Shirish Puranik has over 16 years experience in the software industry. Most recently, he was with @Road, Inc. where he was a member of the management team that successfully grew the company from a startup to a profitable public company with annual revenues of over $60 million. As Vice President of Software Development, he built the software team in US and India , delivered reliable, scalable web-based software that handled over 3 million transactions per day and delivered key features including web-based mobile location services and real-time wireless messaging capabilities. As Vice President of Pocket Applications, he successfully spearheaded the initiative to expand @Road's applications into the new GPS phone market. Prior to @Road, Mr. Puranik served for 7 years at Oracle Corporation. As Director of PL/SQL and interMedia Text, he managed development, release engineering, product management and technical marketing, and delivered major customer features and performance improvements. Before joining Oracle, he was a senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds 2 patents with 2 more in the application process. Puranik has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.