Management Team



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Prakash




Steve






Roger





Bob



DD Ganguly (DD),
Chief Executive Officer
Previously, as Vice President of Product Development at CA (NYSE:CA; $ 3.5B) he built and led an organization of 1000+ members. He joined CA in 2001 upon its acquisition of Boston based AIM, Inc. where he was founder and CEO. DD holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a master's degree in computer science from Syracuse University, where he was a University Fellow. He is a proud father and lucky husband. He does not sing well but that has never deterred him from trying.


Prakash Khot, Chief Technology Officer
Prakash Khot is responsible for overseeing the company's technology roadmap and leading Dimdim's engineering team. Prakash has a successful track record of driving the development of enterprise applications and next generation web applications. Prior to co-founding Dimdim, he led CA's (NYSE:CA) RFID Group in the Office of CTO. Prakash joined CA upon its acquisition of Boston based AIM, Inc. where he was co-founder and CTO. In his abundant free time he allegedly cooks gourmet food.



Steve Chazin,
Chief Marketing Officer
Steve has spent his career applying new approaches to marketing, sales, engineering and design to startups like Bowstreet and Adesso and large companies like Apple, Avid and Raytheon. At Avid, he grew the company's user base, drove Avid's most profitable product lines and built its Education vertical unit. For nearly a decade at Apple, Steve was a top sales executive and engineer and helped rebuild Apple's marketing efforts, returning the company to profitability. Prior to Apple, he was section manager at Raytheon responsible for the design of supersonic missile radomes. Steve has a BA in Physics from Franklin and Marshall College and a MSEE from Princeton University. Steve is a proud father of 3 boys and enjoys making gourmet espresso drinks for his wife when they manage to enjoy a few minutes together.


Roger Hodskins, VP, Worldwide Sales
Roger brings to Dimdim more than 25 years of senior sales leadership experience at fast-growing software companies. His track record includes two successful IPOs and three acquisitions valued at more than $1.5 billion. Before Dimdim, Roger was VP of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Lumigent responsible for leading the company's worldwide channel sales, marketing and business development teams. Previously, he was VP Worldwide Strategic Alliances at Ascential Software where he was a part of the executive team generating more than $120M in revenue. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hodskins held positions of VP of WW Sales, Services and Support at NetGenesis where he helped guide the company to a successful IPO and also served as VP of Strategic Alliances at Rational Software and at SQA.


Bob Dudley,
Chief Financial Officer
Bob brings more than 17 years experience as CFO in both publicly traded and venture-backed emerging-growth companies. As a founding CFO partner at Venture Advisors, he has been instrumental in securing venture financings, restructurings and driving scalable best-in-class business practices and standards for a broad range of venture backed companies since 2004. Prior to Venture Advisors, Bob served as CFO of Inso Corporation, a $70 million publicly traded enterprise Software Company. Bob holds an MBA from Suffolk University and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Bob and his wife are the proud parents of three children. Expressing his passion for music, Bob can be found singing in the tenor section of two classical choruses in the Boston area.



Founding Team




DD




Prakash



Steve




Roger



Jayant Pandit,
Co-Founder & Engineering Fellow
Jayant is committed to remaining a software developer for as long as possible as he dabbles in design and architecture. He has worked with many languages and technologies, but has now settled on Java for last 10 years where he represents the build side of buy versus build equation. Jayant understands Java but not the market and is content to let the rest of the team manage the business angle while he takes care of as much of the development as possible. He is a freshly-minted Canadian and determined to enjoy the privilege by spending every available free moment either enjoying or thinking about kayaking, canoeing, sailing and cottage life in general.



Rohit Shankar, Co-Founder and Director of Engineering
Rohit leads the engineering organization at Dimdim. Prior to Dimdim, Rohit was Manager Development at Computer Associates where he led the Development of Wireless Site Management r11 Suite. Earlier in his career, Rohit worked as technology consultant and co-founded a Mobile/Wireless Technologies startup. Rohit holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronic and Communication from R.E.C. Allahabad, India.



Saurav Mohapatra,
Co-Founder and Director of Technology
Previously as a Senior Software Engineer at CA Saurav was instrumental in the design and development of CA's J2EE management software suite after he joined CA in 2001 upon its acquisition of Boston based AIM, Inc. Born in India, Saurav holds a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural and Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. When he is not writing speculative fiction or illustrating gritty graphic novels, as the resident alpha geek of Dimdim, Saurav can usually be found plotting summary world domination with his mutant kittens Foo and Bar in a cunning plan which somehow involves kitty litter, chicken mesh wire and open source software. Saurav lives with his wife, daughter and kittens in Shrewsbury, MA.


Sundar Subramanian, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development
As the voice of the community inside the company Sundar translates the community needs into product specifications. This leads to innovative product design as many users not only convey their problems but also the solutions to those problems. After helping close the first hundred enterprise customers, he is now responsible for online sales and marketing at Dimdim. Sundar enjoys the rush of working on cutting edge technology: He worked on web services at CA; on petabyte networking at AT& T submarine systems (later Tycom), and on atomic energy reactors. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Drexel University and a BSEE from Bombay University. He is currently trying to restrict his internet usage to "only 20 hours per day"