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Michael Dost – Chairman
Michael Dost is a founding partner at Octane Venture Partners. Octane is an oil and gas technology fund that is focused on adding value to technology companies by introducing them into the Canadian oil and gas sector. Michael has been involved in the Venture Capital industry for over a decade was most recently Director, Venture Capital at BDC Capital. BDC is one of the largest venture capital players with investments across a broad range of industries. Prior to joining BDC, Michael was a part of the management team at AudeSi Technologies, a high tech BDC investee company. AudeSi was sold to Wind River for $70 million in April, 2000.Michael has also been involved in the operations of a variety of businesses in the transportation, software, and high tech fields. He has extensive experience on the Board of Directors of technology companies including Invidi, Optessa, Nanosteel and 3ESI. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
John Kemp-Welch
John joined BDC Venture Capital in January 1997. He has over twenty one years of investment management experience with early stage technology companies. From 1987 to 1997, John held progressively senior investment management positions at Innovation Ontario Corporation, a venture capital firm involved in early stage technology investments. In that role, he worked closely with the board and management of over thirty early stage technology companies. From 1981 to 1986, John was an investment manager with the Ontario Energy Corporation, which invested in a variety of oil, gas, and energy-related technology companies. John Kemp-Welch holds Bachelor degrees in both Economics and Geography from McMaster University.
Padman Ramankutty
Padman Ramankutty is a well known Supply Chain and Enterprise strategist with deep expertise in new generation technologies deployment. Padman has over 20 years experience in the ERP space and serves on the board of several venture backed companies. He is an advisor to several Fortune 500 CIOs. He also advises startups on their strategy and positioning and his expertise is often tapped into by SAP Ventures to provide due diligence on business software.
Padman is also the co-founder of KRK Labs, a Silicon Valley incubator. Prior to that Padman was CEO of Bristlecone, an IT services company that he founded in 1998 and spearheaded for over 8 years .
Before founding Bristlecone in 1998, Padman headed SAP's High Tech Global Industry Business Unit where he successfully positioned SAP R/3 as the premier enterprise solution for the semiconductor industry. Padman has also played a key role in the development, strategic assessment and marketing of SAP's Supply Chain Optimization and MES programs. He has held senior operational positions in diverse industries ranging from aerospace and defense, food processing and engineering.
He has a Masters in Business Administration from California State University Northridge, Masters in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State and Bachelor in Engineering from the University of Madras, India.
Srinivas (Vasu) Netrakanti
Please see Optessa Management Team
Ashok Erramilli
Please see Optessa Management Team
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