Murthy Nukula,
CEO of Digital Jones
Entrepreneur and Author of "The Web Services Derby"

Murthy was the founder and CEO of Digital Jones, running all aspects of the
startup which delivered next-generation guided selling solutions. After
Digital Jones was acquired by DealTime, Murthy became senior VP of
enterprise products for the commerce search technologies vendor. Prior to
his experience as a software entrepreneur, Murthy was a consultant with Bain
& Company in Boston, Mass. and Singapore.

He holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, a MS from MIT, and a
bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras.

Jnan Dash,
former Group VP,
System Architecture and Technology, Oracle Corp.

Mr. Jnan R. Dash is an executive consultant and software technology
visionary in Silicon Valley, California.
For last 10 years, Mr. Dash was an executive at Oracle Corporation’s
headquarters in California. Most recently, he was the Group Vice President,
Systems Architecture and Technology, where he focused on Oracle’s technology
and solution planning for large enterprises worldwide. He was the chief
technology officer for Oracle’s 16000 consultants for two years. Prior to
that he architected the planning of Oracle’s flagship server and mid-tier
products Oracle8i and 9i.

Mr. Dash is a well-known expert in the software industry. Prior to joining
Oracle in 1992, he spent 16 years at IBM in various positions including
development of the DB2 family of products and in charge of IBM's database
architecture and technology.

Mr. Dash is a frequent speaker at industry forums around the world on the
future of software and database technology and Oracle's technological
directions. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering and Master's degree in
Systems Design from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a chartered
member of TiE Silicon Valley and sits on several boards and advisory boards
of companies.

Anita Rao,
Software Sector
Garage Technology Ventures

Anita Rao comes to Garage Technology Ventures as the Software Sector
Leader with extensive software engineering expertise in the financial
service, CPG, CRM, and Web services industries. Prior to joining Garage, Anita
was the Vice President of Engineering at Jamcracker, where she led a team
in architecting and building a flexible, reliable, scalable Web services
platform to deliver IT services by aggregating best-of-breed
applications and ASPs. Before Jamcracker, she served as Senior Director of Oracle's
Customer Relationships Management Products Division, where she started
a new group to build Business Intelligence Systems for e-commerce, sales,
marketing, call center, and service applications. Prior to Oracle,
Anita was a Vice President in the Private Client Information Management and
Technology Group at Merrill Lynch. She has also worked as a Vice President in the
Corporate Database Administration Group at Bear Stearns, as a
consultant at AT&T, and at Elan Technology. Anita earned a M.B.A. in Finance and a
M.I.S. from Rutgers University, and a B.A. from Calcutta University.

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