Ramesh Mehta

as well as VC Funded).

Recently, he architected and led the M&A and private equity investment for Moai and Medebiz. Further he led and successfully executed merger, integration, restructuring, consolidation, rationalization, and turn around. In the process he has honed his innate skills, of due diligence, negotiation, deal architecting, as well as transformation. Investment group included HP, Intel, UPS, Merrill Lynch, Accenture, CIBC, Seligman, Reuters and Eastman.

For over 10 years, Mr. Mehta has been angel investing, guiding, growing and managing several high-technology companies. He founded Medebiz, a health care supply chain solution provider; American Hytech Corporation, a telecom/B.P.O. solution provider; Netguru, a network management solutions company, and Instaplan, a project planning and management software company. InstaPlan was founded in his basement during 1987, in collaboration with WIPRO was truly a first product company developed via a BPO model, pioneered by Mr. Mehta.

Previously, in a career spanning 10 years, Mr. Mehta held key operating executive positions with profit and loss responsibility at both Siemens Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP). He has built a stellar reputation in BPO and Global Business management, multinational/OEM, channel management, mass merchandising, and international marketing/operations and finance. He increased the market share in Japan, Korea, Australia, China and countries in Europe and South America. He won large ($15M to $75M) multi-national contracts with Olivetti, ICL, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Shell, Nippon Sttel, Xerox, Ford, Chase, CitiGroup, American Express, Unilever and Reuters, Lucent, AT&T, NCR and various governments.

Mr. Mehta served on the board of directors of the World Trade Center, CEO Forum, and the Springboard Angels. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration. In recognition of his efforts and success, he has received the US Small Business Administration Businessman of the Year Award, along with several other accolades/awards from the Department of Defense and other agencies as well as various industry associations and the press. He has shared his experiences at speaking forums throughout the world, including Internet World Expo, Comdex, Mid-Atlantic CEO Retreat, Asia Pacific Forum, The Indus Entrepreneurs, The White House, European and Asian conferences, MIT, Harvard, the New England Association of Medicine, and Department of Commerce seminars.