Srini Dhara
Startup Expo Chair
+1 (214) 924-7929
ITServe is the most ambitious Organization with a membership of 1200+ CXOs. Every member is an entrepreneur, a decision-maker, and a hardcore investor. ITServe is home to many startups, innovations and its members. They are passionate about conceiving new ideas and leveraging disruptive technologies to create the most value to customers. We planned an exclusive Startup Expo | Investor Day as part of our Startup Initiative and Expo.
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ITServe is the most ambitious organization with a membership of 1200+ CXOs. Every member is an Entrepreneur, a decision maker and a hardcore investor. ITServe is home for many startups, innovations and its members are passionate about conceiving new ideas and leveraging disruptive technologies to create the most value to customers. We planned an exclusive Startup Expo | Investor Day as part of our Startup Initiative and Expo.
This year, we have planned an exclusive Startup Expo | Investor Day as part of our Startup Initiative and Expo.
Co-Founder & MDDallas Venture Capital
Dayakar Puskoor, Founder and Managing Director of Dallas Venture Capital (DVC), is a serial entrepreneur turned visionary investor, who had the foresight to launch one of the first tech-focused venture funds. Headquartered in post-telecom Dallas, the fund invested in several pioneering early-stage startups in the cloud, AI/ML, and mobile technologies in Dallas, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and India.
Passionate about mentoring founding teams of startups, Dayakar operates with a philosophy to Invest, Engage, Collaborate, Grow & Exit. The spirit of this philosophy has resulted in several path-breaking transformations and winning exits for startups. His mantra of “Entrepreneur investing in other Entrepreneurs”, has led to the creation of a like-minded ecosystem of Investors, Advisors, and Startups for mutual success.
Besides playing a key role in Dallas Venture Capital, Dayakar is also Executive Chairman at Motivity Labs, GlobalOutlook and KeepTrax, Board Member at CoreStack, FelixHealthCare, Kore.ai, Altia Systems, SnapOne, and Viviota, Board Observer at Minetta Brook, and an Advisory Board Member at Boxfish and Glympse.
Dayakar began his career with Motorola where he owned the P&L for the Paging product and received the Engineering Excellence Award from management at Nippon Motorola. Following this, as Founder and CEO of JP Mobile, he pioneered the industry’s first mobile software solutions company considered to be the inventor of wireless email for the Palm PDA platform. He secured $55 million in financing and successfully completed its acquisition by Good Technology, later acquired by Motorola. Prior to founding Dallas Venture Capital, Dayakar owned the P&L for the Hosting & Mobility Solutions business at Microsoft. He was responsible for the incubation, development & management of new mobility and cloud solutions. He also led the $350M hosting business encompassing all product development, product management, marketing, and business development.
Dayakar is an active supporter of entrepreneurs and startups. He has been involved with the Dallas chapter of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) since 1999 and is currently a charter member. Among other activities, he chaired the wireless/mobility SIG of TiE, and organized a wireless seminar in partnership with Nokia, Texas Instruments, and others. Dayakar has also been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, where he is a thought leader and occasional contributor. Dayakar earned a master’s degree in computer science from Nova Southeastern University.
Head of Solutions Architecture AWS SMB East
Franck Noel, Head of Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services for SMB East. He previously led a team of builders in Socal focused on the Mid-Enterprise space and has been at AWS for just over 2.5 years
Franck currently resides in Philadelphia and is passionate about technology and its effect on companies and society. He has worked with customers of various sizes and industries helping them solve several transformational challenges through the use of AWS cloud technologies like Resmed, NextGen, Chewy, Axway, and others in Southern California. Prior to joining AWS, Franck spent several years working on other sales and pre-sales roles with a variety of customers at Cisco Systems. helping customers like Comcast and Vonage transform the Telecom industry. Franck has several certifications from the information technology industry including several AWS certifications. Franck is an Electrical Engineer graduate from SUNY at Stony Brook, NY.
CTO ACS Solutions
Sreedhar is currently the CTO of ACS Solutions, a global IT services/solutions company
Sreedhar is an industry thought leader with many publications in industry journals such as InformationWeek, ComputerWorld, and CIO, on emerging technologies to his credit. The links to his papers are listed on his LinkedIn profile.
Sreedhar just published a book “Frispect”, which is about leadership and teamwork with IT Consulting as the backdrop. It is available on Amazon.com and iTunes etc.
CEO Primus Global
Anil is the CEO of PRIMUS Global Services, an IT Staffing and Solutions provider with operations in US, India, Germany, UK & Mexico. Anil was the founder and CEO of RailcarRx before it was acquired in Oct, 2020. Along with his involvement at PRIMUS, Anil currently is the VP of Product Strategy at Kaleris, a global accelerator of Supply Chain Execution. For over 20 years, Anil has held leadership positions at several of the leading Healthcare, Rail and Technology focused enterprises. Originally from India, he now lives in Dallas/Fort Worth area with his wife and two children.
Senior VP Unisys
Chandra Gundlapalli is celebrated for dedication to the business transformation leadership with Marquis Who's Who in America top executive & National Diversity Council Top 100 diverse leader recognition. Chandra excels as a Global Vice President at Unisys, a $2B Fortune 800, where he heads Applications business with a passion for driving business value through 80% speed-to-market modernization, delivery excellence, and high performing global TEAM of TEAMS Operating Model™.
Chandra is Forbes's official writer on emerging technology & cultural transformations based on leadership experience at Charles Schwab, Thomson Reuters, Dell, Vistra Energy, and Cap Gemini. Chandra has an MS and a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Chandra is a mentor at The DEC Network promoting entrepreneurship; advisor at Halen, the next big $1.5 trillion market industry disruption.
You can find him cheering for Indian cricket and Dallas Cowboys American football while co-authoring leadership books on the weekends. Chandra volunteers at National Multiple Sclerosis & Support Our Soldiers as an executive sponsor.
CIO Oregon Tool
Venkat Paruchuri is currently the Global Chief Information Officer of Oregon Tool.
Venkat has a proven track record of success in Information Technology and Digital Transformation with over 25 years of experience.
Earlier, Venkat served as the Vice President of IT at Lennox International for nearly 5 years where he was instrumental in building the Business Applications and Advanced Technology team. Venkat also led the formation of the Chief Information Architect’s Office, Advanced Technology and Data Science teams and introducing new and emerging technologies to Lennox in an effort embrace and foster the use of technology across all business functions. Prior to this role, he served as Head of eCommerce and Supply Chain IT at Keurig Dr Pepper for nearly 9 years where he led a number of ecommerce, Supply Chain Transformation and Omnichannel Distribution initiatives. Prior to Dr Pepper, Venkat spent 13 years in Consulting with Accenture, KPMG and Johnson Controls.
