Hari Surapaneni, President and CEO
Hari has been a Silicon Valley veteran for over twenty years in the semiconductor technology industry. He worked in various engineering leadership positions in VLSI development of Communications and Processor products at National Semiconductor Corporation, Amdahl Corporation, TRW Defense Systems before he founded Chiplogic in 1997. Chiplogic was a Network Processor company for the Customer Premises Equipment market. Products are designed to carry multi-service traffic (voice, video and data) over the broadband pipe to the premises. Chiplogic was acquired by Analog Devices, Inc at the beginning of 2001 and Hari joined ADI as Senior Product Line Director of the Network Media Platforms Product Line. 

In this role Hari grew the service provider focused business, addressing IP communications and Triple play strategies including IP STB strategies.

Hari holds an MSCS from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MSCE from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.


Venkata R Kode
Venkat has an MS in Management from Sloan School of Management, MIT and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Iowa. Venkat has more than twenty years of experience working for companies like National Semiconductor Corp., Advanced Micro Devices, Toshiba America Electronics Corporation, Spectra Group, Coca Cola India, Altus Ventures etc. 

Venkat has diverse industry experience including consumer goods, financial services, franchising, semiconductors, software and venture capital. His functional experience ranges from finance, operations, marketing and sales, to engineering and manufacturing. At Coca Cola India, he was responsible for the Bottling operations for South West with a turnover of more than Rs. 1000 million.

Venkat's strength is his management skill set, which he has demonstrated many times by increasing the top line by driving growth, while at the same time improving the bottom line by driving productivity and efficiency. After serving the company for almost four years as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, Venkat now advises the company as a board member.


Bharani Prasad Bobba
Bharani Bobba is a Partner and Founder of Baseline Partners. Mr. Bobba sits on the board of three companies, two of which are portfolio companies of Baseline. Prior to forming Baseline Partners in 2007, Mr. Bobba was a Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch. He was directly responsible for the Information Technology (IT) Services Investment Banking practice in the Americas and Global Coordinator of strategic and corporate finance dialogue for US, European and Indian IT companies. 

Mr. Bobba joined Merrill Lynch in 1997 after completing his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University with a concentration in Finance. Prior to business school, Mr. Bobba was an Analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1992 to 1995. He received a BA in Economics, cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1992 where he was inducted into the Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society and the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society.