Mohan Warrior joined Alfalight as president and CEO in February 2004. Prior to joining Alfalight, Mr. Warrior's career includes 15 years at Motorola Semiconductors (now Freescale) where he most recently led the test and assembly operations, a group of 3500 employees, in the US, Scotland and Korea. He previously held senior-level leadership positions at Motorola including managing operations for silicon wafer fabrication, and leading a global team of scientists and engineers to develop advanced packaging solutions.

Following Motorola, Mr. Warrior gained a successful track record as an entrepreneur launching two start-ups. Immediately prior to Alfalight, Mr. Warrior was the president and CEO of Nanocoolers, a thin film thermoelectric cooling company in Austin, Texas.

Mr. Warrior received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He was a founding charter member of the Austin chapter of TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals and is currently a charter member of TiE Midwest.

Jai Shekhawat has more than 18 years of experience with software development, information technology and management consulting. He is presently the CEO of Fieldglass, a leading provider of software solutions to help large firms manage their spend on a variety of business services such as contingent labor and outsourced projects.

Prior to starting Fieldglass, Mr. Shekhawat co-founded Quinnox, an IT and Business Process Outsourcing firm located in Naperville, Ill., with development and sales operations in the U.S., United Kingdom, Japan, India and South Africa. Previously, he was a Consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Chicago where he served clients in a variety of industries. He also spent several years as a senior executive in the Information Technology field. As head of operations at Syntel, a software services firm, he helped build that company from a 50-person firm to nearly 700 consultants in six years. In this capacity, he helped create an international sales and service delivery organization to provide application management services to the Global 2000.

Mr. Shekhawat holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's degree in management science from the BITS Pilani, India.

Sunil is the founding CEO of Great Software Laboratory, which builds products for next generation communication and collaboration infrastructure. GS Lab has partnerships with several leading edge start-ups that contribute to its innovative network security and data communication products. He also founded Sarvega in Chicago in June 2000 and raised over $20M from leading VCs for this business. Sarvega provided leading products that secure and scale ML-based Web services applications before getting acquired by Intel in August 2005.

Prior to Sarvega, Mr. Gaitonde founded Internet Junction which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1995. At Cisco, he led teams to build appliance products such the Cisco Cache Engine until June 2000. Internet Junction also made Internet connectivity easy to use for Novell users with PC. He holds several patents in the field of data communications and has written numerous papers in reputed journals.

Mr. Gaitonde holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a pHD in computer networking from Iowa State university.

Matthew McCall is a co-founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners and Portage Venture Partners. McCall is responsible for managing the firm¹s investments in EverDream, Feedburner, Imago Scientific, Lefthand Networks, Siimpel and TicketsNow.

McCall has served on the advisory board to the Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors in Chicago as well as on numerous other regional high technology advisory boards. McCall is a board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association. He serves on the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board, Northwestern McCormick MMM Advisory Board and ITEC-UIC (Illinois Technology Enterprise Corporation), a University of Illinois sponsored state funded incubator. He has been honored by Crain's Chicago Business on its annual "40 under 40" list of leading Chicagoans under age 40. He has also been named as one of top 100 most prominent members of Chicago's technology community. He has keynoted or been a panelist at over 50 area conferences and events nationwide. He is a founder & trustee of the McCall Family Foundation, focused on improving early childhood development in Chicago¹s disadvantaged communities as well as encouraging entrepreneurship in our youth.

Previous to 1995, McCall worked in the Boston Consulting Group¹s Chicago office, where he managed consulting and client teams on projects in the telecommunications, health-care and financial services industries. During and after college, McCall worked for Bankers Trust in Merchant Banking as well as at Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust.

McCall holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Williams College and an MBA with honors from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Masters in Manufacturing Management from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering.


MODERATOR

Ranjay Gulati is the Michael L. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also serves as the co-director of Kellogg’s Heizer Center for Entrepreneurship.

Professor Gulati is a widely recognized specialist on strategic and organizational issues in firms, including the creation and management of intra and inter-firm partnerships and achieving short term and long term growth by organic means, as well as through mergers, acquisitions, and alliances. He is the co-author of two books – “Techventure: New Rules for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley” (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), and “Kellogg on Innovation and Technology” (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). His next book, "Customer Centric Organizations" focuses on the transformation processes that enable firms to engage with their customers more effectively.

Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard Business School, a Master’s Degree in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively.