TeamInOpen is a Educational startup incubated at IIT Bombay. It has a dynamic team with a passion for Quality technical education . Inopen’s foundation of openness, transparency and collaboration are not only at the core of company’s open culture, but this has helped us get good connect with people and organizations. Since its inception, InOpen has been actively backed by academia and industry allied. We strong believe in the theory of collaborative development. We are guided by very senior mentors at every step which has helped us shape our company. Our main Focus lies on developing our intellectual capabilities to generate World Class Content both at school & university level. Mr. Rupesh Shah (Co-Founder & CEO ) : A Computer Science Engineer. Rupesh's passion lies in leveraging Open Source based content and technology for Education. His background helps him to lead InOpen’s efforts towards creating educational solutions that focus on creating content which can be universally accepted and deployed across varied infrastructure. Rupesh brings with him analytical, statistical skills and expertise in project management. His skills include Idea Evolution, Business Negotiation and Team Building along with his deep Knowledge of Open Source. Rupesh is essentially a hands-on player, with focus on converting ideas-to-reality. Rupesh did his Computer Science Engineering from Rajasthan University. He is also currently pursuing his Exec. MBA from IIM Calcuta in Business Analytics. Rupesh did his research work in IIT Bombay where he along with his team developed a Linux based Operating System called 'Intux'. Prior to InOpen Rupesh was involved in Training Open Source which involved 6000 college students and organisation like Indian Air Force. Hobbies include fiddling with his piano and gadgets. He is available on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Read his blog. Dr. Sridhar Iyer (Co-Founder & Director) : Dr. Sridhar Iyer is presently a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg. at IIT Bombay. Prior to this, he has been a faculty member in the Dept of Computer Science & Engg at IIT Guwahati.His research interests include: eLearning technologies, networking protocols and multimedia tools for distance education, wireless networking and applications, and some areas in program/protocol verification. Sridhar Iyer received his BTech, MTech and PhD from the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg at IIT Bombay. Prof. Sridhar Iyer is a consultant to MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource and Development), MTNL(Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd), NSDL(National Securities Depository Ltd), LIC(Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd), RIL(Reliance Industries Ltd), SHCIL(Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd), UIIC(United India Insurance Corporation Ltd), PSPL(Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd). Dr. Sridhar is also the founder of InOpen technology and currently serving as a Non-Executive Director for InOpen. Dr. Shridhar Shukla (Director) : Founder and Managing Director, GS Lab. For eight years before GS Lab, Shridhar was a Director at Persistent Systems, leading the Company’s growth to US$10+M with 500+ employees in 2003 from revenue base of US$200K with 20 employees in 1995. During his stint at Persistent, he helped set the strategic direction, acquired and grew key customer relationships. Shridhar served as a faculty member at the US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA where he successfully led several distributed computing research projects funded by the NSF, US Navy, and Unisys. Shridhar has advised more than 20 Masters and PhD students and has published extensively in the area of parallel processing, distributed computing, multicast protocols, routing, and directory services. Shridhar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (1990), an M. S. from Virginia Tech in VLSI (1985) and a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (1983). Vetntureast (Investor) : VenturEast is a ‘venture style’ investment firm with offices in Chennai and Hyderabad. VenturEast TeNeT Fund II is primarily focused on early/ seed stage investments. VenturEast as a firm has enabled over 50 businesses in India and overseas in the areas of technology, healthcare & life sciences, cleantech, besides other emerging sectors. |
