Rahul Aggarwal, CEO and Co-Founder

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Rahul Aggarwal co-founded Arktan to address challenges that brands have in increasing real-time engagement and conversation with their audience on their Web properties. Rahul has steered Arktan as it has pioneered and deployed technology that enables UMG, NBC, Reuters and other brands to bring real-time Social Web content and conversation to their sites.

Rahul's prior experience includes innovating Internet Routing technologies and taking them all the way from inception to deployment in several of the largest Service Providers in the world. In his role as Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks he drove Internet routing, mobile, VPN and data center related technologies and standards across the industry.

He is the author of several Internet drafts and RFCs, holds many patents and is a sought after speaker in conferences. He received his B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and M.S. from University of Minnesota.

Srikanth Nagandla, CTO and Co-Founder

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Srikanth Nagandla is a co-founder of Arktan and also serves as the CTO. Arktan’s products reflect his shared vision for multi-screen social and real-time fan engagement platforms for brands, celebrities and publishers. He has been instrumental in converting this vision into products that are deployed across a variety of top celebrities and brands including Lady Gaga, XFactor, Discovery, USA Networks, etc., and publishers like Washington Post and Reuters. He is also involved in product and strategy at Arktan.

Previously, Srikanth has worked with a number of startups as an early engineer and helped build highly scalable real-time systems serving millions of users. He has also been involved in building and leading high quality teams both at early-stage startups like Jaxtr and large companies like Motorola. While at Motorola, he was instrumental in building mission-critical mobile applications that are currently deployed across the globe.

He had authored technical books on Numerical methods, Data Structures and Operating Systems and built immersive Virtual Reality systems for collaborative art during his Masters in Human Computer Interaction at University of Bremen, Germany.

Ralph Marx, V.P. of Business Development

Ralph brings all the wealth of his 25-year career to Arktan. In his 25-year career in Silicon Valley, Ralph has been tenacious about following early trends and nurturing those ideas into successful companies.

His first entrepreneurial effort involved taking an unused computer at a large San Francisco law Firm and programming a system to automate the tracking of millions of pages of documents. That led to creating Advocate Systems, Inc which became a market pioneer in this field and where Ralph gained broad expertise in sales, marketing and product development.

After a terrible experience buying some concert tickets Ralph created Acteva a company that was an early adopter of web based services, using the internet to break down the stranglehold of proprietary box office systems. Before being acquired in the year 2000, Acteva garnered thousands of customers and received widespread media coverage.

Acteva was acquired in 2000 which gave Ralph an opportunity to help other entrepreneurs as an investor, advisor, and consultant. He has been involved in fund-raising, strategic and financial planning, product development and deployment, marketing and sales and operational management for a very broad range of companies and ideas.