Narendra is the Founder & Chairman of Kale Consultants Ltd which was formed in 1982-  it is a public Company of 2000+ employees. Today Kale Consultants is recognized as the world leader for airlines revenue accounting solutions. Before joining Kale Consultants, Narendra was President and CEO at Silver line Technologies where he oversaw it's growth to a small outfit to a $100 Million company in a period of 7 years. Narendra

Mangesh is the Chairman and Founder CEO of Impact Systems, Inc. which is involved in making Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, such as EMC-Documentum related with database management. After B.E. Instrumentation and Control from Pune, Mangesh completed M.S. in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Before launching Impact systems, Mangesh worked in DuPont in various senior management positions.

Susheel Jadhav graduated from COEP in 1998(Metallurgy). He got his Master’s degree in Materials Science from Michigan State University in 2001. Susheel is currently working in Intel, Arizona as a Sr. Process Engineer in the area of Microelectronic Packaging He has authored/ co-authored 5 technical publications so far and authored/coauthored 7 patents pending in the area of process/materials of solder interconnects

and thermal interface materials. Susheel was awarded with the Outstanding Mentor award in 2005 by the Semiconductor Research Corporation for his role in the industry-academia collaboration demonstrated during the 'Impression-Creep Metrology' transfer from a Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey to Intel, Arizona.

Sandeep Johri is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for HP Software. Sandeep is responsible for the overall strategy, M&A, and acquisition integration and has been an instrumental part of the team that developed the strategy which has resulted in the OpenView business growing 2X of market over the last 3 years. During his tenure at HP, he has led the acquisition and successful integration of 9

software companies valued at ~$5B including one of the largest software acquisitions done by HP of Mercury Interactive. Prior to HP, Johri was an Executive-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, a leading venture fund in Silicon Valley. Prior to that Johri was the CEO and Founder of Oblix (acquired by Oracle in 2005), a leading provider of enterprise Identity Management solutions. In 1999, Johri co-founded eBoodle (acquired by EW Scripps) one of the first e-commerce comparison shopping services. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics and Gemini Consulting.
He has an MBA from Stanford University, a M. S. in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India. Johri currently serves on the boards of BlueLane (Security startup), Livedeal (online local classifieds website) and Persistent Systems (outsourced software development company based in India) and as an advisor to several other startups.

Anjali Dadhe graduated from COEP in 1977 (Metallurgy). She worked at ‘Mahindra Sintered Product’ as an R & D engineer, and later joined the Metallurgy department of COEP as an assistant lecturer. In 1979 she began her graduate studies at the University of Virginia (Materials Science and Engineering Department) where she received her M.S. degree. After taking a break for a few years in Sweden and USA , she went back to school at the North Carolina State

University . She finished her doctorate in Materials Science & Engineering in 1989. After conducting various research projects at IBM East Fishkill , NY for three years, Anjali founded ‘CASA Engineering’. In 1992 she developed and launched ‘atomistic defect simulation software’ that analyses and processes microscopic defects in materials. In 1997, she published the first ever ‘multi-media’ book for clinical electromyography. These books (available on DVD) are used by physicians for training and education. Her products have reached more than 40 countries. Anjali has several publications in the field of controlling microscopic defects in materials. She lives in Hopewell Junction , New York , USA with her husband (Sanjeev Nandedkar), two sons (Desh and Vishesh ) and her dog (black lab called Data). Besides developing new products, she enjoys teaching Indian classical music, creating perennial gardens, painting, walking with the dog and reading.

Sameer graduated from COEP in 1999 with a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering. He went on to get a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University. Sameer currently works for Marvell Semiconductors Inc, as a Senior Engineer in the Storage Division. Sameer has been the Founder member of the California Chapter of the COEP Foundation since it's inception in 2004. He was the Chapter Vice President from 2003 to 2006

and is actively involved in all chapter projects and activities such as WebGuru, WebSetu. He was a key member of the team involved in organizing the annual Alumni get together activities in California for the past 3 years and the Entrepreneurship Development seminar for COEPians.