Our Team

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Yahel Ben-David

Executive Director and Co-Founder
Dr. Ben-David is a social entrepreneur who works at the intersection of wireless networks, freedom enhancing technologies, and social...
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Eric A. Brewer

Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board
Prof. Brewer leads the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions group (TIER) at Berkeley, he focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems...
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AnnaLee Saxenian

Board of Directors
AnnaLee is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of...
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Tamir Scheinok

COO / CFO
Tamir joined De Novo Group in 2019 to lead the group’s growth and diversity of projects. Tamir brings over 20 years of C-level, corporate...
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Vivek Sharma

Network Operations Lead
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Aseem Mahajan

Lead Software Developer
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Prabhat Bhardwaj

Software Development
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Tjender Kumar

Software Development
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Rupali Thakur

Network Operations
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Yatharth Sharma

Network Operations
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Tonisha Thakur

Network Operations

Advisory Board

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Dr. Divya Ramachandran

Co-Founder
Divya Ramachandran earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is affiliated...
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Dr. Sonesh Surana

Co-Founder
Sonesh Surana focuses on the design and implementation of low-cost ICT and related power infrastructure for developing regions...
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Dr. Rabin Patra

Co-Founder, Board Secretary
Dr. Rabin Patra is a co-founder at Tarana Wireless, a startup that builds smart antenna based wireless radio technology that...
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Dr. Melissa Densmore

Co-Founder, Advisory Committee Chair.
Melissa is a Researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India. She completed her PhD at...
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Prof. Alice Agogino

Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and affiliated faculty at the Haas...
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Prof. Sachin Katti

Sachin received his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2009, and his B.Tech in EE from IIT Bombay in 2003. His research focuses on
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Prof. Tapan Parikh

Tapan Parikh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research interests...
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Prof. Vern Paxson

Vern is a professor on the EECS faculty at UC Berkeley, and in addition leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer
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Mr. James Prince

Jim is the founder and president of the Democracy Council. He was a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Financial Advisory Services...
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Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy

Sylvia Ratnasamy is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in...
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Prof. Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker works in a variety of areas, including Internet architecture, Software-Defined Networking, data analytics, and large-scale...
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Prof. Ion Stoica

Ion’s main research emphasis is on cloud computing and networked computer systems. Past work includes the Dynamic Packet State...
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Prof. Umesh Vazirani

Umesh Vazirani received his B.Tech. in computer science from MIT in 1981 and his Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley in 1986. He