| Sanjeev Aggarwal |
| Managing Director, Helion Venture Partners |
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Sanjeev Aggarwal was the Founder and CEO of Daksh, having been with the company from its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev ran the company as its CEO till recently and under his leadership Daksh won the ‘Contact Center Outsourcing Vendor of the Year (2006)’ award in Asia Pacific by Frost & Sullivan. The company has over 20,000 employees and has presence in India, Philippines, Europe, Australia, and North America. Daksh delivers business process outsourcing services across seven industries and for several horizontal segments such as CRM and Finance & Accounting. Sanjeev was chosen “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year” in 2002.
Prior to founding Daksh, he worked for 15 years with leading technology companies serving the domestic Indian market. He worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in addressing automation needs of various sectors like steel, telecommunications and financial services. He also served as the CEO of 3COM India, and at Motorola identifying new businesses.
Sanjeev has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA. |
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| Daniel Reed |
| Chief Executive Officer, UnitedLex Corporation |
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Dan’s focus throughout his career has been on helping companies optimize the legal, financial and operational aspects of their business. Prior to founding UnitedLex, Dan served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel to Adjoined Consulting, and then as Managing Director of Kanbay International. Adjoined provided management consulting, integration and outsourcing IT services to a primarily Fortune 500 client base (Adjoined was aquired by Kanbay International, India’s 6th largest IT services provider, for $165 million in early '06). At Adjoined, Dan helped establish the company’s unique brand of financial and legal execution while managing various offshore (India, Singapore and Malaysia) service provider relationships.
Prior to his career with Adjoined Consulting, Dan was Vice President of Corporate Development and Legal Affairs at SmartDisk Corporation where he guided such company through early stage structuring and execution of its initial public offering, and was responsible for all offshore (Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines) shared services, corporate development activity and research and development activity from a legal perspective. Dan began his career 17 years ago with Ernst & Young LLP providing audit and tax advice services to New York City area companies. He then went on to Greenberg Traurig LLP (an AmLaw top 10 firm with more than 1,500 lawyers) where he represented venture backed and Fortune 500 companies in the technology, financial, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.
Dan has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Florida. |
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| Rahul Chandra |
| Director, Helion Venture Partners |
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Rahul has 10 years of venture capital investing experience in IT companies in India and the US. From November 2004 until March 2006, Rahul managed the mergers and acquisition efforts at e4e, a next generation BPO company with 4,000 employees.
Between 1996 and 2004, Rahul was a key member of the investment team at Walden International and worked in Palo Alto and Mumbai. He was involved in 17 early-to-mid-stage technology investments in both the United States and in India. Rahul was the first employee in Walden's India office and was a core member of the team that was responsible for the deployment of Walden's India dedicated Fund established in 1996. Prior to Walden, he was an Associate at Lazard India, and a Policy Formulator at the Securities Exchange Board of India.
Rahul has an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and an undergraduate degree in Business from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. |
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| Ajay Agrawal |
| Chief Solutions Officer, UnitedLex Corporation |
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Ajay is a senior corporate lawyer who specializes in equity-linked and structured transactions, M&A and complex securities and litigation. Over the last 14 years he has worked in some of the world’s leading firms and investment banks in their offices in New York, London and New Delhi and has been involved in M&A, litigation and securities offerings of structured Tier I capital, convertible and exchangeable securities, hybrid debt instruments, asset-backed securities and trust preferred securities. He has also represented corporate clients and investment banks in conventional securities offerings such as straight equity, cross-border debt, medium term notes and high-yield debt. Over the last decade, Ajay has also acquired significant technical and operational experience in the field of outsourced legal services and remote processing and has worked closely with several pioneers in the BPO industry.
Prior to founding UnitedLex, Ajay was part of the structured finance team at NM Rothschild & Sons (India) where his practice areas included asset-backed securitization. As a Senior Associate in the London and New Delhi offices of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Ajay structured the legal aspects of private equity investments made in India by major PE firms including EM Warburg Pincus and Chase Capital Partners and worked on some of the largest M&A transactions in the Indian market during 1999-2002. In his previous position as a Senior Associate at the New York offices of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Ajay’s transactional focus lay in the fields of securities and capital markets, including representation of private equity investment funds. As a member of the Securities and Private Equity Group at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Ajay structured several international private equity funds in Israel, Brazil and U.S.A. and worked on initial public offerings of companies belonging to various industry sectors in the U.S. capital markets, including the initial public offering of Ispat International, N.V. in August 1997. Ajay began his career as an Associate at the Corporate Group at the New York offices of Debevoise & Plimpton, where he worked on international private equity placements and securities offerings.
He has an LLM in international trade and finance from the Columbia University Law School, a BA (Honors) in Law from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and a BA (Honors) magna cum laude from Brown University. |
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Remote processing industry leader, Anup Bhasin, joins UnitedLex as Chief Operating Officer |
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Intellectual property attorney Ian Benouis joins UnitedLex as Vice President |
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Contracts management and outsourcing veteran, Stephen Sopko, joins UnitedLex as Vice President |
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Patent Attorney Joe Root joins UnitedLex as Chief Patent Counsel. |
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Litigation Attorney Ernie Higginbotham joins UnitedLex as General Counsel and VP of Litigation Support. |
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