Later, Anurag served as a key executive of Yahoo! Everywhere, and developed a global business around Yahoo!´s Mobile Internet services, achieving distribution through 40 wireless carriers. Anurag started his career at Xerox´s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was one of the inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming. Anurag has published several scientific papers, and holds six patents. Anurag holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University, a MS in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, and a BE in Computer Engineering from Bombay University.
Mike Hodges
Currently a Managing Director at ATA Ventures, Mike Hodges has developed a career as an industry recognized startup CEO, leading a variety of venture-backed companies through all stages of growth. Mike has filled CEO or iCEO roles at a variety of venture-backed technology start-ups, including Cygnet Systems, Biometric Imaging, SkyStream, NanoGram, Bandwidth9, Onetta, Silvan Networks, Tellium and MEMX. Mike graduated from U.C. Berkeley, receiving BSEE and MSEE degrees.
Frédéric Veyssière
Based in San Francisco, California, Frédéric joined Innovacom in 2000. Frederic is a board member with Actelis Networks, Atrica (acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks), Mobile Complete, PixSense, Radioframe Networks and Vantrix, and an observer with Bitfone (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Bytemobile and Meeting One.
Prior to joining Innovacom in 2000, Frédéric worked with TeleSoft Partners, a San Mateo–based venture capital fund, as a consultant in charge of business development for Europe. From 1992 to 1999, Frédéric was director, then vice president of Business Development & Operations with France Telecom North America in New York, heading several key projects including the implementation of the company’s Internet backbone in the US, the investment of France Telecom in Sprint PCS, and the business planning and implementation in the U.S. of the first gateway allowing seamless roaming between GSM-900 and DCS-1900 networks. Prior to joining France Telecom in 1992, Frédéric was an associate in the M&A Group of La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild in Paris focusing on telecom and IT transactions.
Frédéric holds an MS in physics from Paris Science University, Magna Cum Laude; an MS in telecommunications engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris; and an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business.
Faraz Hoodbhoy, Founder, CEO
Faraz most recently served as Vice President of Business Development at NextBrick Solutions, Ltd., and was responsible for its Enterprise Search practice. Prior to that as Director Technical Sales at Clickmarks, Inc., Faraz developed key relationships around Clickmarks´ mobile integration platform with carriers in North and South America. As Director Global Solutions at Unisys Corporation, he created and implemented technology strategy for Unisys´ mobile and wireless field-force solutions offerings. At Cap-Gemini Ernst and Young, Faraz was part of the Center for Business Innovation where his research focus was on corporate performance measurement. Faraz started his career at Microsoft on the team responsible for building the XML 1.0 standard. He is co-author of the book, "Applied XML - A Toolkit for Programmers" and holds a BS in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer.
PixSense is also honored to have a highly experienced board of advisors.