Board of Directors

  • Sameer Sawarkar CEO

    Sameer has been instrumental in sowing the seed for Neurosynaptic and bringing it to its current state. He brings vast technical and management experience to the organization. During 1999-2003, he has handled the position of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer at DACS Software. Before that he was with Motorola India Electronics Ltd, where he managed projects in Software Tools and DSP applications... Read more
  • Rajeev Kumar Founder and COO

    Rajeev brings experience in the areas of Digital Signal Processing, Real-time Operating Systems, Protocol Stacks and Software and Architecture tools to the organization. Earlier, he was with ZiLOG, Inc. at Austin, Texas and then relocated to their Bangalore facility, where he managed projects to develop embedded software for their family of micro-controllers and microprocessors... Read more
  • Shrikant Shingane Director

    Shrikant has 15+ years of entrepreneurial experience. He was Co-founder and Director (Business) at Mango Technologies – Mobile IP Company. He has also co-founded Poseidon, an ESL product company, ranked among the top most high tech companies in the world... Read more
  • Nagaraja Prakasam Director

    Nagaraja (Naga) Prakasam is a versatile and passionate leader with 2+ decades of global experience (decade in the USA and a decade+ in India). As a full time angel investor, invested in 19 start-ups and seen 4 exits. Spearheaded Impact thinking in Indian Angel Network and co-founded IANImpact. His personal mantra is “Start-ups should focus on India’s strength – people, problems, Tech (PPT)”... Read more
  • Charles-Antoine Janssen Director

    Charles-Antoine Janssen is an impact investor focused on health care access. In 2012, Charles co-founded Kois, a global impact investing firm (blended finance structuring and asset management) active in health care, education/skilling, and living environments. He is a member of the investment committee of two Kois venture capital funds: HealthQuad (India health care delivery and technology innovations) and Tara IV (India health care and social entrepreneurship focus)... Read more