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| PurpleACE Pte Ltd was founded in February 2002 by a group of veterans with over 40 years of experience in the communications industry. The company is headquartered in Singapore. |
Scott Sproule, CEO |
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Scott is CEO of Purple Ace and was the COO and majority owner of Express Telecom, a mobile network operator in the Philippines prior to this. Formerly with Millicom International Cellular (MIC), he led their Messaging, VAS and Information Technology teams in Asia, growing the business from 0 to 12 million dollars over two years. He moved to MIC from Nokia where he was Head of Mobile Internet Delivery. In a nine-year tenure with Nortel Networks prior to that, he was successful in numerous key positions, including R&D Management in Ireland and Regional Account Management in Houston. He is an active founder-investor in mobile data businesses and has been on the Board of Directors of various mobile network operators in Asia. |
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| Ravinder Namboori, VP Technology & Operations |
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| Ravi has over 6 years of experience in managing, delivering and deploying services for mobile networks, across a variety of platforms worldwide. Previously, he was the Chief Architect at PurpleAce, involved in architecting PurpleAce's communications and backup framework. In his previous stint at Seagate technologies, he helped re-engineer their Asia-pacific intranet knowledge-sharing system. Also involved in database and warehouse systems at Hewlett Packard, Ravi was an SIA-NOL Scholar at the National University of Singapore, and holds a postgraduate degree in Computer Graphics and Software Architecture. |
| Kartik Prabhakara, VP Products |
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| Kartik was previously with GE Robotics, responsible for designing next-generation communication interfaces; and Accenture, prototyping technologies for the wireless-for-government sector. Kartik was a SIA-Scholar at the National University of Singapore, a Caltech Research Scholar (California Institute of Technology), and a Fellow at the Lee Iacocca Institute. |
| Brojo Pillai, VP Business Development |
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| As VP Business Development, Brojo is responsible for driving new business in Asia and Europe, and building key partnerships for the company. Prior to joining Purple Ace, Brojo was a post-graduate Research Fellow, and an SIA-NOL Scholar, at the National University of Singapore. |
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Dr. Arun Swami, Chief Product Strategist |
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Dr. Swami’s seminal work on data mining is ranked
among the top 20 most cited papers of Computer Science. A key member of
the team that started IBM’s research in data mining technology,
Senior Computer Scientist in the Office of Technology at Adobe Systems;
co-founder and CTO of Neta, Inc. (acquired by Infoseek); Chief Data Architect
at Internet Profiles Corporation; Technical Lead on data mining at SGI.
Valedictorian of his class at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
India, he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. |
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Simon Wang, GM China |
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Simon is General Manager and Sales Director for Greater China and Simon was China Sales Director at Centigram, and Sales Director and China Head of Operators for Logica-CMG. |
| Oliver Kolbe, Director |
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| Oliver is Managing Partner and CFO of smac partners GmbH. Previously he was the COO of Siemens Communications Acceleration and Vice President Strategy and Marketing for Siemens Mobile. Oliver has a degree in business administration and finance. |
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Michael Hock, Director |
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Michael is Director Finance of smac partners GmbH. Prior to that, he held positions as Senior Commercial Manager, Subsidiary Manager, Risk Manager and Financial Analyst at Siemens Group in Munich and Boston. He has a degree in business administratoin and finance. |
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Eddie Chng, Director |
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| Eddie is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor having founded and taken several companies public. Eddie is an angel investor in Purple Ace. |
