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About us: Executive Biographies

The DG2L Executive Team has an accomplished background in New Media industry, participating as key roles to define international standards for digital multimedia (ISO/IEC, MPEG-4). Our technical staff includes some of the world’s top experts in the areas of MPEG systems and implementation, digital signal processing, synthetic media compression, multimedia access terminal design and content creation as well as digital media authoring.

Executive Biographies

  • Sanjay Gaikwad - Director
  • Ankur Sheth - Chief Executive Officer
  • Tapesh Sinha - Managing Director - Manufacturing Operations
  • Pat Maley - Board Member
  • Raj Shah - Board Member
  • Ashish Sanghrajka - Board Member

    Sanjay Gaikwad Director

    Mr. Sanjay Gaikwad is a qualified Engineer and has a Masters Degree in Business Management from Mumbai University. He started his own business initiative in 2003, after a rich and broad spectrum of corporate experience spanning over 15 years. He was the key person behind the modernization of Zee Group a(one of India's largest media companies), His real success and entrepreneur vision was distinctly visible when he conceived the idea of online lottery and successfully operationalised 'Playwin' - India's first online lottery, as Chief Operating Officer. Today he is the driving force behind the Valubale Group of Companies

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    Ankur Sheth – Chief Executive Officer

    A. K. Sheth serves as Chief Executive Officer of DG2L. He, together with Tapesh Sinha and Asif Khan, co-founded the company in 2001 with a vision of making digital entertainment a reality with breakthrough products that exceed industry standards with pricing that is without comparison. Prior to DG2L, Sheth was CEO and President of the iSystem group of companies. He was also founder of Channel2C Technologies Ltd., a content aggregation and streaming company. Sheth holds a double degree in Industrial Management and Management Information Systems from the University of Akron.

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    Tapesh Sinha – Founder, Board Member and Managing Director – Mfg. Operations

    Tapesh Sinha brings a track record of successful entrepreneurship to his role as Managing Director. His vision has helped India’s leading IT companies formulate and execute global sourcing strategies. Prior to founding DG2L, Sinha founded Acctel, one of the largest independent IT exporters to India. Sinha also founded Atesto Technologies, Inc., USA, which secured $20 million funding by a consortium of venture capitalists led by the SPROUT Group. The SPROUT Group is one of the oldest and largest institutional venture capital firms focused on emerging technology companies. Sinha holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Jadhavpur University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

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    Pat Maley – Board Member

    Pat Maley is a Partner with Wiegers Capital Partners, an Alternative Asset Management firm and he is focused on private equity investing in the middle market.  Pat spent 25 years in the high tech industry, most recently he was CEO of Dante Software completing venture funding and a successful acquisition of Dante by webMethods Inc. in 2003. Prior to Dante Pat was CEO/Co-Founder of Collaboratek an Internet Community infrastructure software and services provider. He was CEO of Client Systems Hewlett-Packard's exclusive channel partner for the HP e3000 where he recruited the management team that turned around the company.He started his career in sales and sales management with Intel Corporation; was a key sales and marketing executive on the team that built Sequent Computer Systems from start-up through IPO and over $250M in Revenue in 1992; after Sequent he was a marketing consultant with Geoffrey Moore's Chasm Group.  Pat has a BS from the US Naval Academy and a MPA from the University of Colorado. He has been active in the Colorado Software and Internet Association since 1997 and was Chairman from 1999-2001. He is a member of the Board of Directors of DG2L Technologies Pte. Ltd., KPA LLC, D’Lance Golf Inc., and KidsTek a non-profit foundation.

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    Raj Shah – Board Member

    Raj is one of Seattle’s dynamic entrepreneurs whose accomplishments have contributed significantly to the region’s economic and industrial development over the last 30 years.  He is internationally renowned in the retail and wholesale sectors of the apparel industry for continually defining the future direction of Young Men’s Sportswear.  Mr. Shah is Chairman and CEO of Shah Safari, Inc., and International News, global enterprises that specialize in the design & manufacturing of global trend setting sportswear brands including Mecca USA, Alphanumeric, Etienne Ozeki, Blue Guru, Raw Edge, Punch Apparel, DNM, and Reactor+.  According to an NDP study, 24% of the market share of Young Men’s woven tops in the US was controlled by Shah Safari in the 80’s and early 90’s.

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    Ashish Sanghrajka – Board Member
    Prior to co-founding BIO-IB, a boutique healthcare and technology investment bank, Ashish was a Vice President in the Equity Capital Markets Group at ABN AMRO Rothschild. He brings substantial experience in origination and execution of public market transactions in the Technology, Media and Healthcare sector. From 1997 to 2001, Ashish served as a Vice President at ING Barings where he was responsible for executing IPOs, Follow-ons, Pipes, Block Trades, and Private Equity issues. Previously, Ashish worked as an Associate in the Equity Research Group at Furman Selz, a research-driven investment bank bought by ING in 1997. Ashish received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Rochester and a certificate in Finance from the William E. Simon School of Business in 1994.
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