

Jay
Chaudhry - Co-founder, Chairman of the Board
Jay
brings 19 years of sales, marketing and engineering experience and has
founded several companies, most recently eLaunchpad as Chairman and CoreHarbor,
as Chairman and CEO. Jay is also chairman and co-founder of Air2Web, which
enables businesses to extend their Internet services to hand-held wireless
devices such as cell phones. Jay is also the founding president of the
Atlanta chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur).
Jay
also founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SecureIT
- an Internet security services company. SecureIT was later sold to VeriSign
- a public company and leading provider of Internet trust services - for
$70 million in VeriSign stock. Prior to that, Jay served in VP and Marketing
Management roles with VeriSign, Unisys, IQ Software, NCR and IBM.
Jay
holds a Masters in Computer Engineering, Masters in Industrial Engineering,
and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
He has attended executive management programs at Harvard Business School,
Wharton Business School and IBM.
Palaniswamy
"Raj" Rajan - Co-founder, President & CEO
Palaniswamy
Rajan, known to everyone as "Raj", is Co-founder, president
and CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Raj is involved every day with eLaunchpad
Portfolio Companies.
Raj
is co-founder of VerticalOne, a content personalization service, sold
to S1, an Internet financial services company, for $166 million in S1
stock. He founded and served as Chairman of ResourcIS, a firm providing
IT personnel to technology start-ups, and Emerald Systems, a technology
consulting firm specializing in object oriented programming. Raj is the
co-founder of the Atlanta High Tech CEO Council and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs),
a national organization mentoring to entrepreneurs. Raj is also a member
of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce "Industries of the Mind"
Steering Committee. Raj is the co-founder of the Atlanta CEO High Tech
Council and TiE, The IndUS Entrepreneurs, a national organization mentoring
to entrepreneurs. Raj holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in
Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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