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Vasudev (Vas) Bhandarkar actively assists private companies in venture financing, business strategy/development, team development and global sales and marketing. During his career Vas has successfully built/helped build businesses in Wireless/Internet (Unimobile, carwale.com) Enterprise software (Selectica/B2B2C, Remedy/B2B), and Outsourced Services (Global logic) industries. His operational experience spans 22 years in marketing, business development, sales, product development and general management.
He began his career as a technologist working at Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation and Apple Computer. Most recently Vas worked in the Venture Capital Industry as a private investor and briefly as a Venture Partner at BlueRun Ventures reviewing Mobile and Internet software/services deals. Prior to his work as a venture capitalist, he was Chairman and CEO of Unimobile, a wireless platform software company which was sold to Electronics for Imaging (EFII). Unimobile had 1.2M consumers worldwide and their products were used by leading Banks, Financial Institutions and Airlines in the world.
Prior to his work at Unimobile, Vas was the founding Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Selectica Inc. A leading provider of intelligent selling systems and configuration tools for the Internet, which had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ (SLTC) in 2000. At Selectica, he was instrumental in shaping the company’s software strategy and helped close the first partnership and sales deals (Ascend, BMW, HP) that established the company as a leader in the market. Prior to Selectica he founded and ran a successful software services firm, Alma Enterprises which he merged into Selectica. He has also held senior technology and executive positions at Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple Computer and Remedy Corporation.
Vas holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Colorado State University and Physics from IIT-Bombay. Vas has completed course work towards an MBA at Santa Clara University and executive education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vas is a charter member of TiE The Indus Entrepreneurs Organization. He is also involved with SINE - the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT-Bombay and Team-CSU from Colorado State University. | 