Acartha Group Partner and CTO Ameet Patel serves on the board of Integrien. Prior to joining Acartha Group, Ameet spent seven years at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as Managing Executive of LabMorgan, a strategic technology advisory group within JPMorgan's investment banking Technology, Media and Telecom business unit. Prior to this role, Ameet was CTO of LabMorgan, with responsibility for delivering technology leadership for JPMorganChase's efinance business unit and providing strategic technology consulting services towards high impact 6sigma and digitization initiatives. He provided business & technology direction on their $500MM+ e-finance venture capital portfolio (Archipelago, MarketAxess, Dealertrack, IntraLinks, Tradeweb, Creditex, RiskMetrics, FxAll, Financial Engines,Kinexus, Yodlee, Tantau, and Home Advisor). Prior to his senior role at JPMorgan, Mr. Patel had a distinguished eight year career at BASF Corporation at its New Jersey headquarters that included heading BASF's System Integration Architecture and Development Group and its Advanced Technology Group. Mr. Patel has a M.S. in Computer Engineering, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.B.A. in Finance and Information Technology from Rutgers. Mr. Patel is broadly acknowledged as a technology industry leader and visionary as demonstrated by the following recognitions: ComputerWorld's "Top 100 IT Leaders" in 2004; InfoWorld's "Top 25 CTOs" in 2001; CIO Magazine's CIO-100 award for innovative business practices in 2001; and, Crain's "Top 40 under 40" young executives in 2000. |