What is Entrepreneurship: Speaker Biographies

We are excited to start our first class: "What is Entrepreneurship?" As promised, we've posted the biographies of our speakers. We'll post more information as it becomes available.

• Ash Ashutosh: Partner, Greylock Partners

Ash is a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners. While being a recognized leader in the storage industry, Ash’s areas of interests include semiconductors, systems, storage, software and utility and cloud computing. As a serial entrepreneur, Ash has over two decades of operational and strategy experience in founding, building and advising companies. Ash was the founder of three companies in technologies ranging from semiconductors, systems and enterprise software, each of which led their respective markets and had successful exits. He also worked for and has been a member of the board or the advisory board of several large and small technology companies. Prior to joining Greylock, Ash was Vice President and the Chief Technologist at the storage business unit at HP, responsible for strategy and development of next-generation data center technologies. He joined HP as a result of the acquisition of AppIQ, a company he founded in 2001 that became a leader in standards-built Storage Resource Management (SRM) software. Ash currently serves on the board of Delphix, a company developing radically innovative database management solutions. He is also a charter member of TiE Boston. Ash holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Penn State University.

• Rajesh Nair: Founder and Chairman, Degree C Controls

Rajesh Nair is the President, CEO and co-founder of Degree Controls, Inc. He bootstrapped DegreeC with $60,000 in 1997. Under his leadership DegreeC grew to a $13.5 million company in five years without any external funding. He has been involved with thermal management designs, products and services for the past 12 years. Rajesh has several patents in thermal sensing and control design. He was recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year, 2001 by the New Hampshire High Tech Council. Ernst and Young selected Rajesh as one of the Finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year, New England in 2002. Rajesh has a BS in Physics from Kerela University; BS in EE, and MS in Electronic Design from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and an MS in Manufacturing Engineering, U Mass, Amherst