Started as a leading Facebook app to let users follow friends' birthdays, holidays and other important events, Social Calendar plans to become a ubiquitous socially connected calendar - by combining Google Calendar-like calendar with social graph from Facebook and adding Twitter-like ability to discover, follow and share events and calendars.
Management Team
Raj Lalwani Entrepreneur-at-heart, Lalwani brings over 20 years of software experience to Social Calendar. Most recently, he was the founder and CEO of Billeo, the venture-backed consumer bill-pay startup company. Billeo raised over $11 million from industry insiders and institutional investors, and is deployed by Visa, JP Morgan Chase and other large financial institutions. Prior to Billeo, Lalwani co-founded Assigncorp, the online consulting/staffing/offshore development firm, which serviced customers like Blockbuster.com, Kaiser Permanente, Countrywide and Sony PlayStation. Lalwani began his career as a software development engineer for Hewlett-Packard. Lalwani holds an M.Tech. in computer science from IIT, Delhi, India, where he was also the class valedictorian and Gold Medal winner. He also holds an MS in computer science from Penn State University, and a certificate in databases from Stanford University.
David Jordan Jordan brings over 10 years of software experience to the Hallmark SocialCalendar team, including five years of experience designing user interfaces that specialize in web-based applications. Prior to co-founding SocialCalendar, he was the Principal User Interface Designer at InQuira, a company that focuses on improving customer interactions on the Web and in the call center. InQuira customers include Bank of America and Honda. Prior to InQuira, David worked as a User Interface Design Consultant with Billeo, as a User Interface Design Lead with Icarian and as a software development engineer with Icarian, Assigncorp, Intiva and InfoGain. Jordan holds a MS in computer science, with an emphasis in human-computer interaction design, from Stanford University, and a BS in computer science from UC Santa Barbara. He also is a member of BayCHI.
Vipin Joshi Vipin Joshi is a Director of Newput's India Development Center. He brings with him 33 years of managerial and operational experience in various chemical industries around the world. Vipin has worked with major Indian industry giant Aditya Birla Group as Vice President in India and Thailand; setting up chemical industries, improving utilization of raw materials, utilities and manpower. Aditya Birla group has several plants in India, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Vipin has also worked with Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry group in their pulp, rayon and other chemical plants. Sapoorji Mistry group is a well-known construction company in India, Middle East and Europe. Vipin worked with National Chemicals in Bahrain to pull it out of red. The plant was not producing as per the quality norms and the cost of production was very high due to poor plant availability. Vipin's last assignment was with Rhodia Chemicals at Ambernath, Mumbai where he used his talent to reduce the cost of production drastically by 30% by incorporating the latest technologies with minimal investment and reducing manpower required. Vipin is associated with data processing centers since 1979 when HCL began its operations with desktop computers using BASIC as the programming language. Vipin has worked with IT, computers and networking at the plants. Vipin has a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering (1968) from IIT Mumbai, India and M.E. in Industrial Engineering from Indore University (1979). He has remained on the merit list throughout his academic life. |
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