Based in San Francisco and Mumbai, MediaMelon is on a mission to create the foundations for next generation global media delivery. The leadership team has deep experience in deploying massively scalable network systems at Microsoft, Lucent, Digital Island, Pando, BackWeb, Macrovision, and UBS Warburg to name a few. Members of the MediaMelon team have previously played leading roles in IPTV, CDN, Networking, and Telecom industries.

Kumar Subramanian

Founder and CEO
Kumar has a combination of technology and finance skills. His experience includes M&A investment banking at UBS Warburg and corporate development/strategy roles at Lucent and Digital Island. Prior to his MBA, he was an engineer at IBM and published research papers in semiconductor device physics. Kumar holds a B.Tech in EE from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Duke University. You can reach him at kumar[at]mediamelon.com

David Buckland

SVP, Business Development
David has over 15 years of experience in building innovative & successful technology companies. David has led sales, business development and product management at Pando, DigitalFuel, BackWeb, Tribe, and Picatel and has been responsible for bringing Internet applications and services to over 30 Million consumers and 50+ Fortune 500 enterprises.

Sukesh Pai

VP of Engineering
Sukesh is responsible for leading the engineering team. Sukesh has 10 years prior experience at Microsoft in a variety of demanding engineering roles, and played important roles in Microsoft.s IPTV and cable VOD initiatives. He won the Microsoft Excellence Award in 2002 and is the author of several distributed routing protocols and patents. Sukesh holds a BS in CS from IIT Bombay and an MS in CS from University of Maryland at College Park.

Vishal Nagota

Engineering Manager (Mumbai)
Vishal is responsible for developing several key components of the MediaMelon system and for leading the engineering team in India. Vishal holds a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.

Pratik Roychowdhury

Director, Marketing and Business Development
Pratik manages marketing and business development activities for MediaMelon. Pratik has over 8 years of experience and has assumed various roles within hi-tech including product development at NetScaler/Citrix Systems and technology investment banking at UBS Investment Bank. Pratik holds a B.Tech in EE from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor.