Management Team

Sanjeev Sisodiya CTO

Sanjeev brings over 12 years of hands-on software development and engineering management experience to Connectbeam. Sanjeev has done pioneering work, and holds patents in the areas of cryptography, file systems and digital media.

Most recently Sanjeev led the Engineering team at CourseCafe Inc. Prior to that he spent four years as Principal Engineer at Bluearc, a network attached storage company. Earlier he spent seven years in a variety of engineering roles at Silicon Graphics.

Sanjeev holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Angelo State, and Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State.

Farsheed Tari VP PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Farsheed Tari is responsible for all aspects of product management and customer service at Connectbeam. Farsheed brings more than 12 years of successful product management and software development experience at both early-stage startup and large public companies. Over the years he has held responsibilities for product management, product marketing, analyst relations, OEM partnerships, software development and release management.

Prior to joining Connectbeam, Farsheed was the director of product management at Oracle Corp (NASDAQ: ORCL) where he led the Fusion TM SFA product management team. Prior to Oracle, he was a senior product line manager at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corp NASDAQ: ORCL) where he was responsible for product lifecycle management of Siebel SalesTM application. Earlier in his career, he served as director of product management at Selectica Inc. (NASDAQ: SLTC) a leading provider of configuration and pricing enterprise software that enables customers to manage and sell complex product offerings.

Farsheed holds a bachelor's of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chamran University and master's of science degree in Robotics Control from San Jose State University.

Chuck Pendell VP SALES

Chuck Pendell brings more than two decades of high tech sales and management experience to Connectbeam. Most recently, he was VP of Sales for Active Decisions, a consumer product guided selling technology. Active Technologies was acquired by Knova. His career includes sales and management positions with Burroughs/Unisys, Saros/Filenet, Action Technologies, Movaris, and Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC), where he built the worldwide sales and field support team from three members to over 100, resulting in the highly successful Selectica IPO in March of 2000.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Chuck graduated from Washington State University with a BS in Business Administration.

Sridhar Kunisetty CHIEF ARCHITECT & DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

Sridhar is responsible for the product architecture and leads the engineering team at Connectbeam. He has over 12 years of experience in various technical and management roles at companies like Oracle, Commerce One, and iPass.

At Commerce One, he developed the architecture and managed the development of the largest web-based B2B marketplace, while at Oracle he developed the highly-successful Oracle Forms product that is used world-wide.

Sridhar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from NIT (National Institute of Technology), Warangal, India, and a M.S in Computer Science & Engineering from University of Florida.