Ashraf Hameedi

Ashraf Hameedi is Venture Partner and Advisor with ePlanet. Mr. Hameedi has 18 years of banking experience, most recently with Goldman Sachs, and previously with Citibank, where he helped global companies value, structure, and finance $100bn of high value strategic investments, mainly in the emerging markets. Mr. Hameedi’s clients have spanned key sectors, including telecoms and media, power, energy, and FMCG, and included private sector companies, financial sponsors, and governments and their related enterprises. In his role as Head of Emerging Markets Structured Finance within Goldman Sachs’ European Finance Group in London, Mr. Hameedi led a number of landmark, award winning capital market financings. In his role as Head of Emerging Markets Financing Strategies within Citigoup’s Corporate and Investment Banking team in London, Mr. Hameedi advised a number of emerging markets based, transformational growth companies to help them manage through their most challenging growth stages, including advising on the important issues of capital structuring, value optimization, and financial risk management. He has led deals and advised clients in Asia (Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia), the Middle East (Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt), Russia, Poland, Turkey, and Africa (South Africa, Nigeria). Mr. Hameedi is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mohanjit Jolly

Mohanjit Jolly is a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He has spent the last ten years working with and investing in technology startups. Most recently, Mohanjit Jolly was a Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm. While at Garage, Mohanjit worked with over 30 companies, including LeftHand Networks, PureSight (BCGI), Jibe Networks (CTRX), Media Publisher, Xora, Razz, Kaboodle and SimplyHired. Prior to joining Garage, Mohanjit was part of the strategic planning group at Mattel where he helped launch the Mattel/Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent several years in both engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems for both military and commercial use. While earning his M.B.A from the Anderson School at UCLA, Mohanjit helped launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in Southern California in conjunction with Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mohanjit earned a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, with a specialization in electric propulsion systems.

Monis Rahman

Monis is the Chairman and CEO of Naseeb Networks, Inc., a Silicon Valley new media company with offshore development offices in Lahore and Karachi. Naseeb Networks owns and operates Pakistan's largest jobsite (ROZEE.PK) and the Internet's largest Muslim social networking site (NASEEB.COM).  Mr. Rahman has previously founded and run several companies ranging from Internet startups to chip design consultancies. He has raised venture capital for two Internet startups in Silicon Valley, and has nine patents to his credit. Mr. Rahman started his career at Intel Corporation where he was a key member of Intel's microprocessor design team. He completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and did graduate work at Stanford University. He has been featured by numerous magazines and newspapers including New York Times, CNN, InfoWorld, Red Herring, Infoweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Spider.