Jeh Daruvala

Jeh has 24 years of entrepreneurial, investment banking, product management, business/systems analysis and advisory experience in information technology at startups, Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, T-Mobile, TELUS, Avendus Advisors, Gateway Capital. Currently Jeh's primary focus is his role as CEO at Yactraq.com, an IPFD partner of $5 billion+ IntellectualVentures.com, the worlds largest patent bank. He is also a Member of the ICT & Extension Technical Advisory Panel at the Global Good Fund. Global Good is a collaborative effort between Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures. Together, we invent, develop, and deploy commercially-viable technologies that improve life in developing countries. Before migrating to Canada in 2002, Jeh played a key role in incubating Customer Asset, an India based IT infrastructure services venture that evolved into the $300 million, Firstsource Solutions. While working on Delsys, his first startup, Jeh sold the first-ever ethernet switch in India (Cisco). Jeh has a Masters in Management Studies (Finance) & a Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics) from Bombay University. He is also a lifelong manned spaceflight enthusiast and believer in technology innovation as the key driver of corporate and economic growth.