Lunch with Arvind (Google India) and Vas (Private Investor) - Palo Alto

Spend Saturday afternoon with your IITD friends, enjoy an excellent lunch at an upscale Indian Fusion, highly acclaimed, new restaurant, Mantra, in Palo Alto. Network, converse, relax... as the decor is quite appealing... including the acclaimed "Daaru Lounge".

We're pleased to note that some of the leading lights of IIT will be present. If you'd like to chat with them in this informal setting, this is the chance!

Arvind Jain, Google Center Head (India) R&D
Arvind Jain is currently the head of R&D at Google India in Bangalore and a member of Google's systems laboratory. Before joining Google, he was the founding engineer at Riverbed Technology (RVBD), one of the leading companies in the WAN optimization industry, and helped build its caching/compression based appliances to speed up WAN interactions from remote offices in an enterprise. Prior to Riverbed, he was the architect of the streaming and storage division at Akamai Technologies where he helped build Akamai's distributed video on demand and live broadcasting service. He started his career at Microsoft Corporation and did his B.Tech in computer science from IIT-Delhi in 96.

Vasudev Bhandarkar, Private Investor
Vas Bhandarkar, Successful Private Investor and Serial Entrepreneur - Vas Bhandarkar is a successful private investor and serial entrepreneur who focuses on business-to-consumer and mobile value-added-services companies. Among his other accomplishments Vas has bootstrapped-to-customer-acquisition Alma Enterprises a B2B services company, the now public Selectica a B2B2C company, and Unimobile a wireless value-added-services B2C company, currently a division of Verisign. He has successfully implemented B2B, B2B2C and B2C business models in executive roles, in marketing, business and channel development, online, offline and wirelessly. He was the founding VP of Marketing and Business Development at Selectica, the Chairman and CEO of Unimobile, and currently works as a private investor investing in early-to-mid-stage companies in the US-India corridor. His most recent investment is carwale.com which is a classified ad and research automobile site for consumers in India. Vas currently serves on the Board of Induslogic. Vas is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and Colorado State University. His online bio is at http://vbhandarkar.blogspot.com.

Limited Seating for 30 people - PLEASE RSVP by sending email to param_dev@hotmail.com

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