About Us
We're former CEOs, technology execs and business intelligence engineers. We know your situation, because we've been there. We know your frustration, because we've felt it.
Now, we've done something about it.
Today’s business equation has too many variables to be solved by yesterday's solutions. For public utilities, process industries and all critical infrastructure segments that must deal with real-time data, in massive volumes, from multiple sources and across geographies, 24/7, the challenge to capture, combine and distill data into intuitively meaningful and immediately actionable information is overwhelming. Reliability is at risk, as is public service, emergency response, profit, safety, efficiency, investment and reputation.
Frankly, the technology necessary to tackle this challenge has simply not been adequate. There has been no enterprise caliber solution to effectively manage high volumes of location-based, performance data in an intelligent space-time visualization context.
Until now. We built it. There is nothing else like it in the market.
The Team
Mark L. Feldman. Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Space-Time Insight, Mark L. Feldman is responsible for the company's overall strategic direction. Formerly the Senior Vice President of Strategy at Virsa Systems, Mark formulated product and market strategy and implemented product acquisitions and partnerships with some of the largest professional service firms in the world. After negotiating the SAP acquisition of Virsa Systems, he became a Senior Vice President in the Product & Technology Group at SAP Labs, tasked with formulating strategies to market the SAP product portfolio to CEOs and CFOs. Earlier, Mark was a partner and global practice leader for merger and acquisition consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In his over 25 years experience in international mergers and acquisitions, he worked with such diverse global corporations as Adobe Systems, Microsoft, Barclays Group, DaimlerChrysler, Hewlett Packard, Pearson plc, Alcoa, JDS Uniphase, Global Crossing, McDonnell-Douglas and Goodyear. As president of the Rubicon Group, a merger and acquisition consultancy, and co-founder of Rubicon/Pacific Trading, he specialized in cross-border transactions, particularly between the US and Asia. Mark is a frequently quoted speaker who has addressed audiences throughout the world on industry transforming events. His best-selling book on accelerating mergers and business transitions, "Five Frogs on a Log", has sold over 63,000 copies and remains a business favorite in six languages.
Krishna Kumar
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
As Founder and CTO of Space-Time Insight, Krishna Kumar leads vision and strategy for the Space-Time Insight suite of products. He pioneered the innovation behind Space-Time Insight’s Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS) that analyzes, correlates, and geospatially visualizes data from multiple data sources and enables initiation of preventive action from a geospatial screen. He is regarded by leading energy companies as a thought leader in real-time, situational intelligence and high-context visualization of geospatial analytics. Krishna is a popular speaker at tradeshows and conferences worldwide. He has been recognized by leading organizations for his vision and innovative spirit. As a proponent of green initiatives, he has stimulated thinking on energy reliability, balancing renewable and conventional energy resources and sustainability in the supply chain. Krishna formerly led the SAP practice at Ness Technologies, one of the largest SAP implementation companies in Israel. In this role, he was responsible for the technology roadmap and business generation for the high, growth SAP practice. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of e-Commerce solutions at Intelligroup. Krishna also contributes time to non-profit organizations that wish to use geospatial visual analytics to help solve deep rooted social issues like human trafficking, world poverty and the spread of disease.
Quentin Grady
Senior Vice President
As Senior Vice President, Quentin Grady is charged with a range of critical responsibilities, including building and leading a global sales force, scaling global delivery capability, devising channel strategy and providing deep domain expertise in the formulation of corporate strategy for critical infrastructure sectors, like electric power, water, oil and gas, transportation and telecommunications. Quentin brings more than 25 years experience in the utilities and energy industries. He has been instrumental in helping CIOs and division executives within the energy & utilities industry select the software solutions that provide the greatest value to their organizations. Before joining Space-Time Insight, Grady was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle’s Tax and Utilities Global Business Unit. Prior to Oracle, Grady was Executive Vice President and General Manager, Americas for SPL WorldGroup, the leading provider of customer care and billing solutions for the utilities industry, acquired by Oracle in 2006. Grady earlier held senior management positions at Measurex Corporation, Elsag-Bailey and TAVA Technologies, following a commission as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.
Kaval Kaur
Chief Financial Officer
As CFO of Space-Time Insight, Kaval Kaur is responsible for all finance and back-office operations. Formerly the Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of Virsa Systems, she directed its back-office operations from its beginnings in 1996 till its acquisition by SAP in 2006. Filling critical roles in finance, contracting, compliance and administration, she provided the stability that contributed to Virsa's rapid growth trajectory and consistent profitability. Prior to Virsa Systems, Kaval was an Audit Manager for Seiler and Co., a California regional accounting, tax and audit firm, where she had key audit responsibility for several large multinational corporations. Kaval holds a bachelors degree in Commerce from Bombay University and is a member of AICPA and the California State CPA Society. She speaks regularly at local and national events and has addressed CFO roundtables throughout Asia. She is an active, charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs organization and a convener of TiEcon 2007, their annual conference on entrepreneurship.
Raj Gupta
Vice President, Engineering
As Vice President of Engineering, Raj Gupta manages the Space-Time Insight development team. Raj has 20 years experience in managing development organizations and building successful, innovative, scalable, and secure enterprise software products. Prior to Space-Time Insight, Raj worked for 15 years at Oracle. At Oracle, Raj was Senior Development Manager and Architect of security and collaboration products, including a focus on provisioning, meta directories, LDAP, email and workflow. Previously, Raj architected and managed development of sophisticated image-based check-processing systems for fortune 100 customers. Raj has extensive experience in managing large, geographically distributed teams including offshore development, as well as extensive experience working with partners and customers. He is an experienced leader of the full development life cycle, including architecture, functional specifications, design, implementation, successful product rollouts, training, and customer support. Raj holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering.
Chinni Ranganath
Vice President, Solutions
As Vice President, Solutions, Chinni Ranganath is responsible for defining, shaping and positioning market ready solutions based on the Space-Time Awareness Server and Space-Time composite solutions. His solution development and implementation responsibilities enable strong understanding of the customer and channel requirements necessary for a consistently successful product offerings. His work with customers in energy utilities, oil & gas and other key sectors has ensured the evolution of a strong, singularly differentiated and powerful product suite. Prior to Space-Time Insight, Chinni was Senior Director, Business Intelligence, for Lanco Global Systems, a full service technology consulting company, delivering technology-driven business solutions. Chinni holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Bachelors degree in Electronics.
Investors
Start-up Farms Investors Inc. (SUFI) provides early-stage venture capital, physical and back-office infrastructure, professional guidance and mentoring to start-up companies developing software solutions and web services. SUFI is headquartered in Fremont, CA.
Opus Capital is a venture capital firm with more than $1 billion capital under management, investing in committed, high integrity entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. The team has participated in the successful outcomes of more than 80 companies (including 50 IPOs) in the U.S. and in Israel. Opus Capital is headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, CA.
