SAI TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT TEAM

Dr. Venkat Rayapati, Founder, President & CEO of SAI Technology
Prior to SAI, Dr. Rayapati worked as Vice President of Design Engineering at Chartered Semiconductor, and served as Chief Technology Officer & Chief Operating Officer of Xalted Networks Inc. Rayapati also co-founded Portal Player Inc. (now part of nVidia) as their VP of Engineering & CTO. He has over twenty years of experience in telecom, semiconductor design, audio, H.264, video data compression and transmission. Before that he worked at Lucent Technologies as Director of Product Development, responsible for development of the broadband access products. He held several technical positions at Nortel Networks, National Semiconductor (Chief Architect) and AMD (Architecture Manager of K6). Dr. Rayapati was also on the Board of Directors at Digital Video Systems Inc. and has held various technical advisory board memberships at Zarlink Semiconductor and Cornice Corporation. Dr. Rayapati holds a Doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Montreal, Canada and also from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He has also taught several courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz in emerging Wireless technologies, optical technologies, VLSI design, RF IC design, LAN, WAN, IP & MPLS related advanced technologies. Dr. Rayapati has published approximately 35 papers in various reputable International Journals and Conferences.

Balaji Tamirisa, Executive Vice President Engineering
Balaji Tamirisa held senior management positions at Qulacomm, SKY MobileMedia, SorrentoTelecom, and PrairieComm. He held the position of Senior Director at Qualcomm. Before that, Tamirisa worked at SKY MobileMedia as their Vice President of Engineering. At SKY MobileMedia, Tamirisa lead an engineering that developed a Mobile Application Platform known as SKY-MAP for mid-tier handsets and developed advanced data applications and MMI. Tamirisa built and guided the engineering teams in Europe and Asia while he was at SKY MobileMedia. Prior to SKY MobileMedia, Tamirisa led teams that developed CDMA protocol stacks at Sorrento Telecom and PrairieComm for a period of 6 years. Prior to PrairieComm, Tamirisa was responsible for developing protocols and software for remote access products at 3Com. Prior to 3Com, Tamirisa led and developed protocol software for two-way radio, iDen and CDMA systems at Motorola. Tamirisa developed Medical Informatics Systems at Loyola University prior to Motorola. Tamirisa has more than 20 years of experience in developing software that range from wireless, medical, and internet systems. Tamirisa received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi University, India and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Robert K. Young, GM Worldwide Sales & President SAI Government Systems
Robert Young is currently serving as President of SAI Government Systems, where he leads the companies’ growth initiative in the Federal, State and Local Government markets. Prior to this position, Young served as the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Public Engines Inc. which provides advanced mapping technology and analytics tools to Federal, State and Local Governments, and also Law Enforcement offices across North America and Europe. Robert Young previously served as Executive Vice President of World Wide Sales and Marketing at HelloSoft Inc. HelloSoft is a global company located in Silicon Valley and is focused on the VoIP/IMS/WiFi business sector. Previously, Young was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the SAIC Global Telecommunications Group. Previous board assignments include Chairman of ANX Asia Pacific (SAIC/Mitsubishi Joint Venture), Board of Directors SAIC Ltd. Europe, Board of advisors for SBC Communications (now AT&T in San Antonio, Tx.), Wisor Telecom (Bethesda, Md.), Packet Video (San Diego, Ca.), Airespace, Clear Technologies (Denver, Co), and Touch Technologies Inc. (San Diego, Ca) and MobilSynch Inc. (Denver, Colorado). Previous Advisory board positions in include for iPass (Redwood Shores, Ca.), S5 Wireless (Draper, Utah), Atreus Systems (Ottowa, Ca.), HelloSoft Incorporated (San Jose, Ca.),

Gadiraju Gadadhar, Vice President India Business Development & Operations
Gadiraju Gadadhar brings in over 15 years of experience as a management executive, product manager, business development focused on the IT and telecom industries. He has expertise in Business development & analysis, building partnerships, solutions architecting, Software & Hardware product management, and has proven abilities in building and managing software development centers. Gadadhar led teams and provided management leadership in developing and managing the full life cycle (from concept to delivery) of software products like CTI/IVR system, fax servers, bill collection systems, subscriber management & billing systems and also hardware products like PC add-on cards, HDSL Modems, wireless RF tag system and Vehicle Tracking Devices.

Prior to joining SAI, Gadadhar headed the Business Development & Project management activities of Aster Teleservices’s Product Development Division. He led teams to ensure project deliveries, customer interactions, and successful management of business operations and shouldered the responsibility of directing and mentoring activities within the organization. He contributed significantly in building the business of the organization in Indian Railways, Defence & Telecom sectors. Gadadhar has also co-founded successful startups in the earlier part of his career after completing his MBA in India.

Vijayasri Rayapati, Vice President HR & Operations
Vijiyasri had over 13 years of Human Resources management, technical recruitment, and organization development experience. She has worked with several companies IBM, Mindfinders, Vertical Net and other companies on a full time and part time basis. Vijiyasri has also run her own recruitment firm supporting clients like Lucent Technologies, AMD, Portal Player and several start-up companies in the Silicon Valley area. Vijyayasri obtained a B.S Degree in Fine Arts, and also a Post Graduate Diploma specialized in Human Resources Management from the University of Santa Cruz.