Team
Eric Moyer, CEO & Co-founder
Eric has over 18 years of experience in general management, product development, channel development, marketing, sales, and operations. Eric co-founded BooRah and oversees overall strategy, marketing, and business development opportunities. Prior to BooRah, Eric was the VP of Marketing and led the service launch of residential broadband wireless service for MetroFi. Prior to MetroFi, Eric was the Director of Product Marketing with Covad Communications, leading the development and launch of the 2001 "DemoGod"-winning DSL "JumpStart" installation kit at the Vortex/Demo conference. He has also held sales, marketing, and business segment management positions with Hewlett-Packard. Eric has a BS-EECS from Johns Hopkins and an MBA from Harvard University.
Nagaraju Bandaru, CTO & Co-founder
Nagaraju has 16 years of experience in general management, technology leadership and new market development. Nagaraju co-founded BooRah and currently leads the company's software and semantic technology development efforts. Prior to BooRah, Nagaraju was VP of Engineering at MetroFi, a wireless service provider, responsible for WiFi technology, OSS development and integration of ad-serving technologies. Prior to MetroFi, Nagaraju worked at Covad Communications, Lockheed Martin and Exodus Communications. Nagaraju has a BSEE and MSCS from University of Hyderabad, India. Read Blog
Shrisha Radhakrishna, Director of Engineering
Shrisha has 7 years of experience in architecture, design, and development of consumer software solutions and also product management. Previously at Covad, As product manager of VoIP services, Shrisha was responsible for delivery of a first-in-class small-business VoIP solution. As Senior Engineering manager, Shrisha oversaw customer e-commerce applications and was responsible for architecture, technology & solution evaluation, and partner integration.
Advisors
Eduard Hovy
Eduard leads the Natural Language Research Group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He is Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division, as well as a research associate professor of the Computer Science Department of USC and Advisory Professor of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987. His research focuses on information extraction, automated text summarization, question answering, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, machine translation, and digital government. Dr Hovy regularly serves in an advisory capacity to funders of NLP research in the US and EU.
Kirthi Kalyanam
Kirthi is the J.C. Penney Research Professor, Director of Internet Retailing in the Retail Management Institute & Faculty Director of the eMBA program at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Dr. Kalyanam's areas of expertise include Internet Marketing, Retailing, Multi-Channel Marketing and Database Marketing. His clients have included the American Video Duplicators Association, The Gap, Acuson, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Siemens, Infotech (Mexico), Daehan Oil Corporation (S. Korea), Army and Air force Exchange Service (AAFES), ABN-AMRO, Overstock.com & the Thai Management Association. Dr. Kalyanam advises early stage startups on capturing & winning emerging markets. His expert work focuses on Internet Marketing, Retailing and Database Marketing, and has included designing and evaluating market research, damage assessment using transaction databases and testimony on industry best practices. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.