Email: satya@newangelcapital.com
Satya Akula is seasoned investor and former President and CEO of AC Technologies, Inc. (ACT), an information technology company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.
AC Technologies, under Mr. Akula’s leadership, earned awards from Inc. Magazine’s 500, Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 500, Virginia Technology’s Fast 50 for 6 years in a row. AC Technologies Inc was one of the top 100 private companies owned by Asian-Indian Americans for several years in a row. Mr. Akula was the finalist for prestigious Entrepreneur of Year award for entire Washington area in 2002. Mr. Akula won the ASEI’s NCC Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2003.
AC Technologies finished the year 2004 with more than $60+M revenue run rate and 400 employees before he sold the company to PEC Solutions, a NASDAQ traded company. Until June of 2007, Mr. Akula was the President of ISS Sector, Nortel Government Solution, a subsidiary of Nortel Networks of Canada. Mr. Akula’s sector achieved prestigious SEI/CMMI Level 5 in 2006.
Satya holds a BS from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India and MS degrees in Engineering and Management from the University of Maryland.
Email: sridhar@newangelcapital.com
Sridhar is the founder, President and CEO of Paradigm Infotech Inc. He leads the company's strategic planning, business initiatives, high-end client relation, contract negotiations and corporate management.
Sridhar started Paradigm Infotech in 1998 with as little as 10 people and have grown the organization today to over 1,000 employees worldwide. Sridhar is primarily responsible for the firm's consistent & impressive growth rate of 100 % each and every year from inception.
As a testimony for years of restless efforts by Sridhar and his team, Sridhar was awarded “Young Entrepreneur 2007” by TANA; Paradigm Infotech was awarded “Inc. 500(2006, 2005)” and “Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Maryland (2007, 2006, 2005)”.
Before starting as an innovative entrepreneur with Paradigm Infotech, Sridhar was associated with IBM and Satyam Computers.
Sridhar is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds a Master of Science in Computers.