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People
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Team | Contributors | Boards | Volunteers| Alumni
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Bhalchander Vishwanath, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ashok Parameswaran, Chief Financial Officer
Chiradeep Vittal, Chief Technology Officer
Shubha Shankaran, Co-Founder and Director, Community Development
Sivakumar Kalyanaraman
Arunkumar
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Bhalchander Vishwanath, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Bhalchander started work on United Prosperity from mid 2007. He has 16 years experience in information technology, insurance and financial services spanning multiple business functions including software development, marketing, sales, and operations in the US and India. He has worked with Infosys, MphasiS, Microsoft, Wipro and Tata Motors. He received a B.Tech from IIT-Bombay and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.
In his spare time he enjoys hiking with his wife, Shubha Shankaran.
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Ashok Parameswaran, Chief Financial Officer
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Ashok has over 10 years' experience in emerging markets. He worked for Fidelity Investments and various hedge funds analyzing emerging market credit risk, equities, and foreign exchange. He has also worked as a US Treasury Deparment economist and helped to start the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is on the Junior Board of Seeds of Peace. Ashok received a BA from Duke University and an MPP from Harvard University.
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Chiradeep Vittal, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Chiradeep has 15 years’ experience in building complex software systems ranging from network operating systems to enterprise software. Chiradeep is a veteran of several startups and has held architectural roles in Solidcore Systems, Matisse Networks, Ciena Corporation and Nortel Networks. He received a B.Tech from IIT-Bombay and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Alberta.
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Shubha Shankaran, Co-Founder and Director, Community Development
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Shubha has been involved in setting up United Prosperity along with her husband, Bhalchander Vishwanath. Her current efforts focus on community outreach through various events, building the online community, fund raising and proposals. While her professional backgound is in the field of neuroscience, she is passionate about the cause of ending poverty by empowering women. She holds a a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Cincinnati, and also works as Director, Neurobiology at KineMed, a biotech company in Emeryville, CA.
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Sivakumar Kalyanaraman, Sr. Architect at Cognizant
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Siva got involved in the United Prosperity project at its later stages. He is currently the development lead providing technical guidance to the development team. He has eight years of experience and he has worked on a range of technologies such as - Java, C/C++ and Perl / PHP. He has worked on performance engineering projects involving a variety of technologies/tools including J2EE, Oracle, Weblogic, WebSphere, Apahce, MySQL. Siva started his career with Cognizant in 2000.
He did his Bachelors in Physics from Bharathiar University, India and Master of Computer Applications from Anna University, India. Siva's interests include photography and experiments with his 3 SLR cameras.
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Arunkumar, Associate at Cognizant
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Arunkumar got involved in the United Prosperity project at its later stages. he has been involved in development of various modules. He has more than three years of experience in Web application development and maintenance using Open Source technologies. He has been mainly working on Ruby on Rails and PHP. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the Anna University, India. Away from work, He enjoys reading, solving puzzles, watching cartoons, sci-fi movies & playing cricket.
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