Dr. T.V. Nagendra Prasad
Consul General, India at San Francisco
Ambassador Dr. Nagendra Prasad before taking over as the Consul General of India at San Francisco, served at the Ministry of External Affairs as Joint Secretary heading the Gulf Division.
Ambassador Dr. Nagendra Prasad before taking over as the Consul General of India at San Francisco, served at the Ministry of External Affairs as Joint Secretary heading the Gulf Division.
He joined the Indian Foreign Service in the year 1993 and served in various positions at Indian Missions including Tehran, London, Thimphu, Berne and Ashgabat. He was India's Ambassador to Turkmenistan from July 2014 to January 2018.
Back home in India, he served as Regional Passport Officer, Bengaluru(1999-2001) and as Project Director of the Passport Seva Project, one of the Mission Mode Projects under e-Governance(2008-2011).
Dr. Prasad was born in the district of Warangal, Telangana. He graduated from the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University and received his Doctorate from the prestigious Indian Agricultural and Research Institute in New Delhi.
He is married to Padmavathi and has one son. His interests include books, movies and golf.
B.J. Arun
President, TiE Silicon Valley
B.J. Arun is a successful serial entrepreneur who brings over 25 years of leadership experience in the Information Technology industry. He was most recently CEO of July Systems (acquired by Cisco in 2018), a cloud-based mobile internet platform company powering consumer facing mobile services of some of the largest brands in the world. July's customers include Intel, Cisco, ESPN,
B.J. Arun is a successful serial entrepreneur who brings over 25 years of leadership experience in the Information Technology industry. He was most recently CEO of July Systems (acquired by Cisco in 2018), a cloud-based mobile internet platform company powering consumer facing mobile services of some of the largest brands in the world. July's customers include Intel, Cisco, ESPN, CNN, LVMH, Toys R Us, NBA, NFL, NBC Universal, Viacom, PGA Tour, Turner Broadcasting, Wall Street Journal, News Corp, AT&T, Verizon, and CBS with a service footprint in over 100 countries, reaching over 150 million users and driving billions of transactions annually. Prior to July Systems Arun co-founded and was formerly CEO of Librato, a San Francisco based SaaS company offering a platform for Real-time Operations Analytics that accepts metrics from any source for real-time aggregation and transformation, anomaly detection, alerting, visual analysis and storage. Librato was acquired by Solarwinds (NYSE: SWI) in January 2015. Prior to Librato, Arun founded California Digital in San Jose, CA in 1994 and ran the company profitably since its inception. Arun orchestrated the acquisition of the assets of VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) in 2001 which catapulted California Digital into a market leadership position in the space of Linux based High Performance Computing and related software services. Under his leadership, California Digital deployed North America and Europe's fastest Supercomputer Thunder' at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in 2004. Arun is an active Charter Member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship since 1994. In addition to various awards and recognitions, Arun was awarded the prestigious Karnataka Rajyotsava Day Award' by the Chief Minister of Karnataka (India) on November 1st, 2004.