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Management

Cordant's founders bring experience in IM as well as technology strategy and management.

Madan Aggarwal
Chairman and co-founder

Madan brings over 30 years of technology management experience to Cordant. With almost a decade of experience at IBM, extensive experience leading corporate strategy and IT strategy at large enterprises, technology startup experience (founding Pravak Cybernetics and Delpro, and then advising Flash Communications) and a long stint as VP of Operations at a Canadian engineering company, Madan brings strategic and operational depth to Cordant.

The core ideas behind Cordant's technology were conceived by Madan (who holds the Cordant patent applications to his credit). Madan is also known in the Seattle community for his insightful mentoring of technology startups and angel investing, through the North West Entrepreneurial Network, TiE and the Alliance of Angels.

Madan holds an M.B.A. from McGill University, an M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and a B.E. from the Delhi College of Engineering. He is also a certified Software Tester, and Database Tester.

Neeraj Chawla

Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Neeraj brings over a decade of technology and business development experience to Cordant. As Principal at Strategic Mirror Consulting, he started the strategy and business consulting practice, and prior to that held product management, business development and marketing positions at several companies in the e-commerce, wireless and embedded systems space.

At Expedia, he started a new business initiative targeting groups and led product management for packages and hotel business. At Toshiba, he led business development and product marketing for several products in the embedded networking space, and developed relationships with OEMs and distributors. Prior to Toshiba, he was with Cellular Technical Services, a wireless software company, and with Spry, a leading ISP and a pioneer of Internet applications.

Neeraj holds an MBA and MS from University of Washington.

Navneet Gupta
Director of Operations

Navneet brings over a decade of operations management experience to Cordant. Entrepreneurial by nature, Navneet has been involved with a number of start ups involving world class technology; has been responsible for building infrastructure from scratch, and teams of professionals with diverse skills and levels of responsibility and has managed manifold growth in their operations.

Navneet holds an M.B.A.(Operations) from Dr. TMA Pai Institute, and Bachelor of Engineering from MIT, India.