Management

Sailesh Chutani

Sailesh Chutani, Ph.D., CEO and Co-founder

Sailesh has 25 years of experience in creating successful new businesses and products. Prior to Mobisante, he managed $100m worth of exploratory research investments in emerging technologies to identify and seed new businesses at Microsoft. He also led the turnaround of the WebTV acquisition into a profitable business, launching multiple new product and services with revenues that peaked at $220m. He has had business and technical leadership roles in companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Transarc – a start up acquired by IBM that became a billion dollar business.

Sailesh has championed cell phone technologies in healthcare since 2005 and he co-authored the book, "Technology at the Margins" that takes a global view of the impact of the mobile phone on health-care, education, micro-finance and resource management.

David M. Zar

David M. Zar, CTO and Co-founder

David has 18 years of experience in various aspects of ultrasound hardware and software design and development. He has been a research associate at Washington University in St. Louis where he worked on ultrasound, high-speed telecommunications, asynchronous circuits and meta-stability analysis of synchronizers.

He was a co-founder of two start-ups; Z&R Technologies and BLENDICS. He has written device drivers and user applications, as well as designed hardware used in ultrasound imaging. He has a track record of pursuing cutting edge research and translating research into successful products.

Menahem (Meno) Nassi

Menahem (Meno) Nassi, PhD

Dr. Nassi has been a successful MedTech Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, R&D Executive, and CEO since 1991, The companies include: DiaSonics (Director R&D, Ultrasound Division), Cardiometrics (CEO), EndoSonics (BoD), PharmaSonics (CEO), MedGenics (CEO), ReVascular Therapeutics (CEO), NextRay (CEO), Advanced Bifurcation Systems (Interim CEO).

He successfully led Cardiometrics IPO in 1995 and M&A with EndoSonics in 1997. Since then he has led multiple venture capital rounds, and strategic corporate financings for several MedTech startups. His PhD is in Bioengineering – Medical Imaging Systems from Stanford University.

Nikhil J. George

Nikhil J. George

Nikhil is the Chief Engineer at Mobisante, where he is responsible for product architecture and design and managing engineering and QA activities. Prior to joining Mobisante, Nikhil was the CEO of PodCurry, a startup that built a mobile and cloud services offering for the media companies. While at Microsoft Nikhil worked on several new products including the Oslo Server. His work in distributed application monitoring, management and modeling shipped in Windows Azure, .Net Framework 4.0, Windows Server App Fabric and BizTalk Server.

Nikhil pioneered the use of commodity hardware and map reduce to do high performance computing; and he built one of the first autonomous mobile robots in India in the late 90’s. Nikhil’s work has won him multiple awards from IEEE, IIT Bombay, Sony Corporation and Carnegie Mellon University. Nikhil has a Masters in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and an undergrad in Electronics from the University of Mumbai.