Board of Directors

Vijay Angadi: is Managing Director of Novastar Funds. He has over twenty years of experience in investing in India. He has led the highly successful small cap public company investment activity for Novastar Funds since late 2001. The Novastar Funds invest in profitable publicly listed small cap companies that have the potential to emerge as leaders.

Vijay is a pioneer of the venture capital industry in India and was part of the founding team of the first venture fund in India, ICICI Ventures. ICICI Ventures was sponsored by ICICI Bank, one of the largest banks in India. He worked for 8 years with ICICI Ventures and served as the Group Head of investments and member of the Investment Committee and oversaw the investment and substantial divestment of the first two funds. He served on the Boards of a numerous private and public companies.

Vijay later served as Director of venture firm, ICF Ventures which invested in seed stage companies.

Vijay lectures widely on small cap investment, leadership, company building and ethics in business. He serves on the Governing Board of Strategic Management Forum of India. He is also involved in numerous community projects including providing scholarships to underprivileged meritorious students.

Vijay is an engineer from National Institute of Technology (Surathkal, India) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Robin Farkas: Robin is a prominent private investor. He is an MBA from Harvard Business School and has been investing in India for nearly twenty years. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Alexanders Inc. a NYSE listed company.He has served on the Boards of a number of private and public companies and private charities and has served as chairman of the multibillion-dollar New York State Dormitory Authority.

Charu Sarathy: Charu holds a postgraduate degree in engineering and is Director of Street Edge Investments, US. The StreetEdge funds manage a wide range of asset classes including emerging market and private equity investments. Prior to StreetEdge, Charu cofounded Mecon Inc, which was subsequently acquired by General Electric.

Board of Advisors

Vasu Devan: is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and has a post-graduate degree from Wayne State University. Vasu founded Mecon Inc., a US based health care information systems company in 1985. He subsequently took the company public, ran it as a NASDAQ listed company until 2000 when General Electric acquired it. Vasu co-founded StreetEdge Investments, a diversified and closely held investment management firm with a portfolio of investments including private and public company investments and real estate. Vasu serves on the Board of several late-stage private companies. Prior to founding Mecon, Vasu was a consultant with Booz Allen, an internationally known management-consulting firm.

George A. Kellner: George Kellner is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kellner DiLeo & Co., LLC. Mr. Kellner has been in the arbitrage business for 25 years and founded KDC Merger Arbitrage Fund, LP in 1981. Prior to Kellner, DiLeo & Co., Mr. Kellner was a Senior Vice President and founded the arbitrage department of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Before commencing his arbitrage career, Mr. Kellner was a Vice President and House Counsel of the Madison Fund where he had broad responsibilities as a financial analyst and portfolio manager. Mr. Kellner began his professional career as a securities lawyer at the Wall Street law firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn and holds a B.A. (Trinity College), a J.D. (Columbia Law School) and an M.B.A. (New York University's Leonard Stern Graduate School of Business). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a former Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance at the New York University.