RAJIV MEHTA – CEO
Rajiv has led strategy and execution in numerous technologies for more than two decades, including mobile devices, wireless technologies, laser systems, digital imaging, stereo-vision systems and natural language processing technologies. He has played key leadership roles at Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Interval Research, Regis McKenna and Symbol Technologies. Rajiv has also been a startup CEO twice before – at Tyzx, a spin-out of Interval Research Corporation focused on commercializing a ground-breaking vision technology and at Dejima, a startup that developed proprietary natural-language-understanding technology.
Rajiv also developed many entrepreneurial skills at several of his previous employers, including Symbol Technologies and Adobe Systems. As a Symbol Fellow, for example, he was responsible for evaluating and growing business opportunities based on novel technologies and product concepts. At Symbol, he also developed a major new business line based on a novel wireless technology platform, simultaneously recruiting a development team, developing prototypes and selecting “beachhead” markets. Earlier, at Adobe, he developed and implemented a strategy to significantly expand Adobe’s digital imaging business via new products, services and partnerships and recruited the required team to manage product, strategy and business development. He also forged agreements with several strategic alliance partners to develop and strengthen relations with major players in digital photography and negotiated agreements with several partners for complementary products and services.
Because of his pioneering work and skill as a photographer, Rajiv has been a presenter at various imaging tradeshows. He holds a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University; a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University; and an MBA from Columbia University.
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PRIYA KAMANI, MD – COO and Chief Medical Officer
Priya has spent a career in healthcare driving business and clinical innovation for patients, providers, health plans and employers. Most recently, she played a key role as a vice president at Neoforma, helping the company evolve from a startup to the leading company in its space with more than $80 million in annual revenues. At Neoforma, she successfully incubated and launched Data Management and Spend Intelligence businesses and helped guide Neoforma through a successful acquisition by GHX. She was also a general manager with P&L responsibility for all of Neoforma’s provider solutions for hospitals. In this position, she managed a team of 100 in the U.S. and India and was responsible for business strategy, product strategy, business development, sales, client services and data operations.
Previously, Priya led the New York Provider Consulting Practice at Mercer Consulting. In that position, she led sales efforts of consulting engagement to hospitals and pharmaceutical companies and collaborated on sales to larger employers. She also led hospital projects that required business strategizing, service line development and the development of business plans for centers of excellence.
Priya has served as an attending physician in pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital and was also a clinical associate professor at the University of California at San Francisco. She earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in biology and an MD degree with honor from the University of Colorado. She also holds a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
CHRIS ZEGELIN – Chief Technology Officer
Chris has more than three decades of eclectic experience in technologies ranging from phone systems to wireless to application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). He also holds 15 patents in standards and technology development. Chris has held management positions in technology engineering at Symbol Technologies, Chips and Technology, Wyse, OPCOM and ROLM. He also served as vice chairman of the committee responsible for developing and ratifying the 802.11 WLAN (“WiFi”) standard.
Chris’ zest for fresh challenges was underscored in his last job, as well as in his new position at Zume Life. While running CHZ Consulting, his own consulting firm, he was an engineering fellow at Red Wing Technologies, a Minneapolis engineering and marketing consultancy that works in the industrial control and medical fields. There he helped define a strategy and create products for Zigbee and Wi-Fi radios needed by the firm’s battery-powered sensor designs. Earlier, in a senior post at Symbol Technologies, he created the company’s WLAN Digital Design group. He helped develop Symbol’s WLAN products, including hands-on architectural development for the first-generation 802.11 access points and NICs. Chris was also vice chairman of the committee that initially ratified the 802.11 standard. Significant contributions included the basic wireless access mechanism, power save polling, the element structure and international roaming.
Chris earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
TRISHAN ARUL – Chief Financial Officer
Trishan has more than 12 years of experience in financial measurement, reporting, strategic planning and analysis in an array of companies and industries, from startups to public multinational companies. He has served as corporate controller at Marcus & Millichap, controller for McMorgan & Company and COO for Sonamo Collaborative Media. Trishan, who began his career in finance at Arthur Andersen, also served as business development manager and financial controller for Internal Research Corporation and held several posts at Spar Aerospace.
At Marcus & Millichap, Trishan was directly responsible for multiple parent company entities and one operating subsidiary. He also grew a four-person department processing transactions into a staff of 10 performing accounting, special projects and business systems management throughout the company. At Marcus & Millichap, Trishan also led the initial phase of an SAP system implementation. Previously, at McMorgan & Company, Trishan was the principal financial officer with responsibility for financial reporting, corporate accounting, management reporting, planning and internal controls. He also increased his scope of responsibility to include human resources and information technology and created a complete internal control system from scratch to meet Sarbanes Oxley requirements, substantially improving internal certification. Earlier in his career, as chief operating officer of Sonamo Collaborative Media, he created and managed a company of 18 fulltime personnel in conjunction with the company’s founder.
He earned his master’s degree in accounting from the University of Waterloo and a bachelor’s degree in Honors Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.