Sashi Chimala

7th batch alumnus

Currently a serial enterpreneur

See a report on his selling Interactive Media Technology, Inc., a US-headquartered company that owns online casual games portal Knibble.com for $3 million in stock.

http://www.vccircle.com/2007/12/17/fxlabs-acquires-sashi-chimalas-online-gaming-company-knibblecom-for-3m-in-stock/

One of his current enterprises

http://crictv.com/

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Sashi Chimala
Entrepreneur, Advisor, Angel Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

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Sashi about himself

I'm a serial entrepreneur and love the challenge of spotting technology and consumer trends and starting and growing businesses. I've focused on Technology, E-Commerce and Retail industries and have served in every capacity: Founder, Board Member, CEO, Business Development, and Sales. I've raised institutional financing, grown and sold businesses for 7-figure exits.

* Experienced entrepreneur -- multiple start-ups and successful exits.
* Successfully negotiated the acquisition of minority stake in a company I co-founded by a $2 Billion company.
* Was invited by a $40 Billion Asian group to conceive, develop, set-up and operate a large retail business.
* In less than six months, created and successfully sold Knibble.com, one of the largest aggregator of online casual games on the Internet.
* Currently developing and deploying an innovative 'ethnic behavioral targeting' digital ad network.

Sashi Chimala’s Specialties:
Strategy, ability to forecast trends and markets, building compelling brands and marketing.

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Sashi Chimala’s Experience
Principal, Founder
PayPod
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — Present (2 years 7 months)

PayPod specializes in interactive marketing solutions for advertisers targeting South Asian Consumers in the US, UK, Middle East and India. PayPod brings together a network of 'best of breed' South Asia focused publishers delivering millions of monthly impressions.

PayPod's proprietary categorization and learning engine automatically analyzes and profiles Publisher sites, Advertiser campaigns and Online consumers and uniquely matches to provide the best click-through ratios on Interactive campaigns.

Paypod - India's leading digital Ad network
http://www.paypod.com/welcome.action

http://www.paypod.com/corporate_view.action

Founder & CEO
Knibble.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

April 2007 — December 2007 (9 months)

Knibble.com was the largest aggregator of online casual games with over 10,000 games. Within less than 6 months of its inception, Knibble.com was acquired for $3M in December 2007 by FX Labs Limited, one of the largest game development studios in Asia.

Founder
Qwiky's Coffee
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

October 1999 — October 2006 (7 years 1 month)

As the Founder of Qwiky's Coffee, Sashi is hailed by press and media in India as the 'one who started the coffee revolution in India".
Hindu, one of India's largest and most respected newspapers wrote "if and when somebody writes the history of the city as it has come to be, he will go down as the man who sold coffee to Chennai, something an average Chennaite will acknowledge is much like selling 'snow to an eskimo'"
Time Of India, the largest circulated news papers in India titled Sashi as the 'Coffee King" in one of its features.

Founder & CEO
Indigo Technologies
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1991 — March 1999 (7 years 9 months)

Indigo Technologies based in Cupertino CA, specialized in Banking and Securities technologies and IT services. Indigo developed TESA, a securities automation softwate that powered several stock exchanges in Asia. It was hailed by NASD as extremely scalable and fault tolerant.
Based on the thought leadership and accomplishments of Indigo, Tandem Computers (acquired by Compaq) acquired a minority stake in Indigo in 1998.
Indigo was sold in 1999 to SSI Ltd., a publicly traded company in India.

Founding Member
Covansys (Formerly CBSI Inc.)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; cvns; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1986 — June 1991 (4 years 11 months)

As one of the founding members of this pioneering and successful IT services company, assisted the Founder in starting the company. Later joined him to set up West coast operations. Conceived and developed SIMPL one of the earliest software configuration management software that was successfully implemented at World Bank, SWIFT as well as GSA.

Manager
Petrolite
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1981 — August 1986 (5 years 1 month)

Petrolite was s speciality chemicals company based out of St. Louis, MO. Sashi managed a Database group as well as built several end user applications.


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Sashi Chimala’s Education
National Institute of Industrial Engineering
Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering(PGDIE), 1977 — 1979



JN Technological University, Kakinada, India
Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, April 1972 — April 1977

Sashi Chimala’s Honors:
As an entrepreneur, was featured on CNN and BBC TV programmes. Appeared on the cover of Business World and Business Today magazines.