
Sanjeev Bhalla • Vice President of Engineering and Operations
Sanjeev is an expert in developing telco-grade products and in managing and operating high-availability, mission-critical communication services. His experience includes over ten years at Comverse, the worldwide leading provider of telecom systems for network-based multimedia communication services. At Comverse, Sanjeev led various R&D groups as well as Product Management and Business Management functions. He was Assistant Vice President in Americas for Instant Communications Division and instrumental in launching Comverse's Hosted Services in Americas and Mobile Instant Messaging Service for Verizon Wireless and US Cellular. Prior to Comverse, Sanjeev was a Software Architect at Oberon Software, a provider of Visual tools for integrating business processes. In earlier stages of his career, Sanjeev was a software developer in database systems at Digital Equipment Corporation and Computer Corporation of America.
Sanjeev has an Executive MBA from Northeastern, a M.S. in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
Michael Cartabiano • Chief Creative Officer
Mike was the Founder and President of Sennari Games, Inc., a leading distributor and developer of "best-of-breed" wireless entertainment products acquired by Sennari Entertainment. A pioneer in mobile gaming, he developed top sellers such as JAMDAT Bowling and Corvette Racing USA. Mike also established Sennari as a "turn key" mobile solution by creating and publishing many unique games on Verizon and other carriers.
Mike has over 20 years of electronic gaming and consumer product development, marketing and management experience including Vice President of Product Design for Disney Brands at Mattel Toys. He has held Vice President level development positions with various consumer products and electronics corporations, founded a successful product development consulting firm and is an advisor to numerous technology firms. He holds patents on various electronic products.
Mike is also a member of the IGDA and is a speaker on numerous wireless and games panels throughout the US. He is also active as a student career advisor at several Los Angeles high schools.
Julian Hardy • President EMEA
Julian is well known in the European community as an expert in breakthrough forms of entertainment for new media. He is the former EMEA president of MFORMA, the world's leading wireless entertainment publisher. While at MFORMA, Julian managed the growth of the EMEA as a stand alone business taking it from start-up to a multi-million dollar operation, with the most extensive market share across Europe. Prior to MFORMA, Julian was CEO of Scan Mobile, an SMS applications company building leading edge products for mobile carriers.
Other notable positions include: President, EMEA of Sorrent-a leading wireless entertainment publisher; managing director at Freeserve, the UK's first free ISP and portal managing the portal; vice president Europe for MTVi; and commercial director for IPC Electric, a part of IPC Magazines Group Ltd. Earlier in his career, Julian was commercial director at Capital Interactive, an innovator of digital entertainment and cross media promotion, and a co-founder of EMAP Online, one of Europe's largest media groups.
Julian Hardy is an advisor to a number of start-up mobile ventures including: Telcogames, Ariadne Capital, Oberon Inc, Vividas PLC, and Globalia S.A.
Mohan Sadashiva • Vice President of Products
Mohan Sadashiva is the VP of Products at Sennari. He is responsible for product direction and vision. Mohan came to Sennari from Trimble, where he was the VP of Products with P&L responsibility for a $100M on-demand field force solution. Prior to Trimble, Mohan served as the Chief Product Strategist at Openwave Systems leading engineering, product management and product marketing for platform products, and all off-shore product development for the company. Mohan has also held leadership positions in Schlumberger and Nortel.
Mohan received an MBA from Columbia University, New York City and an MS in Computer Science from the Queen's University, Canada.
Alfredo Narez • Chief Marketing Officer
Alfredo Narez joined Sennari with more than 17 years of experience in strategic planning, marketing, product management, advertising and brand development. He currently leads Sennari’s brand and product marketing initiatives. Prior to Sennari, Mr. Narez served as VP of Marketing for Air2Web, a leading mobile messaging and marketing company, where he played an important role in shaping the landscape of the company’s messaging and product offering. Mr. Narez has also held leadership positions at Web.com, Verizon, AT&T, Telscape Communications, and Epoch Internet.
Mr. Narez serves on the NTObjective’s Professional Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University, a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Southern California, and has completed post-graduate programs at MIT and Kellogg. He is also an active member of the CMO Council and Standard & Poor’s Society of Industry Leaders.
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