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Bios
We both share the same birthday, which we found out after a few years of
acquaintance. This is a bit symbolic and it also explains why we, being so
different, have a lot in common and understand each other so well.
About Ravi
Ravi is a Managing Partner of Margosa Ventures that invests in early-stage start ups. Prior to founding Margosa, Ravi was a Managing Director
in charge of capital markets transactions at Quellos Group which is one of
the largest funds of funds investing in hedge funds. He was Director of
Portfolio Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, in the venture capital
division Intel Corporation. Prior to joining Intel, he was a Senior Vice
President at Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets, Inc., with coverage
responsibility for major corporations and institutional investors. He
received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Science. Ravi received his master's degree in Computer
Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his doctorate in
Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley. He
later joined Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he developed and worked on the
now commonly accepted parametric approach to portfolio management. Before
joining Sumitomo, Ravi was Director of the Financial Strategies Group at
Prudential Securities. Ravi has written seven books (three available in
Japanese) on various topics in finance including portfolio management,
risk management and derivative instruments. Ravi is married and a father
of one daughter and two sons.
About Alexei
Alexei Ustinov, the CTO of Jasmine Music Technology was born in 1957 near Lake
Baikal (Russia, Siberia). During school days he was into sports, technical
craft and music in piano-class. He graduated from Novosibirsk State
Technical University in 1981 as a radio-engineer and since then worked in
different positions in scientific research institutes and plants and was a
lecturer 1983 in Novosibirsk Conservatory on "Musical Informatics",
"Acoustics" and "Sound Engineering". In 1984 Alexei founded Novosibirsk
Computer Laboratory, which deals with hardware and software for electronic
music. He is the author of a number of articles and books on electronic
music-related questions, a participant of Russian and international
exhibitions, symposiums and seminars. His main interests are focused on
expressiveness of electronic music and on mathematical methods of
analysis, transformation and generation of music. As a musician he took
part in amateur music bands, recording studio sessions, arrangement of his
own and other authors' tunes. Released CD album co-authored with Ravi
Dattatreya, a number of musical works are available in the Internet in mp3
and MIDI formats. Alexei is married and a father of 3 sons.
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