Board of Directors
Center for Venture Education, home of the Kauffman Fellows Program
- Thomas Darden,
Reliant Equity Investors
- Brian Dovey,
Domain Associates
- Daphne Dufresne,
RLJ Equity Partners
- Jason Green, Chairman Emeritus,
Emergence Capital Partners
- Ashish Gupta,
Helion India
- Steve Kaplan,
University of Chicago GSB
- Audrey MacLean,
Stanford University
- Susan Mason, Chairman,
ONSET
- Lisa Skeete Tatum,
Cardinal Partners
- Phil Wickham,
Center for Venture Education
Ashish Gupta is a member of Kauffman Fellows Class 7 and served his fellowship with mentor Vince Occhipinti at Woodside Funds in Redwood Shores, CA. Before joining the Kauffman Fellows Program, Ashish co-founded Tavant Technologies. He has been involved with several start-up companies in the U.S. and in India as an advisor, board member, and investor. They include Daksh offering CRM services, Jasper DA building EDA software, and Odesk building collaboration software. His previous jobs were at Amazon.com as a director of engineering, and at Junglee as VP of Engineering, co-founder and member BOD. Junglee was a pioneer in data integration technologies and the Application Service Provider business model. Ashish also worked as a senior technical contributor at Oracle Corporation and at IBMs Almaden Research Laboratory. Ashish has published in international conferences and has edited a book published by MIT press. Ashish holds a PhD in database technology from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold medal.