Key Management

Joe Purohit, Founder & CEO
Joe’s career spans over 25 years of experience in engineering and management positions at General Electric, AT&T, BP-Amoco, and several early stage software and technology companies. At General Electric (1979-84), he developed highly distributed, real-time protection and control systems for electric power utility networks. He then worked at AT&T’s Network Systems Division (1986-91) in strategy, planning and marketing to effect AT&T’s transition from a national monopoly to a globally competitive business. 

He joined Amoco in 1991 to grow the company’s fiber optic and photovoltaic (PV) businesses through acquisitions and new market development. Then from 1994-1999, while based in Moscow and London, Joe was country manager for BP-Amoco’s electric power business in Russia, Europe and India. In Russia, he was instrumental in winning Amoco’s participation in the largest ($900 million) Russian private sector power project. It became an exemplar for the restructuring of the national electric power industry in the Gore-Chernomyrdin Summits.

Joe received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical power engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India (1978) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY (1979), and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (1986). His language skills include three Indian languages, and German and Russian, both of which he could speak at the intermediate level at one time.

Outside Board of Directors

Ken Olson, Chairman of the Board
Ken Olson is a director of five San Diego Companies, both public and private. From 1984 to 1998, he was the chairman at Proxima, where he served as CEO from 1990 to 1998. Ken also serves on the boards of directors for Digirad (NASDAQ) and WD-40 Company (NASDAQ) and for two other private companies, Troxel Helmets and Santrio, as well as a venture capital firm, Express Ventures. He is a member of Tech Coast Angels and The Chairman's Roundtable and is an instructor on Corporate Governance at UCSD.

Dennis Clerke, Director
Dennis is a well-respected technology executive and avid entrepreneur. Most recently, he was CEO of Alignent Software, a venture-backed provider of collaborative roadmapping software. Before Alignent, he was a co-founder and President of Cardiff Software, a market leading provider of Business Process Management and content capture software. Dennis has been an investor, advisor or on the Board of several other software companies including MadCap Software, Mochila, eHelp and Dicom. Dennis received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Boston University.

Bob Slapin
Bob Slapin, Executive Director, San Diego Software Industry Council is an experienced attorney, an information technology executive and entrepreneur. He received his law degree from the University of Southern California, then went on to practice internationally and attended Kyoto University, School of Law, Kyoto, Japan.  He also practiced law in the Republic of Zambia.  Upon returning to the United States Mr. Slapin founded a successful software company which was acquired by Encyclopedia Britannica.  Mr. Slapin has participated in several entrepreneurial technology companies. His experience gives him a unique perspective on policies and issues shaping the software and information technology industry.

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