Satish Patel, President

Satish’s career began more than two decades ago as a CPA, conducting audits for small and mid-sized firms, advising their business owners on financial and accounting issues, buying and selling decisions as well as business valuations. He was later certified as a Financial Planner and joined a software start-up as its Chief Financial Officer. He was responsible for all the financial aspects of the company and also spearheaded human resources, information technology, internal operations and tax planning issues. He played a crucial role in expanding the company’s operations to 4 other countries and increasing sales to $10 million+. Within his tenure, he also engineered several key financial initiatives, raising venture capital and securing angel financing. The company was eventually acquired by a publicly traded company.

Satish has a degree in Management from MS University in Baroda, India and a degree in Accounting from California State University at Fullerton, USA. He is a member of International Business Brokerage Association (www.ibba.org) and a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs Boston chapter (www.tie-boston.org). He actively contributes to community development through his participation in non-profit organizations.

Kirit Patel, Founder Director

Kirit has a Ph.D., MS and BE degree from Manchester University, England along with having an MBA degree from the elite London School of Business. He has years of business and technical expertise of founding multiple companies in the business and technology arena.

He was the Founder and CEO of Smart Storage Inc, a software company, now part of EMC that specializes in providing archiving software solutions to enterprises. Prior to that, Kirit was the founder and CEO of Gutenberg Systems, a company that provided device software to large OEM manufacturers such as JVC and Sony. He has also worked as the vice president and general manager for Lotus Development Corporation's Publishing division that delivered financial and business information databases. He also co-founded Datext, the first commercial publisher of information on CD-ROM.