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David has a passion for helping others find ways to use their passions to make a difference in the world. Some would call him a work-aholic, while others see this as an execution of pure joy. With each item that's checked off on the to-do list, a happy dance ensues. While other team members may get discouraged by more "remember the milk" items added to the list, he is our cheerleader that gets the vision casted, the final code coded, the press release released, the sales document documented, and the Skype calls called.
He is excited to see Noozhoo expand to campuses nationwide and aspires to one day create an international presence with philanthropic educational services for developing nations.
Favorite Desk Item: A finger puppet named Anty (it's a long story)
Interests: space exploration, smoking a 100 year-old pipe while reading literature at least as old, Frank Sinatra, dancing, scuba diving, and YOU.
Contact: David@noozhoo.com
Kelsey is an applied anthropologist with expertise in research and business development. She thrives off understanding people, things, and systems holistically through unique media and methods. She has a passion for learning that has enabled her to converse with anyone by asking great questions and actively listening. Her goal is to share this passion with the Noozhoo community to create the best user experience in the industry.
Favorite Desk Item: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mini action figures
Interests: wine, cigars, running in Central Park, alpacas, and YOU.
Contact: Kelsey@noozhoo.com
Has over six years of experience in Financial Sales and Wealth Management. He married in 2009 and in May of 2010 welcomed the loudest baby girl in the world. He refuses to run more than 5k at any one time and would gladly drink protein shakes for every meal of the day if it were at all feasible.
Favorite Desk Item: A Miniature Japanese garden bought in Japan with real sand that I can rake when I get tense.
Interests: My daughter, working out, moderately expensive cigars and shows on FX
Sada Chidambaram has managed two venture investment entities in Silicon Valley, USA; the first, the corporate strategic investment vehicle for ASCII Corporation and the second, Prospero Ventures, a federally licensed SBIC. Mr. Chidambaram has more than 30 years of industry experience and 16 years of venture investing and strategic business development experience
Sada Chidambaram a founding partner of Prospero Ventures (Prospero) was recruited from Tandy Corporation by Kazuhiko Nishi, the founder and President of ASCII Corporation (ASCII), a Japanese corporation. Mr. Nishi and ASCII Corporation are credited with galvanizing the PC industry in Japan, and later beach-heading Microsoft in Japan.
Mr. Chidambaram, an early player in the PC arena and involved in the launch of Tandy's TRS-80 microcomputers, established ASCII of America (AOA) in 1988 and remained as its President through 1999. ASCII rapidly developed a network of strategic alliances with emerging U.S. companies in Software, Semi-Conductors, ASICs, video-compression technologies, and PC/video-telecommunications, often augmenting the relationships with direct equity investments and promoting new relationships between ASCII's U.S. partners and its many strategic partners in Japan. Mr. Chidambaram served on the Board of Directors of ASCII and in 1997 recommended and obtained board approval to spin out the venture investment activities into a separate standalone venture fund, ASCII Ventures (AV), re-named Dotcom Ventures in 1999 after the spin-out from ASCII and which, after the Dotcom bubble, was later re-named in 2001 as Prospero Ventures. The fund applied for an SBA license in late 1997 and was successfully licensed by the U.S. Federal government as an SBIC in late 1999. Prospero Ventures was a member of the NVCA.
Mr. Chidambaram has served as a director, as well as an investor representative, on the boards of several companies, including ASCII Corp., Information Storage Devices, 8X8, Inc., International Datacasting Corp. (Ottawa), Nexgen/AMD, Power Computing, Salon.com, Cyberbills, nCommand. He also serves on the boards of Kiwi Ventures, Milan, the first Italian technology fund and the Angels' Breakfast Club of Silicon Valley.
Mr. Chidambaram holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry from Loyola in Madras, India.
Gary Crockett is an angel investor and mentor to early-stage startup entrepreneurs. His professional background includes over 30 years in software and telecommunications, including software development and architecture, development management, and senior management.
Mr. Crockett was CEO of IEX Corporation from 1988 until the company's acquisition in 1999 by Tekelec Corporation. During that time IEX grew from a dozen employees to 250, developed the industry-leading product for call center workforce management, and created innovative intelligent network products for the telecommunications industry. After IEX's acquisition Mr. Crockett was CTO of Tekelec until 2003.
Prior to joining IEX, Mr. Crockett held development and management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working on operations support systems, real-time enhancements to the Unix operating system, and packet switching products.
Mr. Crockett received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and has seven patents for software he developed.
Mike Grubbs has over 25 years of leadership experience in mobile information and communications, personal computing, and consumer electronics. Mike served as Vice President of Products at Ecrio leading marketing, product management, and the partner program. Prior to Ecrio, Mike lead the Client Products and Devices Solutions Services organizations for Openwave Systems which were responsible for software shipped in over 1.5 billion mobile devices and consulting services and end-to-end device management solutions for over 25 mobile operators worldwide. Prior to Openwave, Mike held senior product and business unit positions at Gateway, Compaq Computer, AST Research, and Tandy Corporation. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University.
His past accomplishments include leading the teams that developed three of PC World's 25 Greatest PC's of all time. He was on the team that developed the first PC sold at retail and lead the teams that developed the first notebook computer, Multimedia PC, Convergence PC, and the first mobile phone access to consumer email services. Mike's past industry positions include serving on the Executive Board of the Consumer Electronics Association and Chairman of the Communications and Information Technology Division. He was chairman of the Multimedia PC Council and represented the Electronics Industries Alliance on the US Government Convergence Roundtable.
Peter Nguyen is currently the CEO of Ad Ventures Corp and creator of Advertiser360, the most comprehensive course ever created to help people build their own product or service online. He has started nine business start ups over the past decade as an entrepreneur, worked as a marketing consultant for the global leader in electronic payments and is a contributing writer for a diversity business publication. Having traveled the states speaking and empowering next generation leaders, he serves on a board for five national and global non-profit organizations including World AIDS Marathon, Movement Hub, Southeast Asian Committee, and Universal Outreach Cooperative. Currently, he is President of Shock Media Group, one of the fastest-growing internet advertiser and currently resides in Irvine, California.
