Althea Systems is focused on building solutions that simplify online video discovery and consumption across multiple screens by stitching together latest technology, the brave new social web and good old common sense.
About Althea
Team
Vinod Gopinath
Founder - CEO
Vinod is a gizmo freak. If it has a screen and plays video, he probably owns it. He is passionate about his music and believes his playlists have been copied into more iPods than U2 songs have been torrented on the internet.
He insists his engineering and management background will help him build a wireless, multimedia gizmo that will usher in world peace and solve the world’s hunger problems.
At Althea Vinod drives product definition, technology marketing, company strategy and his colleagues as its CEO.
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Vijaya Sagar
Founder - Engineering
Sagar wonders why Dijkstra, Kernighan, Ritchie, Chomsky, Kafka, Wodehouse et.al., are not yet following him on Twitter. Someone in his close circles calls him a megalomaniac (rather unfairly).
He knows that one day he will make his billions, go off on a solo climb to his high-altitude Himalayan cave, sit there and craft a 42-complication tourbillon by hand, while listening to Indian classical music and smooth Jazz (at the same time). But, when will he complete writing that master key to Hopcroft & Ullman's thriller?
At Althea, Sagar runs engineering on the principle that only with exquisite attention to both form and function, can a great product be built.
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Kishore
Founder - Technology
Kishore is a passionate geek who lives and thrives on social media. He single-handedly makes up for the Gen-Y deficiency in team Althea :^). He likes taking risks and has an abhorrence for the status quo.
He is determined to ride his bike on every road in India, build companies that dwarf GOOG, AAPL, CSCO, MSFT and give his best shot at attaining nirvana in this life. Having been a bully most of his life, he is showing signs of mellowing down after Milo started getting the better of him.
He spearheads technology and innovation at Althea, and is very opinionated on programming and development methodologies.
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Rajnish
Founder - Business
Rajnish is a fan of Jerry Maguire's "show me the money". In his 16 year career, Rajnish has been associated with companies that are #1 in their respective fields of operation - Microsoft, ESPN, Times of India and AMUL. This association has rubbed off on him and he is now obesessed with building the world's #1 online video company.
In his free time Rajnish is trying to complete a magnum opus titled "rain, fire, earth and wind" which he thinks will win him a Booker prize at-least. He runs at Ulsoor Lake every weekend and is falling in love with Yoga (he is already a Zen Master).
At Althea Systems, Rajnish drives consumer marketing, monetization, business strategy and biz dev.
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Lakshmi
Developer - Data Tomb Raider
Armed with gypsy feet, clumsy hands and an overactive imagination, Lakshmi is forever plotting alternative careers only to discover she hasn't gotten over her love for programming.
She can pass for well read - quoting from Marquez, Douglas Adams and Meg Cabot with equal ease, and will choke if she doesn't talk tweet. She's been an alpha user of all things Web 2.0 but has recently discovered that getting behind those products is even more exciting.
At Althea, she is having fun building the world's best online video app mostly so that she can use it.
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Amrit Pal Singh
Developer/Hacker - Anything
Amrit is a man of few words. He is a video game junkie who dreams to be a Billionaire one day.
He plans to start a restaurant in Bangalore just to show the city what authentic North Indian Food really means. He is a fitness enthusiast and loves doing his Yoga. Amrit's long standing desires include flying a Sukhoi and sky diving.
As employee number 007 at Althea, he is on a mission to build the World's Coolest Online Video App. He loves working on RIAs and feels it's the most exciting work he has done till now.
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Sarala V
Bug Detective
Sarala (sanskrit for simple) tries to stay true to her name. She claims she was an athlete and loves to play outdoor games such as Sudoku! When indoors, she plays the harmonium.
Sarala dreams of backpacking to Africa and enjoying its natural beauty from atop a tree house. For now, she spends her free time gardening.
At Althea, her first workplace, she seems to be having more fun than in her college. Sniffing out bugs in the world's coolest app is giving her the thrills (if she hasn't put them in herself).
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Advisors
Arun Johary
Arun is a Consumer Electronics industry veteran & an entrepreneur. Previously, Arun was the co-founder of Armedia Labs (acquired by Broadcom), CTO of Sage Inc/Genesis Microchip (IPO, acquired by Genesis) and Co-Founder of Truespan (acquired by SiRF). His current venture Triazz builds technology for connected digtal photo frames.
Rajesh Sawhney
Rajesh is a new media, entertainment, telecom and IT industry veteran with over 20 years of experience with world-leading brands. Rajesh is the President of Reliance Entertainment, leading the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Previously, Rajesh was the founder and COO at Times Internet, where he grew the business from scratch. Rajesh is an angel investor in many start-ups and is an active member of the Mumbai Angels.
Ramesh Haridas
Ramesh is an Internet entrepreneur and an investor in early stage internet startups. Currently, he is a Partner at HT Ventures. Ramesh was the Founder and CEO of PrivacyBank.com (acquired by Infospace) and Founder and CEO of Chintano (acquired by Datran media). Ramesh has invested in Blip.tv, iMedix, Mashery, Lookery, CPM Advisors, Cooler Planet, Esaya, Zedo, Webchutney (sold stake to TV18), Grisoft(sold stake to Enterprise Investors), Refinery29, 8tracks, Quorus, TasteKid, Cooler Planet, Founder's Co-op, Mobitrans.net and GreenPatch (acquired by Playdom).c
Sunil Krishnan
Sunil is the President of Confident Group, a fast growing conglomerate with business interests across diversified verticals. Prior to Confident, he was Director (Finance), South East Asia for Hewlett Packard. In 16 years of his career at HP, he has held various positions in manufacturing, supply chain services, operations and finance gaining insight into various facets of corporate management. Sunil is also the CEO of Stratos Management which is an incubator for startups. Sunil has investments in Elina Networks, Blueshift and open2save.