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| WHO WE ARE |
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Group Chiasma's
team members and advisors have
extensive experience in bringing
new ventures to life and in
creating value through
transformative change. We have
held leadership and founder
positions within both start-up and
established companies across a
range of technology and service
businesses. We seek to engage with
game-changers, adventurers,
innovators, artists, and
entrepreneurs to collaborate
toward promoting personal and
planetary health, leveraging
knowledge services, and generating
innovation breakthroughs.
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Raj Malhotra
Raj is CEO and Founder of
Group Chiasma. He brings a 20
year record in corporate
development and innovation
management. He was previously
Chairman of Heartland Information
Services and CEO and Founder of
Spryance Inc., before merging this
medical document management
company with Heartland. Prior to
Spryance he was Managing Director
of HLM Ltd., a privately held
business services and real estate
development company in India. Raj
also served in senior technology
innovation management roles with
Polaroid and DEC. He has an MBA
from the Kellogg Graduate School
of Management at Northwestern
University and BSEE and MSEE
degrees from Cornell University.
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Suren Rasaily
Suren is an accomplished senior
executive with extensive
experience building and leading
successful service-based
businesses in Asia. He was most
recently Executive Vice President,
Corporate Development for NIIT
Ltd., the leading IT education
& training company in Asia
Pacific. During his 18 years with
NIIT, Suren held various
management roles throughout the
company's Indian operations and
was responsible for overseas
expansion for several businesses
including its new BPO Services
business launched in 2002. Suren
received his PGDM (MBA) from
Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad and a BS from North
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Dilip Deshmukh
Dilip brings more than 25
years of diverse operations
management experience with a
particular focus on process
development, revenue and
profit optimization and
productivity enhancement.
Prior to joining Group
Chiasma, he was
VP,Operations for Spryance
India, a leading health
information management BPO.
Prior to Spryance, he was
AVP, Operations for
Persistent Systems, a
leading IT outsourcing
vendor. Dilip also held key
operations management roles
at Xerox Modicorp - a major
multinational that provides
office automation products.
Dilip completed post
graduate studies in
Materials Management at the
University of Bombay and has
a Bachelors in Commerce from
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Russell Franks
Russell
has a successful track record of
leadership with both start-ups and
established companies. Prior
experience includes Senior Vice
President of Spryance Inc., a
leading India-based supplier of
medical transcription services to
US and European clients, and
senior management roles with Lycos
and Viatel, both publicly traded
technology-enabled service
businesses. Previously, he was a
management consultant with
McKinsey & Company and a
venture capitalist with NatWest
County Ventures. Russell has an
MBA from Harvard Business School
and a BA in Law from Oxford
University. |
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Christopher
Remus
Chris Remus brings nearly
15 years of operational and
engineering experience in
both entrepreneurial
ventures and management
consulting firms to Group
Chiasma. His experience
spans a wide range of
technologies and has
deployed and operated
revenue generating and
profitable solutions in
emerging markets through the
implementation of innovative
solutions, in established
and emerging markets. As a
management consultant, both
independently and with Booz
Allen Hamilton and Deloitte
Consulting, Remus has
provided trusted advice to
commercial enterprises, both
Fortune 500 as well as
start-up’s, as well as
large Federal Government
Defense and Civilian
agencies on the operational
capabilities required, from
people, process, and
technology perspectives, to
enable predictable,
reliable, and stable service
delivery, through efficient
and innovative approaches.
Remus has also advised
similar clients at the CxO
levels on technology
strategy. He holds a
Bachelors of Science in
Electrical Engineering from
The Pennsylvania State
University and has completed
Masters-level Business
Administration coursework at
the University of Maryland’s
Smith School of business.
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Lucinda Willan
After graduating from
Cambridge University with a
bachelors in Art History, Lucie
has worked in the media and arts
industry. Her creative stints have
included publishing, curating, and
media development roles with
Christie's, the English Heritage,
BBC Channel 4, and Graff.
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Robert Bier
Rob founded and led three
specialty lending businesses in
the UK and the Netherlands.
Previous to his entrepreneurial
activities he was Managing
Director of Kensington Mortgages
and prior to that led the European
Financial Services practice for
Monitor Company, the global
strategy firm. Rob has an MBA from
the Harvard Business School and a
Bachelors in Engineering from
Stanford University.
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Charles Cella
Charles is collaborating with Group Chiasma on IP aggregation plans. Charles co-founded GTC Law Group — a highly regarded US patent strategy firm -- and is a recognized thought leader and leading practitioner in the patent and licensing fields. Prior to GTC, Charles founded and was CEO of BountyQuest, an Internet marketplace for information relevant to the strength, validity or applicability of patents and for which he recruited investments from Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly, among others. Charles holds a A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Stephen
Vozella
Steve builds organizations
for highly effective communication
and responsiveness. His philosophy
of 100% ‘Client Loyalty’ is a
major factor toward his success.
Steve achieved great results at
Fidelity Investments, First Data
Corporation, and start-ups as an
executive and CIO. He has
experience in contact centers,
client service, information
systems, and operations in
healthcare, ecommerce, and more.
Steve improves the results of
organizations through people,
processes, and technology. He has
a BS in Management from Boston
College with studies in the
Executive MBA program at Louisiana
State University.
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Jayne Thorpe
Jayne advises Group Chiasma on financial and business models. As part of Ineum Consulting in London, UK, she routinely works with CFOs of multinational organizations, Private Equity firms and Public Sector clients on strategic business opportunities, especially in relation to transactions. Jayne is also the Financial Director of Kind Consumer, a new, innovative and socially conscious Consumer Healthcare business. She previously worked in Business Consulting, Business Modelling and Audit with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and with KPMG. Jayne is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has an MBA from Oxford University.
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Anil Harish
Anil is a sought after
counselor to major multinational
companies in India and Asia.
He specializes in corporate
transactions and is a recognized
authority on international
taxation, joint ventures and
collaboration. He serves on
the boards of several
multinational companies and is a
Partner at DM Harish, a leading
Mumbai, India based law firm.
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Rajen Shah
Rajen is an accomplished
technology architect and has an
exceptional record of achievement
building operating systems, server
systems, and application
infrastructure. He was most
recently CTO at Spryance where he
was also an investor. Prior
experience includes senior product
management at Microsoft and senior
technical design roles at high
growth CRM companies Scopus (sold
to Siebel) and Octane (Sold to
E,piphany). Rajen has a Masters in
Computer Science from Oregon State
and a Bachelor in Computer
Engineering from the University of
Manchester, UK.
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Wayne Gore
Wayne brings over 20 years
of experience in leading global
organizations and re-defining
corporate business models.
Previously, Wayne held leadership
roles in global consulting
organizations (Corporate Executive
Board | McKinsey & Co.) and
venture capital. He also led
professional services businesses
serving senior Global 2000 clients
in areas of strategy, performance,
and technology in addition to
experience in investment banking
at Goldman Sachs and corporate law
at Debevoise and Plimpton. Wayne
received his undergraduate degree
from Princeton University and
graduate from Columbia University
Schools of Law and Business.
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